<p>Due to other audition and schedule conflicts, the best date for my daughter to audition in Ann Arbor is March 9, which is the very last audition date. Her voice teacher is concerned that spots may have closed out by then. One other option would be for us to go to the NYC audition the week before that. Does anyone have any insight as to which audition option might be more likely to be successful – an earlier, off-site or later, on site audition?</p>
<p>Hi goblue! My daughter is a Junior MT at Michigan and the year she auditioned (2009) she was at the last audition on campus that scholarships were still considered. She heard a week later. I believe it is better to audition on campus if possible. I do know that Michigan does not fill all of their spots until all auditions are completed. Hope that helps and best of luck!!</p>
<p>Hello goblue… my son and another freshman boy auditioned in NYC on March 5 last year. We didn’t visit Ann Arbor until he was accepted. Not sure if anyone in the freshman class was accepted from the last audition date.</p>
<p>Yes, it does! Go earlier! The decisions will have already been made!</p>
<p>Where is “emsdad” author of an intriguing general post about “freakonomics” to the MT forum when we need him? No doubt there is a way to answer this question scientifically. </p>
<p>Date probably does matter but how it matters is likely dependent on who you are in this process and the needs at the moment as much as the “go earlier decisions will have been made” (totally believable and absent the emsdad analysis… I’d go with that advice as by the numbers, it’s correct)</p>
<p>There is probably an optimum date point. We were well advised at an on-campus visit to U Michigan that the best strategy is to hit the schools you care the most about somewhere in the middle of the auditions dates. In hindsight, that advice is proving to be true. Going too early in the schools that you care the most about means that you’re approaching those auditions and applications with less experience. Experiences DOES matter. The essays, and auditions indeed get better with practice.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that there are two parents of current MT students at Michigan that have posted that their children were accepted from March auditions in their respective years, one from an on campus audition and one from NYC unified, yet a post with no real information is discussed further.
Michigan does not fill all the available spots until all auditions have been completed. Does that mean some have been asked earlier if they audition early, yes, does that mean that some have to wait longer on the deferred list, yes.<br>
The question was is anyone accepted from the later audition dates in March and the answer is yes.</p>
<p>Goblue -
Don’t panic (or let someone else panic you). I wouldn’t change your plan to save a week. You already said, “…the best date for my daughter to audition in Ann Arbor is March 9.” Plus - it’s a chance to see the campus again. Think of it this way - you daughter gets to “close the show”.</p>
<p>A friend of my daughter was accepted from the last on campus audition date.</p>