<p>Edit: never mind I re-read the e-mail and understood better. Still wondering though: </p>
<p>My Curtis audition e-mail says that I have to report there at a certain time. It sounds like a bunch of other people have to show up at the same time and then receive a randomly drawn audition time sometimes between 30 min after they report to the audition and 2 hours after that.</p>
<p>I'm traveling the afternoon of the audition because I live a couple hours away and the audition is in the evening. I need to be playing for a few hours right before I audition. I can't travel for two hours, wait around for maybe as long as another two hours, warm up for 30 min and then play well. I have a weird routing where I get through a certain number of drills, play the whole thing slowly, etc... before I perform. I like to do it in small segments of time so that I don't get tired which means that I need a large block of practice time before I play. And then I like to perform as close to having done that as possible (1.5 hours would be OK but not four).</p>
<p>Does anybody know if I would have access to their practice rooms (first-come first-serve probably) if I show up earlier than X time? Or maybe a general warm-up room? </p>
<p>Also they give a link to FA form for housing costs but someone told me that the only FA they give for housing is need-based loans and work-study eligibility. Does anyone know if it's true?</p>
<p>My son auditioned at Curtis last year. You get an assigned block of time to warm up. It was like 15 minutes I believe. You do not get an unlimited time to warm up. He was to show up at a certain time, get his warmup time and then his audition. It was a very short amount of time he was actually at Curtis. The whole thing was around an hour long.</p>
<p>Gradschoolbound1, the best thing I could suggest is to rent a hotel room in the area (maybe?) for warm-up prior. Everyone else will be in the same boat, visàvis warming up.</p>
<p>Thanks maybe that’ll be the best solution indeed. I was hoping not to do this because it’s yet more money, and also I always worry about hotel staff asking me to be quiet (though the one time it did happen they gave me a remote conference room instead). So it’s usually not possible to settle into one of their practice rooms if I show up early in the afternoon?</p>
<p>Like Scubachick I’m a little worried because my daughter also requested an audition but has not heard back about a date… I wonder if they are going instrument by instrument.</p>
<p>It’s normal. Most my friends, string and voice, haven’t heard either. My audition is on the earlier side. They are definitely going instrument by instrument.</p>
<p>Good luck at Curtis! My S who is a high school junior has a couple of Double Bass senior friends pass the pre-screening. They found out last week.</p>