Emerson has Early Acceptance - notification on December 15th.
Marymount has rolling admissions, and their first audition date is in November (so you’re notified in December or January).
Hartt has an early date and notification.
BW has traditionally had one round of auditions in November. Early auditionees would get yes, no or hold by the end of the year.
Fall auditions (October/November) available in previous years have been: Wright State, Indiana, Ball State, Milliken, Baldwin Wallace, Elon (that I know of). Milliken tells you at the end of the day if you are admitted. I believe the others wait…some to closer to end of year, some until after auditions are done.
Things change from year to year but UArts had and an early audition and early decision with that fall audition.
Wright State had rolling admissions in the 2014-15 audition year, but changed that for the 2015-16 audition year. This year they notified after all auditions were complete.
Oklahoma City University also has November/December audition dates, and they let you know about three weeks after.
Montclair is rolling.
Thought I’d just share insight into visiting schools for the Junior parents. I would highly recommend NOT going on a big college visit tour (the way we do with our non performing arts kids). I would only visit a couple of schools to get a sense if city/country, conservatory/liberal arts and small/large is a better fit or makes a difference for your child. And if you have schools that meet those criteria locally or within driving distance that’s ideal. We visited 10 of the 20 schools my S applied to when he was a Junior. He did not change his mind about applying to any of those schools after visiting. He chose to audition on campus at most schools so we were back to all of them a 2nd time. He went back to sit in on classes at his top schools after he was accepted so we were back to a few of them for a 3rd time. There was a lot of time and money spent on pre-audition visits for little “benefit” as far as the outcome of deciding which schools to apply to or which schools to attend. You can get a pretty good sense of the program curriculum, faculty and take virtual tours of colleges on their websites. Plus you can typically find videos on you tube with performances by various programs too. Also for schools that go to Unifieds, auditioning on campus does not necessarily increase your chances of being accepted (lots of kids are accepted from Unifieds) so auditioning at Unifieds can also limit the number of schools you need to travel to. If I had to do this over, I would have attended Chicago Unifieds and only gone to those schools that require on-campus auditions and I would have waited to visit the other schools until after he was accepted to visit, because attending accepted student days and sitting in on classes has proven to be the most beneficial of all the visits he has had and obviously he didn’t get accepted to every school (and in some cases we spent money to visit those schools that ended up rejecting him twice!).
@MTMom98 - I completely get not doing a full set of visits if you are planning on campus auditions. BUT - I do strongly recommend visiting schools during application/audition cycle- while there is still time to make changes. D has a friend a couple years older than she is who was accepted to 4 BFA programs (out of the dozen or so he applied to) who refused to do any visiting at all until accepted b/c he didn’t want to “fall in love”. Now, I have no idea how well he did his HW beforehand- but what I do remember is that she came home from her trip to visit the programs devastated- he didn’t feel any of them were a true fit. In the end, he chose a school, but was not happy there - ended up leaving and having to start from scratch.
I have said many times, pre-application visits were incredibly important in my D’s process. That doesn’t mean they would be for every person, but - if you think it would help your kid, and can do it, don’t feel like you “shouldn’t”.
@toowonderful I agree that if there is a question about a specific school and whether it would be a good fit and you aren’t going to audition on campus, it’s good to visit. Just sharing that in our case, we did our homework before coming up with the list and visiting didn’t change anything and ended up being expensive to visit some schools two or three times.
I’ve had 2 kids go through “the process” and each used a completely different approach. My S wanted to visit/sit in on classes if possible prior to or during an on campus audition. My D wanted to take a wait and see approach - she did NOT wish to visit all her schools until she had results. Her BA safety schools are local and she did one on campus BFA audition - no need (in her mind) to re-visit those schools at this point. We have used late March/April to visit all accepted and waitlisted schools. She’s been quickly able to re-rank the schools as she has gone and has stricken accepted and 1 waitlisted school after visiting. It makes for a REALLY busy 30 or so days.
My S, on the other hand, had been to all of the schools to which he applied and was able to evaluate his options without revisiting (although he did follow up with questions in a few instances). He absolutely fell in love with a few of the campuses so was disappointed when those rejections came through but my D will be in the same boat if/when waitlists turn to no.
