<p>Welcome NanE! </p>
<p>There is a wealth of information here and it might take a while to sift through-but there are lots of good people and GREAT information here!</p>
<p>Wishing your daughter the best of luck!!
mikksMom</p>
<p>Hi, I remember my first post, and I remember what a life saver this site was, I don't know how anyone gets anything done without it! My S didn't audition for 8-10 schools either, he was lucky enough to be accepted to his first choice fairly early so he canceled the remaining audtions. The best of luck to your D!</p>
<p>Does anyone know if attending Governor's School vs. a pre-college program holds more weight on a college application? Is one better than the other? Also, if your S's or D's are looking into a summer program where are they applying?</p>
<p>To all you parents of seniors, are you ready for the final countdown? Last performances, end of the year banquets and GRADUATION! Last year we shared alot of our end of the year experiences and it did help. It's an emotional time, much more so than I would have anticipated, exciting and sad at the same time.</p>
<p>I just read your post about scheduling conflicts--- boy do i understand what you mean! Seems like we have conflicts all year... between music, dance and theatre when are we supposed to schedule everything? But I hate for my D not to be in these performances, as they will hopefully help her down the road... In reading previous posts ( i am new to this!!) it seems like there are some who opt to focus more on apps and auditions their sr year, but I just dont see how we can do that... my D might be stressed, but she would be completely miserable if she didn't perform when she had a chance to...
Please update and let me know how things turned out for you...</p>
<p>Mesmom, as one who has been through this with two of my own kids, let alone with many other students whom I advise, they did not simply concentrate on apps and auditions their senior year and put the rest aside. To the contrary! In senior year, they did all the things they normally do between schoolwork and extracurriculars, lessons, shows, and then had all this ADDITIONAL stuff of apps and audition prep to fit in on top of it all. It seemed like that could never fit into what already was a full life. But if one paces things out with a month to month and week to week plan and is good with time management, it all gets done. The problems arise for those who put off applications to the deadlines and things like that. While it is overwhelming, it is possible to do and many parents/students on here, plus those with whom I work, along with my own family, all lived to tell the tale, LOL. </p>
<p>Every theater applicant I have worked with, as well as my own MT daughter, was still doing shows (often the leads with many rehearsals), still doing tons of training, taking APs and Honors classes and so forth, all while doing the apps. Yes, there are multiple schedule conflicts. And yes, it seems like an impossible thought to add another thing to the schedule. But have a well paced plan in place step by step, be organized, manage time to fit in "college admissions" stuff into the weekly planner. Think of it as another subject in school (the applications/essays) with homework. During training time, work on audition prep. If one paces out all the steps that need to get done, it will get done. It seems like so much to do. Add in travel to auditions all winter. All these kids have shows, dance, and what not. My kid's schedule was insane the fall that she was doing applications. But it got done. She didn't even do the Common application but did individual apps to every school with umpteen essays and so forth. It seems like it will be hard to undertake this on top of a busy schedule. But if you start ahead of time, and pace it month by month, and break those tasks into weekly tasks, it can and will get done. Those who start late...such as creating the college list in fall of senior year, have left too much to do in a short time. Those who put off essays and apps until late fall, again will have a time crunch.</p>
<p>**At a poster's request, I have merged two existing threads for the rising seniors and parents of the class of 2008 into one thread. I took the "Rising Seniors" thread and merged it with this thread for the parents/students of the Class of 2008. </p>
<p>Please be aware that when CC merges threads, all of the posts get filed into chronological order. Thus, the flow of the discussion here from this past spring may be a bit out of sync as two discussions are merged into one and the dates of posts from both threads are overlapping.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone gearing up for this next round of college admissions for musical theater majors.**</p>
<p>I think you merged the wrong 2 threads.... shouldn't it have been the High School Parents/Students Class of 2008??</p>
<p>MusThCC....things are very messed up. </p>
<p>A poster requested that I merge two threads for "rising seniors". So, I found the two threads....one was called "Rising Seniors....." and the other was the High School Parents/Students Class of 2008. So, I merged them. BIG MISTAKE. AFTER I merged them, I saw that these two threads should NOT have been merged because the "rising seniors" thread was for the class of 2007 and started by Mikksmom. The thread that is for the class of 2008 was started in Feb. 2007 for by mtsmom. Mikksmom's thread began in 3/06. </p>
<p>So, I have spent a LONG time now, moving post by post by post.....as I can't "undo Merge" to split the two threads back to as they were. I have now done that, as they should never have been combined. I just listened to this poster's request and did it without checking the content/dates of the two threads. Each group's thread should be separate even if the topics are relevant each year. </p>
<p>So, now that I have split them and renamed them, something weird is going on. The threads for each class are both "featured" on the MT Forum but ONLY the thread for the class of 2008 should be featured, the one started this past Feb. by mtsmom. BUT the thread for the class of 2007 (started by Mikksmom) is appearing at the top of the MT Forum as featured but CALLED High School Parents/Students Class of 2008 but when you open that thread, you get the class of 2007 thread. That thread should not be featured or named as class of 2008. I have renamed it class of 2007 and unfeatured it but something is not going right. </p>
<p>There really are NOT TWO Class of 2008 threads. It only LOOKS that way at the top of the forum where two are listed as featured with the same title. If you open one, you will see it is the class of 2007 thread started by Mikksmom, though I renamed it as it used to be called Rising Seniors....</p>
<p>I may need to get some tech help to fix what is wrong in the featured threads. I can't tend to it now as I have spent a long time splitting all the posts of these two threads I had merged at another poster's request when that should never have been done. </p>
<p>Bear with me and I hope to get the featured threads named correctly and only feature the class of 2008 thread, of which there is truly just ONE thread.</p>
<p>OK, I think I fixed it in a roundabout way and deleted this thread. That made the thread come out of the featured section where it was also misnamed as the class of 2008. I undeleted this thread now and it is in our regular section and properly named for the class of 2007 (used to be called Rising Seniors.....). The original class of 2008 thread started by mtsmom still remains featured and intact as the original. </p>
<p>I am not going to merge these even though someone requested it because while they both deal with rising senior issues, they are for different groups of families. </p>
<p>So, we are back to our regularly scheduled program and it took a while to undo the "damage" :).</p>
<p>So, please ignore my mention of a "merger" earlier.....that is not true and the threads are as they were originally.</p>
<p>CollegeMom, bless your heart! What a day you must have had!</p>
<p>Oy! I got tired just reading what you had to do......thanks!!</p>
<p>MikksMom</p>
<p>Hoping this moves this thread up, where it always belongs!!! My D is away at governor's school for July, while I am combing the websites for audition dates. Right now, she is looking at all tough audition schools, with minimal safety (though we are working on this, and I've asked about it on another thread). Anyway, anyone have a theory on audition order? Get them out of the way sooner? save your first choice for later? Can you really get to 2 schools hours away from each other in shape to audition on 2 different days?
