<p>Imalanut, congratulations to your son! Sounds like he did great.</p>
<p>One last note....
Good coaches are worth their wieght in gold. My D's acting coach was wonderful. She gave her great material which was age appropriate. My D did not have a lot of time to devote to the process and in a minimum amount of time she did really well. Always ask around. Some teachers will have good references for a good coach. People also involved in community theatre will also know.
My D's vocal coach is also really good. My d just did not have the amount of time to devote to her material.
So, ask around and START EARLY!</p>
<p>bettyboop- I couldn't agree with you more. START EARLY! I was reading CC from the outskirts for over two years before we even started the senior year. My D and I started looking at programs in her sophomore year. I really believed we were ready for the craziness. No way! It's as if an avalanche hit us. Between the stress and work of senior year, filling out applications, preparing for auditions, rehearsal schedules, school work, life, breathing... and everything else that comes along, it was an overwhelming experience. Now that it's done, I can say, "Wow! What a ride!" But at the time and during the painful wait for letters, I really thought we would explode. So, bottom line, plan ahead and do applications during the summer if at all possible- and find your audition material early.. better yet- NOW!</p>
<p>My two cents anyway.</p>
<p>My D has had about 6 years of consistent, serious vocal training, about 4 years of dance (all styles), but no special acting classes, other than school. Her voice is definitely her strength, followed by acting, and then dance. She always thought that dance was her weakness, but it turns out that she did better in her dance auditions than she expected. She has done a ton of community theater and almost every school production since about 12 years old. She has a 3.9 GPA, a pretty good ACT score (28 I think?), and multiple AP credits. </p>
<p>Her auditions:
On Campus: UMich, Elon
LA Unifieds: CCM, CMU, Emerson, BoCo, Hartt</p>
<p>Accepted: UMich, Elon, Emerson, BoCo, Hartt
Waitlisted: CMU (Priority option)
Rejected: CCM</p>
<p>When we started the process last fall, we were absolutely clueless. Her entire list was UMich, CCM, CMU and BoCo. Once I got on CC, I realized how ridiculously inadequate that was, and we added Emerson, Elon and Hartt. During the waiting process, I honestly regretted that we had not added even MORE schools than that. The more I knew, the more I worried that she would still not get into ANY of them. </p>
<p>She did not have a true "safety," and we are incredibly fortunate that she had some wonderful options in the end. If we were to do it all again, I would probably have had her audition for about 10 schools, including the all-important safety school.</p>
<p>College lists need to be highly individualized. Depending on one's academic and artistic profile, some kids may need more schools as well as more back ups and also WHICH schools will truly need to vary between individual applicants. One kid's list may not work at all for another kid. MOST kids, if their list is appropriate, can make do with 8-12 schools where hopefully two are non audition and one is an academic safety as well. But truly this is a big generalization and there are some kids where they don't need this number or same balance. </p>
<p>I strongly recommend having a non-audition safety or two on the list (two are nice so that you will be left with options). </p>
<p>However, I am going to admit that in my own child's case, it was VERY much like tiffw's D. She applied to 8 BFAs in MT, got into five, priority waitlisted at one, accepted to the college and deferred for the BFA and eventally denied the BFA at one and denied at one. Yes, I was very nervous about the whole deal but felt pretty confident she'd get into at least one and that her list was right for her. It does sound nutty and I would not recommend it but honestly, like with tiffw, several of my D's theater pals had similar lists to hers and all ended up at really good BFA programs. But honestly, as long as the odds are (and they truly ARE even for the most talented candidates), these kids were contenders and in the right ballpark and thus none got totally closed out (most had many choices like tiffw's D has). I could not predict which schools would take them because qualified candidates are turned away at such competitive programs, but I felt pretty confident that they were appropriate candidates and the odds were that they would get in somewhere but just not sure where. But such lists would NOT be appropriate for ALL applicants. The selection and balance of the list is a very individualized process.</p>
<p>tiffw: Maybe I missed it--Where is your daughter going in the fall?</p>
<p>Oops! No, I just messed up and forgot to include it in my post above. She is going to the University of Michigan, which, fortunately, was her first choice!</p>
<p>My S auditioned and applied only to BFA MT programs (very risky and not something I would advise after going through this process). His fall back would have been to take an academic route and probably go into education.</p>
<p>Los Angeles Unifieds:
BoCo, UMiami, CCM, Otterbein</p>
<p>On Campus:
OU, UMich, UTampa, Sam Houston</p>
<p>Video:
Pace</p>
<p>Rejected:
CCM, Otterbein (academically accepted), UMich, Pace (academically accepted)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
OU (academically accepted)</p>
<p>Accepted:
BoCo, UMiami, UTampa, Santa Fe (accepted to the program based on a regional audition although he did not apply to the school)</p>
<p>Final:
BoCo</p>
<p>We have not heard from Sam Houston after their last auditions were held on 3/28 and have not had a response to our voicemail message and e-mail sent to the professor overseeing the audition and the department chair, yet we know letters have gone out. Very disappointing!</p>
