How would a Jewish kid feel at Viterbo? Generally not concerned with religious based institutions, but Viterbo is quite small so I imagine (perhaps incorrectly) the optics and religious emphasis play a larger role than within a larger community (like Fordham or Dayton as an example).
Hi Everyone, I’ve been lurking but was really active a few years ago when we were in the throws of auditions. My D is in the junior company at UMN/Guthrie. For anyone attending callbacks, you’ll see her in a production while you’re there.
If anyone has any questions about the program, the campus, the school (I also went there), the Twin Cities area (we’re local) please let me know. I’m happy to help. BTW @intheburbs , you are so right - we do have winter here, but for the record it will be in the mid-40s this weekend! 
Anyone know when RCS will de doing decisions?
Good question. I hope someone can answer that. I have no direct knowledge of the school. Just wanted to share in case the information was helpful to someone.
@mkendell - I don’t have any knowledge about this year’s dates but over the last two years students who auditioned for RCS at Unifieds and were accepted / priority waitlisted got phone calls from mid to late February.
Glad you asked, I have this same question.
@ThenSheSaidIt welp, I am a Californian so anything below 50 is COLD! And it is 12 degrees in Minneapolis today! I admire the hearty folks who live there!
@intheburbs Ha! I will say, we have REALLY fresh air here. Yep it’s cold, but no earthquakes, no raging fires, no mudslides, just cold and snow in the winter, which just requires some preplanning if there’s a storm. Don’t tell anyone, but summers here are absolutely beautiful. 
S received a no within a week of NYC Unifieds. (And he felt great about the audition!)
@pink313 No, only callback invitees receive an email for Rutgers. If you are rejected it’s just a portal notification.
We received a lovely email from Rutgers for our… “NO”. Oh well.
@rickle1 @Back2B4 It would depend on your child and their comfort level with being one of very few Jewish people on campus. I wouldn’t say Viterbo is an overtly religious school (it requires a religious studies class and a few ethics seminars as part of the gen ed curriculum, but even so I would say my entire education felt pretty secular), but I do remember being in a gen ed taught by a Jewish professor my senior year who started the semester off by asking “raise your hand if you’ve ever met a Jewish person,” and I was the only person in a class full of 20-odd people (none of whom were in the theatre department) who raised her hand. Viterbo is in…small-town Wisconsin, and outside of the theatre department (which has a great diversity of background and perspective), the school certainly feels like a reflection of that (very straight, very Catholic, very white, lots of kids from rural WI).
@CanadianMTgirl Thank you for your answer and I appreciate you not trying to sugar coat reality.
@Loganator – The Acting and and the Design & Production auditions/interviews are completely separate. Good news for D&P - there are more spots than for Acting.
My son is a second year Acting student at UNCSA and loves it.
As always @CanadianMTgirl - your posts are very useful and helpful. Oftentimes on CC people want to gloss over the differences between BFA programs with the phrase “they’re all great” - and maybe they are, but they’re also all unique and part of each program’s uniqueness is the location, focus and population of the school itself. I so appreciate you “keeping it real”.
Thank you very much!
@CaMom13 Thanks! I went to Viterbo sight unseen (I auditioned at unifieds and couldn’t visit before I had to commit), and while I don’t recommend that to anyone, it made me fully believe in the importance of there being REAL information out there about programs. I think especially in theatre programs, more kids transfer than we ever hear about here on CC, which means that finding the right fit is SO tricky and there are so many nebulous things that could end up being deal-breakers, many of which you don’t even know until you’ve spent some time on campus.
Can anyone offer any insight about Baldwin Wallace audition for Acting? We received a letter saying that they will choose on the spot between the classical or contemporary monologue and there is a group activity. Seems more focus on this group activity rather than the monologue. Is there a mini interview too? Thank you
The students were divided into groups of about 10. Together those groups did a group movement session in a dance room. Afterwards they sat in a circle in the dance room for QA with faculty. They continued in that room and took turns doing a monologue in front of faculty and the other members of their audition group. They had counted off ones and twos… ones didntheir classical, twos did their contemporary. No individual interview.
@prarie thank you for the information and good luck !