Quick question regarding private SCHOLARSHIPS for BFA-Acting majors: its late in the season, which is why it totally ****s that schools can’t get their FA act together sooner, but does anyone reading this today know where I could find a list of PA scholarships that might still be possible to apply for? Who knew that my D’s top choice school would not meet our EFC for FAFSA. I know I know…I totally failed at that research for this school. My bad.
Nearing the home stretch…waiting to hear from one more school, doing some visits and trying to piece together the financial puzzle pieces. Good luck to everyone no matter what stage of this game you are in…such a stressful time and hopefully by this time next month everyone will be able to breathe! We are way beyond wanting to/needing to seeing any type of lists on this board! I am convinced that my child, along with all of your children, will make the most of any program that they choose! It is what you make of it! I can’t wait to see where everyone ends up! 
@collegeadmiss I totally agree with @Noreplays2018. Read each and every college website regarding what they want for the monologues - print them out, make a killer spreadsheet - and then read it all again. Some will explicitly say no dialects. Some don’t say it and it shouldn’t matter. I personally, if I were an auditor, would love it. But I am not and as I near the end of my D’s admission journey (hallelujah!) - I still have ZERO understanding of what they are looking for.
@HopeinMT and @Fergie978 - I am sorry about the Pace results. I was really hoping for you. Hopefully NYU does the right thing and sends acceptances.
@“Jamieand Winthrop” - but the ACT has precalculus on it! I don’t think arts students (or most anyone) need pre-calc for their career or life skills. I use algebra occasionally and once tried and o use geometry in figuring out the length of one side of a corner desk in a catelog.
I thought NYU said they were 50% academics and 50% audition. This is not similar to NU. NU said that you need the same academic stats to get into theatre as the entire school (which is a 3.9+ GPA with super hard classes and a very high SAT/AcT plus the SAT-2 is “recommended”. The MT supplement simply gets your application ahead of other kids with those same super high stats.
Thanks @MomofJ5! I got over Pace rather quickly though. They piss me off about so many things anyway. I don’t put much into NYU. It seems everyone I know and their parents has applied!! I felt like Pace would send us a rejection…some schools I just feel the dread right before the e-mail/letter gets to us. Anyway, the best of all this college stuff is right after a good audition and before the decision because there is that wonderful HOPE we all cling to.
Remember wayyyy back when compiling the list of schools to apply to? There was such excitement and hope and daydreaming. That was the best time for me and my S. I am glad I had that time with him.
I love reading about all the journeys these kids will be taking. Now that schools are being selected and the end is in sight.
@collegeadmiss - I’d be worried about a monologue that’s part in Spanish (how will a non- Spanish-speaking auditor evaluate that?). Also- if he doesn’t look Hispanic, then he’s picking a monologue for a part that he wouldn’t likely be cast for. This is why monologue selection is so difficult. Yes- it needs to be something that your S connects with- but it also needs to work for the audition. I say keep looking.
@collegeadmiss - great advice from @Noreplays2018. However, some departments employ students to answer phone calls. I called a school last spring. The junior who answered my questions told me how it worked when she auditioned and wasn’t aware of some changes. We got everything straightened out before sending the prescreen video.
If you look at websites now, the details might still apply to the recent application season AND some may change their process for next fall.
Ultimately - all want monologues of varying length. Just take some time to select good pieces, make the spreadsheet, double check the school details and do it all earlier vs. Later.
And - as you’ve asked for advice, I’ll throw in: apply to 2 or 3 true safety schools - non audition are good idea. Apply early - ideally for a December decision. An early YES can calm the nerves for the roller coaster ride in Jan-April.
@collegeadmiss - I’d also advise lots of Fall auditions for BFA programs or BA scholarships- Case Western and University of Maryland- and I am sure others offer several FULL scholarships for drama majors with an early audition). It’s nice to get extra auditions in the Fall.
@Noreplays2018 it’s never to late to ask for more $$ regardless of what degree you’re wanting. Contact the FA office and plead your case
@Noreplays2018 -my husband and I were just discussing this. When you are applying, you can’t know what the aid/scholarships will be. You get all invested emotionally- then the bomb drops and they actually don’t give as much as you’d expect (and your kid when they perform in a main stage production- much like a professional athlete - will bring entertainment and recognition to their school).its a racket. But I don’t see how we can do much…
@HopeinMT , I was just thinking about that last night - reminiscing about all the hope and daydreaming at the beginning, the list of amazing programs my D would love to go to, all the wonderful possibilities…and then the fun of going to auditions and thinking she did well and feeling even MORE hopeful and full of anticipation.
But then all the rejections came in, and one by one, each lovely daydream was snuffed out, like a door slamming in her face.
So remembering the beginning is very bittersweet for me - we were so hopeful and had so much fun, but with no inkling of the heartbreak to come. (I know you can totally relate! It’s been a rough ride.)
Anyone elses kids apply to American?
@MomofJ5 Thank you! When I got the chance to step back, I realized the most excited time that I had was the moment that my D came out of the dance audition for Rider (still waiting to sing/act) and I asked her, “How did it go?” She said, “This was my favorite one!” After the evening before, she wasn’t even been excited or nervous because she didn’t think she would like the school!
We drove the 5 hours home from NJ without anything to talk about, since we couldn’t focus on if she got in or not, or what she did or didn’t do. We just talked about canceling her last two auditions (Baldwin Wallace, who already had picked 5 of their 6 girls at that time) and AMDA (her safety, which she obviously didn’t need).
Although we are technically still waiting for two other schools, I think her decision was made back in February, after that audition, when she was offered a BFA Acceptance before she walked out of the room.
Dealing with the rejection of other schools, I forgot about what was important - that one school where she would feel at HOME!
@emf1959 We applied to American. S was accepted to the school however, we never went to audition for them. ran out of time 
@Fergie978 - Wow! I LOVE that story. That happy ride home will be a memory you’ll remember for a long time. My S wouldn’t tell me much at the time, but he had a code word for whether he didn’t bomb the audition. When he used that word, there was tremendous joy visible all over his body. It made me so happy.
@MomofJ5 “tremendous joy visible all over his body” These are moments that I will hold onto in my heart whether my S was actually accepted into a program or not. The pure joy in those moments is what validated this crazy process. We too had a little code of a quick thumbs up or down. I never saw a down because my S knew he had done his best and was happy that he had made it though another one!
@Fergie978 Your story made my morning!
Perhaps BoCo will be releasing soon. Noted that their web portal is down.
@collegeadmiss if being Hispanic is a big part of his identity and the language is naive to him then you may want to look more into it, if the colleges he’s applying to allow for a partially bilingual monologue.
I think that Jane the Virgin has done an amazing job of bringing in Latino actors of every look… I didn’t realize at first that the main character’s original boyfriend was also Latino until his character started interacting more with the others, to my untrained eyes he had appeared European. Casting is starting to open up more Latino roles to true Latinos who don’t have the same looks as we’ve been trained to expect in tv and film,… so even if it’s not in his monologue, keeping up with the language and culture may help open up other roles to him in the future.
And the waiting never ends…after going through this process 4 years ago I thought we would never have to go through it again…well, my daughter has sent out over 20 applications for apprenticeships, internships and fellowships. We wait, wait wait…