@rickle1 isn’t the UNCSA audition on a Saturday or a Sunday in February? I believe all of their on campus auditions are on Saturday/Sunday. Have you managed to schedule a class visit on the Friday prior?
My D has scheduled a February audition and I did not see any mention of a class visit.
@bfamom I’ll have to ask D as she set it up. We are arriving on Friday so maybe that’s what she meant. The audition is on Saturday. It’s scheduled from 9-noon so I htink there is also a tour of facilities, info session, etc. She said we can likely see a show that night in downtown Winston Salem (put on by the theater group at UNCSA).
S attends Wake Forest about 15 minutes away so that will be a nice weekend to visit him as well.
Anyone heard back from fsu prescreens yet?
Hi @planner2
Welcome! I hope someone responds to your question. My D did not apply to FSU so unfortunately, I don’t have an answer for you.
There are quite a few people who are waiting to hear from FSU (for the prescreens) on the MT board. So maybe they haven’t sent their responses yet.
Thank you! As many have said, the waiting is the hardest part! 
I accidentally made this its own thread, but I should have just asked here. If an audition needs to be rescheduled, is it okay for parents to call and reschedule, or should the kid always do it. My kid’s phone doesn’t work well at school so it makes it inconvenient. TIA
@meohmyoh i have rescheduled a few schools with no problem. They have always been nice. It’s pretty impossible for these kids w school and after school activities.
I’ve also called with some scheduling questions- it’s completely impossible for my kid to reach east coast schools during business hours from the west coast, especially with rehearsals every day after school. Nobody has remarked about it, everyone has been super helpful.
Here is a write up on Foundational Training in College vs. Private Acting Studios … it is worth the time to read … and thank you again @Gyokoren for paying it forward!
That was interesting! Thanks!
Mom of a BFA MT 2023 student here chiming in…
Seems like yesterday that my DD was prepping for auditions, sending applications, etc. She is now a Freshman MT major. I will say enjoy the process. It’s crazy and hectic but goes fast. My DD auditioned at 3 schools but I know some who did 6-8 schools.
Everyone should take a look at West Virginia University. Their BFA Musical Theatre and BFA Acting programs are really top notch. Great faculty, supportive environment and the program’s reputation is on the rise. My daughter currently goes there and loves it. The GPA and SAT requirements are reasonable and the focus is more on the audition.
I know we are all busy (prescreens and early auditions). So I thought I would share some comments that I found helpful.
Good thing to keep in mind is each decision - each acceptance or rejection - is an independent decision. Meaning “just because” a school rejected/accepted you, means nothing about what the next school will/will not do. It’s easy in our brains to start extrapolating a trend from an acceptance or rejection. But one school’s decision has zero bearing on the next one’s.
Nos are going to happen…celebrate the passes and even the redirects!! My words of support are regardless of the number of prescreens passed, there are the non-prescreen schools where you already have auditions and those are where you can shine live and in person!!
We will all get through this!!
Just focus on the positive.
BAL to all of our kids!!!
This was posted on the MT board and is very important to understand …
This was from @soozievt
@WDWMom , you wrote:
…some schools will do EVERYTHING they can to get you to commit early.
Yes, some schools try to pressure students to commit early, but know your rights, as you don’t have to. I recall when my D had an acceptance to a well known BFA in MT program, we got a call asking if she was going to accept her scholarship (as opposed to asking if she was going to attend…um, clever, ha!), and I simply said that to accept the scholarship is akin to committing to attend, and she would be letting them know by the National Reply Date, May 1, as she had not yet heard from all her schools.
Please know your rights. The National Association for College Admissions Counseling’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices states:
The May 1 National Candidates Reply Date
a. Colleges must state the May 1 deadline explicitly in
their offers of admission and clearly indicate whether deposits submitted prior to May 1 are refundable
or non-refundable. Making a deposit refundable, however, still obligates a college to abide by the May 1 National Candidates Reply Date.
b. Colleges will honor their admission, scholarship, and financial aid commitments to students and will not adversely alter their offers prior to May 1 for candidates who choose not to reply until that date. Nor will they state or imply that candidates might incur such a penalty by waiting until May 1 to submit an enrollment deposit.
c. The May 1 deadline also applies to any academic major, institutional scholarship, or special program to which the candidate has been offered admission. Examples of special programs may include
honors programs and dual-enrollment graduate or
professional degree programs.
@WDWMom replied to my post to soozievt …
anastasiasmom wrote: »
@soozievt
So if your s/d receives a scholarship that requires a signature (not a merit scholarship that is automatic) and he/she signs that scholarship document then that would constitute a student’s acceptance to that program?
I just want to make sure I understand correctly. So many moving parts and so frustrating. Ughhh … I am going to have to go read up on all of this.
Yes…DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING! You have until May 1st for everything. ANYTHING that shows a commitment will be taken as such. Do not reserve housing…nothing.
The NACAC recently be made significant changes to its code of ethics that @anastasiasmom referenced above. Here is an article that discusses them: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/09/30/nacac-agrees-change-its-code-ethics
Thanks. That is a good article. It was a bit confusing to me so I had to go to the NACAC website to try to decipher exactly what they were intending to speak to in those changes.
This is what I found on their website
NACAC’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP) reflects the association’s long-standing commitment to principled conduct among professionals who support students in the college transition process from secondary school to postsecondary education and in the transfer process between postsecondary institutions.
Revised and approved by the 2019: Assembly
NACAC’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP) - September 2019
At its 2019 National Conference in Louisville, the NACAC Assembly voted to remove three provisions from the association’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP) that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) believes inhibit, to some extent, competition among colleges for students. The three provisions address offering exclusive incentives for Early Decision, recruiting first-year undergraduates who have committed elsewhere, and recruiting transfer students.
NACAC is currently under a moratorium of enforcing the CEPP, based on the DOJ inquiry. As this is still an active legal matter, and to honor the spirit of NACAC’s cooperation during the moratorium, NACAC’s legal counsel has recommended that the national Admission Practices Committee (and all affiliate Admission Practices Committees) not follow up on complaints for alleged violations of the CEPP.
Has anyone heard from the Chapman prescreens? Thanks.
Hopefully someone can answer this for you but looking at previous threads it seems to have taken close to 7 weeks before they released a decision on some of the prescreens last year.
@ThespianMitera Yes, my D submitted her prescreen and supplemental to Chapman 10/30 and received a pass on 11/4. This was for their BFA Screen Acting. Don’t know if it matters, but she had submitted her actual application 9/25 and they had already her SAT scores too.
Thanks very much. We just received word today, and S did not pass the prescreen. On to the next one…