<p>My S is a 5'9", brown haired, blue-eyed boy with a slim build and a bass voice. He has had private voice lessons for 6 years, school choir and theatre for 6 years, no formal dance training, and has participated in a regional conservatory training program (voice and acting) for 3 years. He has a GPA of 3.72 and SAT of 1930. All of this information is given just to show those reading as to how radom these decision can be. There is no way to know how stellar another candidate was in comparison to your awesome audition on any given day. My S walked out of every single audition (song/monologue) thinking he did fine....it was his best for that day, at that moment, but not every audition was the same, and he knew it. You just have to go in with the best outlook you can, give it your all while you are in the room, walk out knowing you did your best, don't second guess what you did, and know that their impression of your talent is no longer in your control...let it go. I recommend a follow-up e-mail to your auditor if they provided you with their e-mail address, thanking them for their time and the opportunity to audition and conveying your continued interest in the program and school. If they didn't provide their e-mail address, find it on your own or e-mail the general e-mail for the department or school asking that they forward your message to the individual. Little details like follow-up communication can make a lasting impression, whether it be in school or in business.</p>
<p>Advise to parents....be prepared that not all programs/schools will reward your child with scholarship money based on talent or academics to offset the astronomical costs of some of these schools. Our final decision was made on 4/30, the day before the 5/1 deadline. I was one day away from having to tell my S that his #1 choice was not going to happen because of money. Fortunately, notification of scholarship money came on 4/29. </p>
<p>Although I only started posting in the past few months, I have followed this group for two years. The information provided by every post I have read has helped me to assist my S get through the process (even though he cannot believe his "old" dad is actually reading and posting on a blog), and for that I thank you all.</p>
<p>Is BoCo on this list Boston College or Boston Conservatory? My D does not really want a conservatory program as she is very academically oriented and feels that 4 years of singing and dancing may be a waste of time unless its at one of the highly competitive programs. Boston Conservatory may be in this group, Boston College is not and I see that your D also applied to most of these schools, so I am puzzled by your choice not to attend BoCo if accepted. With some schools taking only a dozen applicants the chances seem very slim for everyone so I’m had hoped that she would apply to some of second tier school such as Webster, B-W, Elon, ect. Can you clarify?</p>
<p>this thread is two years old!</p>
<p>TAHDad was referring to Boston Conservatory, which his son ended up attending after scholarship money made it possible.</p>
<p>Flossy
I’m a little confused. You said your D does not want a conservatory program because she is academically oriented, but then it seems you say she might be interested in BoCo because it is in that “highly competitive program” group. BoCo is very much a conservatory program in that it does not require students to take many classes outside of performing arts, and there is really not much time to do so. If you D wants more academics, she might want to look at other programs that require more GE type classes. However, maybe I misunderstood???</p>
<p>Bumping this list because of the interesting amount of information and diverse set of opinions it contains that may be useful in building a “balanced list” of schools to target for admission to an MT program.</p>
<p>For “newbies,” be aware that when people list “academically accepted” it usually means “rejected for MT” (unfortunately).</p>
<p>Depending on the context, it can also mean a student has received an academic acceptance while an artistic decision is pending. There are many schools where the process is bifurcated.</p>
<p>^^^^ I was referring to what I surmised was the context of most of the messages in this thread that refer to “accepted to MT program” vs. “academically accepted,” i.e., if they didn’t explicitly state that they were accepted for MT but did state “academically accepted,” then that means they were probably actually “rejected for MT” (unfortunately).</p>
<p>I would love to see this list resurrected for this year. I know most of the information is from 3 years ago and while it’s been fascinating to read, it would be interesting to see it updated for the current year. Perhaps some of this year’s folks would be willing to share their final statistics. (I guess I’m just a research junkie at heart! I love seeing all the different numbers!)</p>
<p>After rereading this thread, I wanted to mention that Snoggie’s D finished school recently and booked a job right away! I’m not sure how many people saw her mention of it in another thread, so bravo to Snoggie’s D. Sometimes you may hit a few roadblocks on the road to this crazy career but persevere.</p>
<p>Well we will try and start this thread again.</p>
<p>My D’s auditions were:</p>
<p>Unifieds (NYC): CMU, Webster
On campus: JMU, Syracuse, Ithaca, Penn St., Elon, Mich State (BFA acting), Muhlenberg, NYU</p>
<p>Accepted: Webster, NYU (Meisner Studio), Muhlenberg, JMU (BA MT), Mich State
Rejected: Ithaca, Penn St., Elon, CMU
Waitlisted: Syracuse</p>
<p>Accepted everywhere academically accept CMU.
Was accepted off Syracuse’s waitlist on 5/2 and is attending SU!!!</p>
<p>I know you s was accepted at BoCo some time ago but may I ask what range of scholarship did he receive? I was under the impression that the conservatories do not provide much in the area of scholarships? any info would be helpful</p>