<p>Thank you for the info! I feel better already!!
Rider let him schedule even without the transcripts, but they are needed
to be admitted plus the audition.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Vent here! I am going absolutely nuts trying to keep track of all the applications (college and theatre), transcripts, SAT scores, recommendations (academic and artistic), resume, headshot, essay (college and theatre), and miscellaneous other things. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just a few colleges, but we have 12 audition schools. The non-audition ones are a piece of cake! And we haven’t even gotten to the pre-screen portion yet! Arghhhhh!</p>
<p>My mantra is “Just a couple more weeks and I’ll be done!”</p>
<p>I know I’m preaching to the choir here. 
Thanks for letting me vent.</p>
<p>I know what you mean! Even though I’m basically computer illiterate (other than the Internet), I had to find a way to make a spread sheet for all of this info. </p>
<p>That has helped tremendously. I’ve got columns for the app, recommendation, transcript, SAT, pre-screen, audition date, login info and stuff like that there. My D has an email just for college stuff (thanks CC), and I have a huge binder (plus folders on the computer) that contain info about each school’s program, printouts of confirmations of reservations and receipts (I’m still old school with some things. You never know when there’s going to be a computer glitch).</p>
<p>With all of that, I still walk around in a circle asking myself, “Wait, did I already do…?”
Ugh!</p>
<p>But on a good note, she does already have three academic acceptances, so we’re doing something right!</p>
<p>Yes, now you know it is really true, it’s an order of magnitude more complex than the typical college application experience, which is daunting enough. </p>
<p>I bet you have also found that if you vent to parents of “regular” students, they will look astonished and reproachful and say that their own child is doing everything, they wouldn’t dream of getting involved except for nagging.</p>
<p>Ah, Prodesse, I know a lot of parents of “normal” applicants who still talk about where “we” are applying… </p>
<p>For everyone struggling with the Common App or convinced that your high school guidance counselors aren’t doing it right, here’s a quick description of the problems they’re having: <a href=“The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos”>The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos;
<p>You’re not alone!</p>
<p>Question: Is anyone else forgetting ordinary things? Like the other day I just knew I had to do something and spent at least 10 minutes trying to remember what I had JUST said I had to do. It’s even affecting the daughter and she feels like she’s losing it. I said “our brains are just cluttered with college stuffs!”</p>
<p>And the MT parent who was all excited about getting out the first TWO colllege applications last weekend?! WHAT?! HUH?! I…I…just…can’t even imagine!!! I’ve been counseling senior theatre parents at her PA school. THEY DON’T HEAR ME THO!!! LOL</p>
<p>I get that “What the heck” look from “normal” applicant parents. They couldn’t understand why he applied so early, why so many and why I was stressed about it. </p>
<p>I’m shocked at how many of S’s MT friends aren’t even as close to prepared as he is. They all need this site…</p>
<p>I wonder how many applicants audition and don’t follow the rules, don’t have their music prepared etc. It would be interesting to know how many are totally prepared vs how many didn’t seem to do much research at all.</p>
<p>From what I read on the auditioning for college blog (thanks to the parent for the URL to that blog that became my latest obsession yesterday), lack of research does not go unnoticed at auditions. That’s comforting.</p>
<p>I just emailed his Guidance Counselor and asked her to fax his transcripts to his schools, so much for my plan yesterday of being patient. ;)<br>
I did receive a nice email in return saying “it’s nice your on top of things!”</p>
<p>We’ve been on several MT college tours recently, and there have been kids in the group who are very obviously WAY behind our kids. Asking really basic questions that you and I have dealt with months ago. (ie…What kind of songs should I pick out?) Really?</p>
<p>^^ I guess I should have said that OUR KIDS have dealt with months ago… little slip there! *wink</p>
<p>^^REALLY?! I keep saying that my daughter is at a performing arts high school and her classmates are FAR behind her–haven’t applied, have no material picked out, etc. The juniors have noticed that she seems to be on top of things, so the serious ones are going to her right now for advice and asking lots of questions. It’s good to know other students at the school will benefit from her experience.</p>
<p>lol, SU88BFA. Early on in my daughter’s college quest we went to an MTCA parent panel, where parents and several of the coaches were giving advice and tips. One of the things that really stuck in my mind was, “WATCH YOUR PRONOUNS! This is your child’s life, not yours!” Hard to remember sometimes when you are in the thick of it, but it was a mantra that I repeated to myself repeatedly while going through it. And actually, still do!</p>
<p>Has anyone else found as your S/D goes through this MT process that new or different requirements pop up as they (try to) complete their applications (or you help them complete them, doing thing that are non-artistic or basically ministerial but that’s a different thread…)?
D’s high school has a very specific system of how they want transcript and recommendation requests to go through their office and through the teachers so before she actually started hitting the submit button on some of her schools, she (and I) combed the college’s websites and the common App. Site and the MT departments to see what was required by each school (and why can’t the requirements be at least somewhat standard?!! But that’s a rant for another thread perhaps), made up a list of which schools needed recommendations from who (artistic vs. Academic) and how many recommendations per school, then she wrote a list of which teachers/directors she was going to as to write those recommendations, made up the school required packets for the teachers and guidance counselor (who cannot understand why a student with her grades is applying to 16 schools - she obviously attends a public high school not a PA school). Then she handed all of those packets in last month and got the process going but this month as she has started to hit that submit button she has found that some of the schools (or the MT department from that school) wanted that recommendation submitted online or mailed rather than brought along to her audition, want an extra academic recommendation or an extra artistic recommendation so now she has to go back to teachers that she has already talked to and ask for just one (or three) more recommendations.
Some how this will be all my fault as she is “embarrassed” to have to go back to teachers and ask for more recommendations or recommendations in a different form (or with a separate college specific form) or sent to a different person.
I’m actually wishing I had a 3rd child who I would keep far away from anything musical or theatrical (maybe have an athlete so he/she could sign early an only have to apply to one college that has already accepted them…)!
I love my MT daughter, I love my MT daughter, I love my MT daughter but NOT the MT college process…</p>
<p>I know that within the next few months, there will come a day when I can take a deep breath, symbolically brush off my hands and say-- Done! (Actually, it can’t come soon enough…my damn nerves are frayed. I am in serious need of a massage!)</p>
<p>cellomom-- this MT process is brutal! Other non-MT parents have absolutely NO idea what our families are going thru-- no idea. I’m actually jealous of their kids only submitting 4 applications. Four for us is suicide!</p>
<p>Actually looking forward to her “audition tour” when all the paperwork has been submitted…and scene (my rant is over)</p>
<p>oops-- used the wrong pronoun again… LOL</p>
<p>The commonapp as far as recommenders doesn’t seem to match the schools site, anyone else notice this? Some said “0 recommenders required” but there were recommendations required on the school site.</p>
<p>We felt so accomplished being to be down to the schools that require presceens. I’ve decided to start worrying about that paperwork if he gets through the prescreen. Why waste the time and energy if he doesn’t get to the live audition. I’m aggravated with myself that I paid to have SATS scores sent to those score already, I should’ve researched, its much smarter to send after the pre screen. Corse now I’m thinking does all that stuff have to be in with the prescreen? I don’t think so but my mind is playing tricks on me. It’s 5:00 somewhere right?</p>
<p>Yes, MTCookMajor exactly my point about number/type of applications required on the Common App. site vs the college website vs the college’s MT dept. or audition requirements! My D (and I as her secretary) thought she had it all correct but different things popped up as she was getting her prescreens out (the Approv’d or Decision Desk sites asked for something different than she has seen elsewhere).
Just one more place to check before you S/D thinks they are really done…</p>