My son’s school allows current students to audition if they weren’t accepted to the BFA the first time they auditioned or if they decided to try for the BFA after enrolling in a non-audition program. Maybe some of those students were legitimately auditioning for the program.
It is probably a good idea, however, to be careful who you speak to and what you say anywhere that you don’t know for certain who might be listening.
My daughter is couch surfing with a friend at AADA and doing walk in’s at Unifieds. She had one audition and was asked back for an interview with Long Island University (new program in MT?). Hoping she’ll get her first acceptance.
Heads up - My S had his audition with Rider this morning and although they said to do the same songs and monologues from prescreens on the emails they asked him if he could sing a contemporary or pop songs instead of his prescreen songs. My son was not ready. Good to always be prepared. No accompanist which is always harder too. NY unifieds are crazy.
My son was accepted to LIU’s BFA last year for theater tech. I don’t think the MT is a new program, but I am not 100% certain. We went to some accepted student activities and even a departmental dinner. H and I, as well as S17, all liked the people we met and thought the program was a good one. However, we ultimately decided on a different school. One - S17 didn’t want to be 20 minutes from home and two, we didn’t get enough money to enable him to live on campus.
Good luck to your D.
Nephew is at CCM today, said it didn’t go so hot and isn’t expecting anything from it. Hope everyone is having better luck!
BAL to everyone at NY Unifieds this weekend! Crossing my fingers for each and every one of you!
@DramaQueen219, my D got her schedule about 3 weeks ahead of her on campus audition. The day started with a 9am information and Q&A led by three seniors followed by the new dean. After they released the students, there was another session for parents but i left to help my D get ready for her audition. The were two audition rooms in two different buildings and a few warm up spaces available on a first come first served basis. In the Walgreen Drama Center, they were in the basement. My D started warming up in a hallway and then moved to a room when one became available. My D had a late morning audition and they were running close to on time, less than 10 minutes behind would be my guess. There were two dance calls in the afternoon. The 3:00 dance call started a little late and ran anout 30 minutes long so the 4:00 didn’t get started until closer to 4:45. We had an 8:30 flight out that night. We ate a quick dinner in Ann Arbor, returned a rental car and could have easily made a 7:30 flight. I hope that helps.
@dramamama2022 About how many were there? And did they say how many total they passed the prescreen?
Thanks, this is helpful. Her audition is actually three weeks away, so we should be hearing soon.
@DramaQueen219 we were at UM this past weekend for my S audition. The musical theater audition was all scheduled at the Walgreen Center. My son sang 2 (16 bar) cuts of the pieces from his prescreen and the auditor chose the monologue. Dance auditions began at 3:30 and lasted about an hour with a second group beginning at 4:30. I would recommend you stay the night as there could be a delay.
@Notmath1 Just chiming in, my S was also there this past Friday. He reports having a great experience, loves the school & program. He has friends in the sophomore class there & one of them told my son that U Mich had about 1700 prescreens this year and they passed 400. The dean says they plan to accept 22 to the program. My husband guessed there were roughly 60ish kids there that day auditioning. Best of luck to everyone, we are in the thick of things now!
@nothmath1, I didn’t stay for the parent meeting where they talked about numbers but another parent told me the same numbers that @Dody5678 shared. That same parent said there were 70 MT auditions that day.
When will UM announce their acceptances? I noticed that their accepted student days for musical theater begin in mid March
@mommafaria Whoa, that’s early (considering other acceptances won’t be in by then). We should all have to be so fortunate to worry about all this :))
If past years are an indication - U of M often does acceptances in the 1st week of March. CCM and U of M have seemed (to me) to be among the 1st to notify the full class. Just to touch on the flip side, BOCO and NYU are often among the last- waiting all the way till the end of March
Here is a thread with general dates from a couple of years ago- was there one from last year? Couldn’t find it
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1745374-2015-mt-notification-dates-methods.html
But the University of Michigan no longer has rolling admissions. As of last year they stopped that, so that could be the reason for the change
@Notmath1 - I don’t think Michigan was ever rolling for BFA - they have just been an early notifier. But that observation is just based on my following threads here - no concrete data to offer
Anybody have any feedback on UNCSA off-campus audition? Thanks 
Michigan was rolling… I think up until the 2013 audition season.
After attending Unifieds this past week in NYC and a few other on-campus auditions, it is amazing how much D learned just by the energy in the audition room. Some schools seemed to go over and above to be encouraging and take the time to learn about her (most notably BW, TISCH and Emerson were unbelievably supportive and at least acted like they loved her - which may not be true but certainly was appreciated), while others were just downright nasty (most here probably know the ones I am referring to.) So I wonder what the take-away should be? The auditors that were rude to her are now schools she has decided she doesn’t want to attend based on that one experience. If she gets accepted, she has already decided she won’t go. But honestly, how much should these kids weigh that one exchange? Is a negative experience with the auditor a true indication of the climate of the school? And vice-versa, is a positive experience indicative of a positive educational environment? I’d hate to have her write of a school because one person was rude, but maybe that is the way it works.