<p>mtboymom,
Bumping refers to moving a thread up that has been inactive for some time, making it active again.
Im not a parent, but im going to be a senior also, and am also a bit behind, so your not alone. :)</p>
<p>My d is very behind too. I've called a few of the schools and they told me not to worry she can catch up in Aug. when she gets back from her summer program.</p>
<p>Defying Gravity - Hope you'll keep us posted on OCU's camp. My son's good friend, a grade behind him, who went last year, is going back again. It was a wonderful experience!</p>
<p>All others - take a deep breath and RELAX!!! No since in stressing out at this point. If you haven't visited, just read everything on these forums, and it should help in deciding on schools. Get applications from schools in August and try to turn them in by the deadlines. Call schools to figure out when they start scheduling auditions. At some schools, application paperwork is required first. At others, you may schedule the audition independently of turning in the application.</p>
<p>Your child should pick out audition songs and monologues. Read plays all summer for monologue ideas.</p>
<p>I fell pretty good but not great about where we are. We have been to only 2 schools (and may not get to a whole lot more before auditions!), have an Excel matrix that I made of schools of interest with their deadlines (and scholarship info as well) and have generally been talking(the lsit needs to come down a bit!). My D has said she wants to bring her applications with her to NYC for working on at night during her summer program at CAP21. Although I applaud her idea, I worry with implementation but that is not really anything I can directly do for her. Our plan is to work hard in August to get going and get a few audtions in the fall. </p>
<p>Our problem is too much to do - she has also just been cast as Claudia Nardi in NINE(and she is psyched!) at a local community theater for late Sept/early October. We consulted CC and the calender and it appears it wont interfere too much. </p>
<p>Based on our reading, I think we are ok and I hope to hear and meet many of you 'SENIORS" at auditions in the fall and winter!</p>
<p>MikksMom</p>
<p>Thank you all , I feel my bloodpressure coming down a few points. I guess we are not that behind. My s is at Stagedoor Manor as we speak so I will get the spreadsheets and the calls going. When he returns we will get to work on which schools he wants to work on first. He is thinking about trying for EA to Cap21 but that is a whole other ballgame. Thanks again.</p>
<p>OH and Mikksmom congrats on your d part in nine! Great show!</p>
<p>The advice to breathe and relax is good! :) I'm not sure exactly what it is that you're all feeling behind in/at/about! If your kids have decided which kind of program they're interested in, and have some idea as to what part of the country they like, then you're doing okay. I'd say, generally speaking, over the years I've read the forums, most families have visited a few schools by this time for rising seniiors. We were a little unusual in that I believe, if I'm remembering correctly, we had visited all but two of the ten initial schools on my D's list. The summer after junior year, she and my H visited those two. She then narrowed her list to eight and spent the month of June trying out audition material, choosing six monologues, reading the plays, narrowing it to four, then had the rest of the summer to learn and perfect them. The summer is a good time for doing this if you have lots of plays to read before deciding. Same thing with songs. Once your child has chosen them, have them perform them for any and everyone. If they have a drama or audition coach, take advantage of that.</p>
<p>My D did not start completing her actual applications until fall. She did her E.D. one to Tisch first, then CMU because theirs had to go in before she would hear from Tisch. The others were completed and ready to go in case the E.D. news wasn't positive. Fortunately, we did not have to mail those.</p>
<p>For those of you whose kids want to get started early, and who want to do more than concentrate on audition material, they can have a look at last year's essay choices and start thinking about what they might like to write about. Personally, I think that the search for the right audition material is of the utmost importance in this process so this should be a top priority, and usually, the earlier the better.</p>
<p>You, as parents, can act as secretary and set up the spreadsheet or folders or however you want to keep track of the process. One bit of advice I'd give is to keep a journal, starting now, and record every contact you have with each school, when you called, who you spoke to, what was said, names of people who were helpful. Any of all of these things may come in handy later if you need to make a quick contact if there's a problem. Also over the summer, you can find out when each school's application will be available and when the first date is that they make audition times available. It's important to know those audition schedules because it will influence, or be influenced by, your travel schedule. Coordinating times, flights, hotels, cities, whether or not you decide on Unifieds, will all come into play.</p>
<p>When you have your list of schools ready, it's also a good idea to visit each website and find the page which details the curriculum for each program. This is a vital piece of information which every applicant should have, in order to see if the program is what they're looking for and is the right fit. Curricula vary from school to school, and it's important to have this knowledge going in.</p>
<p>I could probably add pages more but I'll resist the temptation. :) There are a few of us oldtimers here who have been through this process, not only with our own kids, but with others, and who have helped subsequent 'seasons' of CC kids survive the process! Ask and we're happy to help.</p>
<p>p.s. mtboymom, Tisch is E.D. not E.A. It's one of the few, maybe the only, which offers E.D.</p>
<p>All junior mom's and dads...</p>
<p>This next year, I'll be going to Cap 21...so if you all want an inside freshman's view on how it is to be a freshman, and/or questions about Cap/NYU in general, or would even like to meet in NYC for personal questions, please PM me, I would be more than glad to help you next year, provided the BFA doesn't destroy all my time.</p>
<p>mtboymom-
