I’ve heard that it happens every year…kids think they bombed an audition, but get it. Or the Auditioners never looked up while a kid auditions, but they get in.
I could use some hopeful stories!
Thanks!
It was for BFA Acting not MT but hopefully it will still give you some hope – My D went to the auditions for UCLA they had in New York. She had to show up at 9 am and was given a number. She was the 2d to last person of the day to go at 3pm! She walked out and thought it was definitely a no go. She was wrong–she was accepted!!! BAL to your MT kid – there really is no way to know!
Thank you @jbtcat ! Great story!
At my daughter’s audition for Hartt last year she felt that she delivered her material well but the auditors were looking down a lot and taking notes. There wasn’t much chit chat - it was very professional but not super friendly like some of her other auditions. She was a little disappointed as it was one of her top choices and she couldn’t read them at all. But not only did she get accepted she is closing in on the end of her freshman year there right now. So as I always say to her - You don’t know what you don’t know. So don’t assume you do. Life is full of surprises!
My D walked out of an audition and said “I really like this school, and that’s a bummer because I’m not going to get in here” She will graduate from that school in May.
Haha I was at my Emerson audition last year at Chicago Unifieds, the dance call went well monologues was killer and my first song was great. But she asked for a second song and even though it was my other normal audition song and I’d practiced a giga jillion times, I cracked all over the place and must’ve not hid it too well because the auditor gave me a pep talk on how to hide them in the future. The only audition I walked out of and said with complete confidence that I was not going to get in. A year later and here I am on spring break from Emerson as an MT, on a bus towards NHPTA, summer stock professional unified audition. You truly never know where you’re going to end up, or what the auditor will see (or not see) in you!
@sopranomtmom how does she like the school and the campus so far? We just went to see their production of “9 to 5” last night. Good timing for that one with the #MeToo movement in the news so often this past year.
@Monkeiiboy thanks for sharing. Obviously you were in before you sang that song. How do you like Emerson?
Thank you @sopranomtmom, @kategrizz and @Monkeiiboy
My D had so many things go wrong during her auditions (wrong tempo played by accompanist, getting her period in the middle of a dance audition, starting on the wrong lyrics, etc etc, the list goes on and on), so your stories are giving me hope!
Not my daughter, but there was a girl at her school that was a senior last year and she had applied and/or auditioned to 15 schools last year. She was rejected by the first 14 schools, including her safety school. Finally, she got an acceptance letter from Syracuse and is now a freshman there. She had been distraught for several weeks as each rejection came in, and finally went from agony to ecstasy with that one acceptance.
That’s a great story @NewJeffCT! She must have been over the moon (no pun intended, it’s just that my D is in Rent tonight, lol)
@NewJeffCT my daughter loves the training at Hartt. She was in the audience at the show last night as well. They specifically planned for the opening to coincide with International Women’s Day which I thought was inspired. This Nor’easter stuff she is still trying to get used too!
An acquaintance of my kid got into Tisch. He couldn’t sing at all so I am curious if he had to sing. His parents were not in favor of him trying at all.
That said, he dropped out within 6 months. But since then, I’m pretty curious about the audition process for some of these schools. This kid was very good looking, tall, leading man type. Anything can happen!
@MusakParent - he could have been auditioning “all studios” - and been accepted to one of the acting groups. Tisch has multiple sub-parts
@Monkeiiboy Always great to hear how you are doing… keeps us posted.
My daughter’s accompanist just stopped playing in the middle of her song at one school, though she kept singing. She left that audition crying and saying she would never be accepted, but was. Another school, kept her, had her sing song after song, worked her range, told her she gave an incredible audition…not accepted! You just never know!
At one of my son’s auditions last year, the program director was eating lunch and hardly looked up at him. He ended up with an acceptance and a offer of a full scholarship to that program. So we said that must have been a really delicious sandwich . . . .