<p>Well, it’s not exactly that cut-and-dried. Class sizes per instrument vary from year to year, so one large senior class may be followed by even larger underclass classes; A tiny senior class may be followed by a large junior class, then tiny soph. and freshman classes, and so on. It’s really confusing, and varies year-to-year, because there are no guarantees of how many accepted kids will also decide to come to your college. For example, Oberlin only had one or two jazz bass players in the freshman class this year, and getting a bass player for your jazz combo throughout the entire program was considered a lucky thing because of an overall shortage of bassists. So Oberlin’s incoming class has many bass players: one could assume Oberlin made up for that shortage by accepting more bass players, offering more merit aid or whatever. The senior class is not the indicator (I don’t think). It’s the overall demand within a music program for the instrument, and this definitely changes from year to year.</p>
<p>Suggestions – schedule the auditions for schools at the top of your list first – if weather gets in your way you may have some fall back positions. To me, the way a school treats a student and his/her parents on audition day tells me a lot about the school, the degree to the school will treat the student as a person and the value the school places on its students.</p>
<p>Just a bump to page 1, for those heading into auditions.</p>
<p>[?Tis</a> the Season?Audition Season, That Is! From the Top Green Room](<a href=“http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/2011/01/05/‘tis-the-season…audition-season-that-is/]?Tis”>http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/2011/01/05/‘tis-the-season…audition-season-that-is/)</p>
<p>Originally posted by frenchhornplayr <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/1119047-audition-tips-next-year.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/1119047-audition-tips-next-year.html</a></p>