And, what do i pack in the medicine bag for a tired throat?</p>
<p>Sarahlsmom.....this is the thread for families with graduates in the class of 2007. The thread you will want to hang out on this year is the one for the class of 2008 which is currently up on the first page of this forum. </p>
<p>Many feel, and I would concur, to NOT do your first choice school as the first audition. Sometimes after one audition, one might regroup, make some changes, etc. Also, many kids find, and my own daughter felt this way, that they got better at their BFA auditions as the audition season wore on. There are no hard and cold facts about this, however. From personal experience, my own child's acceptances do seem to have a pattern based on audition date...</p>
<p>1st audition: (EA) accepted to school, deferred for BFA, ultimately denied in April.
2nd Audition: Denied.
3rd Audition: Accepted
4th Audition: Accepted
5th Audition: Accepted
6th Audition: Accepted
7th Audition: Waitlisted
8th Audition: Accepted
No proof of anything but just sharing how the pattern worked for her. </p>
<p>Yes, we tried to group auditions into travel plans. For instance, my D did Ithaca and Syracuse on one weekend (separate days) and same with Penn State and Carnegie Mellon. So, it meant less overall trips and weekends. she did all on campus auditions. </p>
<p>By D likes to use Throat Coat tea.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Interesting about the order of auditions and results. The same pattern emerged from our experience:
1st Audition: Denied (after call back)
2nd Auditon: Denied
3rd Audition: Denied
4th Audition: Accepted
5th Audition: Waitlisted
6th Audition: Accepted
7th Audition: Accepted
8th Audition: Accepted
9th Audtion: Accepted
So I'd agree it's best to not audition first for a first choice school.</p>
<p>My D intentionally scheduled a school lower down on her list for a "break-in, trial run" audition. It was also her so-called safety school. She really only audtioned at top tier programs after that, for the most part all in NY, over 4 different weekends with 4 at the Unified's.
Her pattern was:
1st audition: Accepted
2nd audition: Denied
3d audition: "
4th audition: "
5th audition: "
6th audition:Accepted
7th audition: Waitlisted
This might throw the pattern off a bit, and she did decide to change her monologue after the first few rejections (not that we knew the results at the time). She was accepted at her first choice, so her own desire must have shown through.</p>
<p>My daughter's auditions ended with a different pattern all together just showing that I'm not sure how much it matters when you do what....</p>
<p>1st audition: Deferred then Accepted
2nd audition: Accepted
3rd audition: Accepted early action
4th audition: Accepted
5th Audition: Rejected
6th Audition: Accepted
7th Audition: Accepted - CMU yeah!
8th Audition: Accepted
9th Audition: Deferred then Rejected
10th Audition: Deferred then Waitlisted </p>
<p>Her only goal was to get an acceptance by the holidays to take off some of the pressure and she did just that so that worked in her case...but if it doesn't work, the key is to come back even more focused in January and not let it get you down!</p>
<p>My D's pattern:</p>
<p>1st audition mid November - BA program, audition optional for scholarship purposes. Scheduled 1st because less pressured and good warm up. Accepted with merit/artistic scholarship (which I mention only because the scholarship reflects the audition results).</p>
<p>The rest of the auditions were BFA's
2nd audition - early December - 1st audition date at the school - accepted
3rd audition - late January - accepted (D thought she had blown the audition -ya never know)
4th audition - late January - rejected
5th audition - mid-February - rejected. D's heart wasn't in it. Decided didn't really like the school as much as others, was feeling a bit burnt, having just finished a 4 day show at home.
6th audition - late February - last audition date at the school - rejected even though called back. D felt it was her best audition. Small program. We think school had its "fill" of females of my daughter's type that late in the game. If doing it over, would have scheduled it earlier in the season but who knows if it would have made a difference.</p>
<p>My D scheduled early auditions intentionally, because she knew she would be very busy later in the year. Went to Syracuse in October to avoid heavy snows! The only problem with early auditions -- a LOOONG wait to get acceptances.</p>
<p>After reading everyone else's patterns, I'm not sure any rules apply; that being said, here is my D's pattern:
1st audition: Accepted -- but she thought she blew it!
2nd audition: Called back -- then denied. Felt it wasn't her best audition.
3rd audition: Waitlisted -- felt great about the audition.
4th audition: Denied.
5th audition: Accepted.
6th audition: Accepted.</p>
<p>She ended up at Syracuse, which was her first audition. Reason? When she had trouble with her song, they gave her a second chance and even coached her through it -- she felt very good about their willingness to work with her.</p>