You are doing just fine! Last year at EXACTLY this time we were making our trip to visit the first three potential schools. That is what we did last summer, plan little trips visiting schools. Just relax and ENJOY this time!!!! We did the chart with everything from audition dates, to requirements. As soon as we could, my d filled out applications. I believe the applications were online early fall. Then she looked at the audition dates, and set those up. All of the schools she applied to required that the application be filled out before setting up an audition. I know there are schools that do not require that. Set up auditions as soon as you can! The times do fill up quickly!<br>
If we were to do it all over again...we would put some time, if possible, between auditions. With school activities, shows and programs, my d did not have a free weekend from Sept. until late Feb!!!! (well, except for Christmas weekend!) I do not mean a few hours here or there, but actually packing a bag and going away for most of them!! By the time she attended her last audition, she was "done"! She actually left her last audition in tears...not because she did not do as well as she wanted, but just the absolute relief that it was all over. But, when we all look back on that time, we remember the family time...it really was fun afterall! (well, for the most part....freezing our tails off at Ithacca in February is a little short of fun! Nothing against Ithacca!!!! )
So, relax...you are fine. Best of wishes for you next year...all of you. It is quite a journey!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for getting this going again. I am going to save reading until I get back from leaving D at CMU this weekend. That way I'll have something to fill the void!</p>
<p>Howdy from SC.</p>
<p>I'm a rising senior as well, and I'm definitely in the same boat as most of you. I've visited 2 schools, and done TONS of reading on CC (I just don't post too much...that'll change now that it's crunch time) and TONS of research on the various school websites.</p>
<p>Question... My strength is singing, so I'm not worried about finding an audition song (because I sing nonstop and have tons of material). However, I do not have material for acting. Do any veterans (or newbies) have any suggestions or advice on how/where to get monologues and/or plays. Library? Barnes & Noble? Cheaper the better ;)</p>
<p>Or if you can direct me to another thread?</p>
<p>I recommend going to the library, sitting down with all the plays you can, and read until you find material that suits you. Avoid monologue books...</p>
<p>I know there is a thread on here somewhere about this exact topic, but I don't know where it is.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>I bumped a thread about auditions. It has lots of good information about monologues. Find ones that work for you, specifically.</p>
<p>It seems to be a prety constant theme that you don't select monologue's from a monologue book you select them from actual plays. Several reasons for that I imagine and do be prepared to answer questions about the entire play. Another constant seems to be choose age appropriate material. </p>
<p>For our D we picked a couple from parts she played and connected with and then asked for suggestions from Drama teachers who know her. Used book stores, especially ones near colleges tend to have lots of drama material. Then read the play to see if there is a connection. As Fishbowl has said, "these are your babies"! (and the key to your future).</p>
<p>We just got home from dropping off D in NYC for 6 weeks at CAP21. As we were going back to her dorm, we got stuck in traffic, so she ended up just getting out, hugging us over the seat and telling us she would call us (we had helped her unpack earlier and had gone back with her for her vocal placement test). It is OK and I know she will be fine but it sure seemed like an awful big city! </p>
<p>This is the tough part!!</p>
<p>MikskMOM</p>
<p>How exciting for your family and your D! Is she doing the program through Tisch/NYU or the one offered through CAP21, or am I imagining that there are two separate programs?</p>
<p>It sounds as if your D is very independent and that the separation is going to be harder on you than on her, which is as it should be. I am sure it will be the same for our family when my D heads off to her summer theater program. </p>
<p>Please keep in touch to let us know how it is going for her. I am sure she is going to love it!</p>
<p>Lisa</p>
<p>We were just commenting on how quite it was around the house with two kids gone for the summer. The phone rang and it was D who successfully made it on her 2300 mile journey to NCSA (how could a major airport be a zoo at 5am on a Saturday?) It was not without incident though.</p>
<p>People, the predatory stalkers are out there and they are looking for our kids. She was approached by a dirty old man in the Houston airport. Lucky for that slime that I was not there cause he would currently be headless! (Wally is a big strong boy). Uncle Jack was on the connecting end and while he is older his experience as a plagiarist means that had this slimebag not eviscerated he also would be headless. Currently in the process of talking with airline security and FBI friends to identify this slimebag just to be sure he is harmless because he took not just one step but 4. I will soon know more about him than he knows about himself. They think they are incognito. If you know flight number and seat assignment the rest of the pieces can easily fall in place</p>
<p>Glad of the work we have done security wise with D. Probably need to write that book one day. Wolf rings, head phones, phony stories and confrontational actions</p>
<p>NotMama: Yes there are 2 programs. She is doing the CAP one because it is 6 weeks vs the four of the TISCH one. When does your D leave? </p>
<p>And yes, talk about separation anxiety - I got it!! Both my babies have flown for the summer.</p>
<p>Wally: How scary- glad your D is OK! Hope mine has as much street smarts!</p>
<p>Wally, how scary for your D! Even as we all anticipate the wonderful things in store for our children, your D's experience is a reminder that we also need to warn them about the bad, too. (Remember when they were really little and we had to warn them about strangers without making them terrified of every person they didn't know? Who ever thought we would have to be doing the same when the kids were 16, 17, 18 and beyond?!!)</p>
<p>Does Uncle Jack know you are calling him a plagiarist in a public forum? :) </p>
<p>L</p>
<p>Hah! No, Uncle Jack probably would not appreciate that. It was late, I meant pugilist (professional boxer) :)</p>