<p>This is for everyone who has auditioned, to share their audition experience and to gage their audition. It would be extremely helpful if the people who have auditioned and made it into the program to help and share your experiences as well. This is really for support and for everyone to have a specific place to share our experiences.</p>
<p>My D auditioned on Jan 26th, and received her rejection letter last Friday. She had a wonerful, fun audition experience, and was extremely satisfied with her efforts that day. If you asked her today, what she would go back and change, she would confidently say, "not a thing". She is her own harshest critic, but she was satisfied that day with her audition "performance".<br>
She presented a very respectable resume that includes professional experience and nationally recognized awards. Her training to date, in all three areas: singing, dancing, and acting, would seem impressive to many, and she is proud of her various community service activities listed. She chose her audition attire carefully, and was confident in the way she presented herself. Her positive audition experience, combined with a respectable resume and polished appearance did not equal an acceptance.
I write this to encourage you not to over analyze your auditions. Many...MANY...wonderful, talented prospectives will be turned away from every program. The heads of these competitive programs have a very difficult job in choosing their incoming class from the hundreds, maybe even thousands, of applicants. I honestly don't know what CCM is/was looking for, but they did not see what they were looking for in my D. She is not taking it personally, and I would encourage everyone else that experiences rejection to strive for that perspective.
I wish all of you the best in your audition experiences!</p>
<p>My D was the very first girl to audition in Dec.; she said the dance audition was fairly simply, short & fun (to Legally Blonde). She did her mono & songs, "Bubba" asked her some questions (why CCM and what she thought about the CCM-ers that performed for those auditioning). Even though the judges were very friendly, and she did ok (did not sing off pitch or went blank), D did feel that she really lacked energy in her audition and just went through the motions. I am not sure if it played a role, but we had wandered the campus extensively and D was just not really "feeling" the school, if that makes any sense, very contrary to some of the other places she auditioned at. She received a rejection letter about 10 days later and learned of, I think, 3 (may be 2) boys and 1 girl who made it in from that day.</p>
<p>Just for the record, D, like triplethreatx3'D, has a very nice resume that got her quite a few compliments and have led to interesting interviews (plenty of training, experience and awards). She really loved her material (got her accepted to other highly competitive programs) and felt very prepared. </p>
<p>I concur that it is really, really important to not over-analize as who knows what schools ultimately look for. We have seen and heard of extremely talented kids getting rejected, and what some may consider so-so kids making it through. </p>
<p>One "lesson" may be, keep that energy flowing :)</p>
<p>On the exact opposite side, I had every feeling from CCM that I did NOT AT ALL EXPECT.</p>
<p>I felt at home from the minute Aubrey Berg started talking.
His humor really fit mine, as did his training objective. I noticed he noticed me a few times catching the smaller jokes he made that passed others by, and being a bit quicker on the uptake with his humor. I felt like Bubba liked me a lot, and nailed every second of the dance. The woman was a bit less enthusiastic about me, but I don't know for sure. She seemed to be that way with everyone. </p>
<p>I was quite frazzled for my vocal and acting, but i feel like i pulled it together.
Exchanged a bit of witty repartee with the staff upon coming in, was polite, and able to show my professionalism with my monologue. Did that very, very well.</p>
<p>Then my CD didn't play.</p>
<p>..They were MUCH nicer than I would have thought they would be had I anticipated this. This kind of gave me a chance to talk to them a bit more and let them get to know me. I kept my cool, (which I am quite proud of) and ultimately it came down to singing a capella. I feel I did well. On a belted note, the dance woman (who's name escapes me, does anyone know the one I'm talking about?) who seemed very buried in her papers the whole time, looked up, and made a face of approvement, but I couldn't look too much, because I was afraid of losing focus and had no piano to keep me on track.</p>
<p>After I finished, I thanked them, apologized about my CD, we had a few laughs again.</p>
<p>Over all, a general, good audition. Not FLAWLESS material wise, but they got to see me. So if I am not what they want, I will accept that, because it's a genuine basis.</p>
<p>My own opinion.. is that this is MY FIT school.
Going into it I felt I had no chance and just needed to give it up.
Meeting them made me COMPLETELY change that.</p>
<p>We'll find out soon enough, I suppose.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I would totally agree that this will ultimately not help those waiting on PINS and NEEDLES to find out if they were in or not. CCM seemed EXTREMELY consistent with their feed back to all those auditioning.</p>
<p>I thought the dance was EXTREMELY simple in that it was the PERSONALITY that would shine through, and--as a male--I thought I was one of the strongest male dancers. </p>
<p>I neglected to put my name on my headshot or an e-mail on my resume, which I tried to apologize for when I went in, but Bubba didn't seem to care (which I immediately thought "Crap, he hates me").</p>
<p>My ballad was great, I think. It was my first time doing the entire 32 bars, and I could only mildly seem them at the bottom of my eyes, but I saw them FIERCELY writing back and fourth throughout my entire audition, passing back my resume to one another (which isn't the best resume, really, so I got nervous).</p>
<p>My uptempo could have been better as I could barely hear the CD playing and I went a bit too fast now and again.</p>
<p>After my audition Bubba asked me if I knew I'd have to start over as a freshmen, and I said, "I knew! Oh yes!" and then I explained my situation as a transfer student. He then gave me a little bookmark of all the website addresses and told me to "make sure I had all my material in" so he could process my application quickly.</p>
<p>Which I at first took as a good sign, but I found out a few of my friends got the same response, and the "why ccm" question had been pretty popular.</p>
<p>So... there really is NO way of knowing. Luckily they are a quick responding school, so we really won't have to wait too long.</p>
<p>We did the dance portion and that was fun, I thought I did very well. Then I talked to Lala for a little bit. Then we switched and went into the other room and Mr. Aubrey was walking to the room, so I walked up next to him and asked him how his day was. I was sooooo nervous!!! He talked to us. Then I had my audition. . . I did my monologue and then sang my two songs. Mr. Hess laughed at my one song. . .Then they said thank you. Mr. Aubrey handed me one of those card things and told me to make sure all of my stuff was in for UofC. Then he put his hand out, and I shook his hand and everyone elses. So I don't really know what to think.</p>
<p>I auditioned last year for CCM and remember the process quite distinctly. I arrived and found everyone stretching in preparation for the dance portion. Aubrey Berg sat us down and talked to us about the applicant situation (in regards to how many people were auditioning) and made everyone feel quite welcome. There were two other people there as well; a short woman with a high pitched voice who taught the dance audition, whose name escapes me. And another man in a suit. We danced to "Consider Yourself" from Oliver and it was quite fun despite the fact that I completely messed up the dance and the short woman made a point to tell me, "NO!" when I did something wrong. </p>
<p>I was the first male seen that morning after a long line of girls. They were very gracious through the process. They cut me off on my monologue because I went a few seconds over the minute limit. The songs went okay, I completely got off tempo in the up tempo. They asked me afterwards "Why do I think I should be accepted into CCM?" and of course I fumbled that response as well. All in all, it was a lack of preparation on my part. Moral of this story, BE PREPARED.</p>
<p>I auditioned on the 12th and was rejected. BUT i'm so happy I was, because looking back on the audition I could kind of tell that it wasn't the right fit for me. As much as I wanted to get in...something down deep told me that it wasn't the right place. Maybe that's why I wasn't nervous in my audition lol. The audition for me went extremely well, and looking back there are little things here and there I wish I would have fixed but not everyone is going to be perfect, otherwise why would you be auditioning. OVERALL the faculty was very nice and kind and I wish everyone the best of luck getting into this program!</p>