I can’t say which option was cheaper; for us, they turned out to be about the same since we were able to group audition cities (both of my kids limited schools to the NE/Midwest). However, I give a slight advantage to the post-acceptance/waitlist visit, at least for my D, since she has felt the comparison among programs is no longer theoretical. She has been asking great (and granular) questions and taking extensive notes - which will hopefully turn into a great pro/con list! I ask all the safety/dorm/food questions that make kids roll their eyes at their parents so I’ll get my own rows 
^^^I should add that we had visited college campuses in conjunction with other travel (vacation, etc). My S removed 2 schools from his preliminary list based solely on those visits. We had a friend recommend to us before my oldest started HS that we visit colleges anytime we traveled - because it could come in handy down the road. In a few cases, it did!
Wow I simply cannot believe it is time for this to really get underway. I started getting acquainted with this crazy process when my daughter was a freshman and I figured I better do a little research and ended up here. Boy was my mind blown! Truly I am so thankful that I had the good sense to do my homework because at least I have a pretty good idea of what we are in for this coming year. We are already in prep mode finalizing a college list, doubling down on dance, working on audition material all the while working around school and her shows. But I have to believe that after years of vocal and dance training and goodness knows how many shows, she knows that this is what she wants so we are all in as they say! Right now our biggest challenge has been narrowing down the absurdly long list of schools so D and had a real heart to heart in order to truly understand what she wants and doesn’t want. Doing a vocal performance track has long been on her list of maybes - but she really does not want an opera or choral focus so we are taking that off the table. Also, she has ruled out BAs or any BFA or BM program with more than 40 units of GE. After years of AP classes, and local community college classes that she has already taken she wants a program that is truly focused on performing arts with plenty of emphasis on dancing and acting as well as singing. Now she can look at the curriculum with much more focus and determine if it would be a fit or not. This has really helped eliminate a lot of schools and I hope will result in a list that makes sense for her. And so it begins…
Really enjoying the happy outcome stories of the class of 2020. Feeling kind of nauseous about what is ahead. My D is a classically trained soprano with no (zero/zip/nada/) belt. It has been her voice teachers opinion that belting would ruin her voice- she sings in an auditioned elite girls choir, takes voice and has a vocal coach. Everyone seems to agree that she has a lovely, exceptional classical voice. She wants her BFA in musical theatre and I fear the possibility that she will not be admitted anywhere. it is hitting me that my very sweet, earnest gal may not get to study what she wants.
Mtmhopeful it seemed when my child auditioned they were liking those who had strong vocal training. But I’m assuming she has vocal, dance and acting training. The field is so competitive it might be wise to throw in VP and BA programs. Good luck to you and all the others.
@MTMHopeful … my class of 2019 daughter had a rough road last year … and I think that’s putting it mildly. (Heck, she BROKE HER FOOT in the fall at her Milikin audition. What a way to start the audition season!)
There are several things I would’ve done differently but I think that with a well balanced list of schools, most kids will find a place that they like.
Mine did! And in two weeks we are off to see her last performance of her freshman year AND pack her up and move her home for the summer.
Thinking good thoughts for you!! And this board is invaluable … use it!! I can’t tell you how much help these parents on this board were … I think they saved my sanity quite a few times!
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Yes, Ducky312- she has had dance (ballet & tap) and acting classes. She will never be mistaken for a dancer but learns routines quicky & can pass in most of the shows she’s been in. Her strongest skills are in vocal arts. Because of the type of music she has studied, she doesn’t have a contemporary style voice. Her voice is “old fashioned” for lack of s better term- kind of like a 16 YO Shirkey Jones. She reads music well and has s good ear. I’m hoping that she can find a program that appreciates her and where she can thrive. I am wondering if some schools have a soft spot for “golden age” singers or are there schools that have more crossover between VP & MT? She’s a very good student so BA/BM options are there but she really wants to be able to do musicals. KaMaMom- I followed your story last year and was so moved by your honesty- it’s hard when it seems like everyone is finding success and things don’t go your way. Most posters wouldn’t have shared and for that, I tip my hat to you. Was SO happy that you were able to turn it around!!
Awwww, thanks @MTMHopeful . My D survived and is thriving … she found her people for sure! BAL this upcoming year … from what you’ve shared about your D, I’m sure everything will shake out fine in the end.
(Maybe someone else can jump in here, but when you say “crossover between VP & MT” Belmont immediately comes to mind!)