<p>There is a thread on the MT forum about the number of schools
each student is applying to, thought it would be interesting here.</p>
<p>My S is applying to 6 schools:
4 audition-3 B.A. 1 B.F.A.
2 non-audition-1 B.A. and 1 B.F.A.</p>
<p>I wish he would apply to more, but I'm getting a firm, NO</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone. :)</p>
<p>My D is applying to 14.
1 non-audition school for a BA
1 audition BA
12 audition BFA’s…2 of these are what coaches would call “fit” schools and are slightly less competitive. The rest are very competitive.
0 schools for a back-up major!</p>
<p>This is last year’s info but my daughter did 14 audition BFA programs. We live on the East Coast which made it more manageable than it might be for others. </p>
<p>I don’t necessarily recommend this approach unless you’ve really thought through the what if scenarios. For her, she was prepared to either audition for non-college programs --Circle in the Square, Stella Adler et al. or just spend a year taking shorter acting classes and auditioning for work in NY.</p>
<p>My D is applying to 12.</p>
<p>1 non-audition school for BA, extremely hard to get into but she wants to apply just to know that she gave it a shot!; 2 non-audition schools for BA that she considers safeties plus 1 school that she got accepted into for BA but will audition for BFA;</p>
<p>2 audition BA schools, both very competitive;</p>
<p>6 audition BFAs, all very competitive.</p>
<p>She likes her safeties but may consider a gap year if she will not get into an auditioned school. She had auditioned for Chapman EA and I wish she got accepted, this school is pretty high on her list and she’d drop half of her schools if she gets accepted into Chapman.</p>
<p>notactingmom…your D auditioned for BFA screen acting correct for Chapman? We should here before Christmas. :)</p>
<p>SField - you will hear others say to apply to more schools, but last year we only planned on a few also.</p>
<p>One Early Decision auditioned BFA and one early action non-auditioned BFA (for scholarship consideration) were the first applications.</p>
<p>If he didn’t get into the ED school, we had two auditioned BFAs and one non-auditioned BA applications ready to go - so 6 total, like you guys.</p>
<p>The cost of applying to schools and the cost of the auditions and travel really impacted us!!! We were very happy to have him get into the ED school.</p>
<p>My S is already in his gap year. He is auditioning to 10 BFAs, all competitive. I’d like him to add several more, but he doesn’t want to. Like ActingDad’s D, as a ‘safety,’ he is prepared to audition for Circle in the Square or other non-degreed conservatories or take classes. </p>
<p>This is my fourth child and my third time doing this, and I have to say, it’s different each time; each child has different goals and different strengths. Plus, my oldest son is applying as a transfer to a four year college after a long leave of absence! Wish us luck, that’s all I can say!</p>
<p>bisouu-- yes, my D auditioned for screen acting BFA. Fingers crossed, I hope both our girls will get accepted! That would be the best Christmas present! :)</p>
<p>Auditioning for 15 Schools. </p>
<p>4 in the UK.
10 BFA in the USA.
1 Conservatory in the US. </p>
<p>Did early audition for conservatory last year, and that serves as my “Back up” although I would be happy to go there!</p>
<p>I have 5 auditioned BFA’s and one none auditioned BA.</p>
<p>We are taking a slightly different route than many on this forum. My daughter is only applying to BA programs. She is applying to 7 schools total:</p>
<p>3 auditioned BA programs
4 non-auditioned BA programs, but will audition at 3 of those for theater scholarship consideration</p>
<p>This is my 2nd child to go through the audition process for college theater programs. While I learned a few things in round 1, this child has slightly different criteria and interests, so I am still depending a great deal on CC to help us navigate! </p>
<p>The most important lesson I learned in round 1 is to keep an open mind. My older D is a very happy sophomore theater performance major at a school that we put on the list at the last minute because it was close. Once she auditioned, she fell in love with the program, faculty and campus, they offered her a very generous and completely unexpected academic scholarship and she found it to be the best fit for her many interests. </p>
<p>Cast a wide net, keep an open mind, prepare well for auditions, and if you are so inclined (as we are,) keep praying!!!</p>
<p>Break a leg to all of you or your kids!</p>
<p>KellyLJ1, great advice about keeping an open mind! Glad your D is happy where she is!
Break a leg to all.</p>
<p>My D has 13 audition BFA’s several for both acting and mt, and 1 non-audition program. Also not my first child to go through this. The first did it twice to end up somewhere she loves, and total for her between the two years was 20 audition programs. That aged me about 10 years!!!</p>
<p>Mtmom2014, I think there must be some kind of algebraic formula to calculate how many auditions, for how many kids, during how many years = number of years it ages the mom (or dad)! :)</p>
<p>How exactly does one find 12, 13, 14+ theatre programs/schools that they love enough to be willing to attend? I think fear is driving the numbers up. I understand that and we got caught up in it two years ago as well. My daughter’s list should have stopped at 9 including one non-audition safety and one non audition high reach BA. Instead, fear (undoubtedly caused by me from reading CC) made my daughter apply to 12 schools. Looking back over her list, there were 3 schools on it that she was never going to go to (and one of them rejected her too – smart school.) Keeping the list 9 schools she was actually willing to go to, would still have meant plenty of options and would have saved us over $2,000 in plane tickets, hotels, car rental and application fees. </p>
<p>I do think there is something to be said for the strategy mentioned above both by ActingDad and connections to consider non-degreed conservatories like Circle in the Square or to continue to take classes and apply again. We didn’t think of that. Perhaps at the time, we weren’t confident about the idea of 100 percent conservatory training and no academics or of a gap year. But with the benefit of hindsight, I’m still not so sure about a gap year, but I think the non-degreed conservatory option may have been OK.</p>
<p>Mine applied to 4 and will hopefully apply to 6.</p>
<p>5 are ba, 2 auditioned.
For sixth school, he applied to ba and may apply for BFA too.</p>
<p>Thanks Halflokum…I needed to hear that. Having only 7 auditioned schools has me worried. This post helped me to relax a bit…if only for a minute LOL</p>
<p>Bisouu, at some point it becomes a matter of diminishing returns. My daughter auditioned at 9 schools and got into 6 of them. But she only should have auditioned at the 7 schools she actually was willing to go to then she still would have gotten into 5 of them. Or if she could live backwards (ha, if only…) she should only have auditioned to her top 3 schools and she still would have gotten into 2 of them, or better yet, just for NYU because in the end that was the only audition that mattered in her life at all, because that’s the school she is at. In every mathematical combination, my daughter, your daughter and everyone else only needs 1 school that they would be happy to attend. So if you can naturally find more than 7 audition schools that your daughter really likes, is willing to do the application and audition for and logistically you can make it work, and afford the fees and other expenses, go for it. But if you’re tapped out at 7, then that’s her number.</p>
<p>My D auditioned for all schools but one. She did get into most, the others she was waitlisted. 12 schools in total. It was good because during the audition process and once she got her acceptances she ruled out schools she thought she was interested in. Also the experiences she encountered through auditions an callbacks was invaluable to her.</p>
<p>Six. All highly competitive BFAs. A gamble I would not have taken but I am not my son.</p>