<p>After any of your auditions, have any professors come up to you and compliment you? My friend was telling me, "After my audition, one professor congratulated me on my performance and was very nice to me," while I said "none of the professors even looked at me after the audition." -__-</p>
<p>Your experience is the norm. Nothing to be worried about.</p>
<p>Unless the comments were quite specific (as in "You're in. I really want you to study here and will recommend you for a full scolarship." or "Who let this $&%^$&^ idiot into my studio?") you shouldn't attach a lot of importance to them. Some teachers like to maintain an air of impartiality by not interacting at all and others like to say things like, "Hey, nice audition. I'm really glad you stopped by today." to just about everyone.</p>
<p>When D auditioned at Rice, the panel invited her to come down from the stage and sit around the table with them. Them complimented her on the audition, answered questions and were generally friendly and welcoming.</p>
<p>DS has had nice people at all of his auditions. At one in particular, the faculty was very pleasant to him. However, he says he played poorly and does not expect to be accepted. My son is a very friendly kid...folks are friendly in return. That does not mean an acceptance is pending.</p>
<p>First time around, teachers were friendly during audition, but we had no contact with them before or after. S had successful auditions, so the absence of personal contact meant nothing.</p>
<p>We've pretty much only run into friendly folks this time around. All have come out to talk with us and D after her audition. This past weekend, the teacher even went to lunch with us. I'm taking that as a good sign, although they made it clear to us that auditions continue through March, so scholarships wouldn't be determined for awhile.</p>
<p>But the absence of that sign, I think, means absolutely nothing at all. Some teachers just prefer to not give anything away before all the chips are in.</p>
<p>At this school we were just at, I saw judges pretty uniformly come out and speak with students after playing. I thought the comments were interesting. The clarinet teacher came out and told one grad student she was going to look for a teaching assistant position for her. She told an undergrad that she thought she'd stand a better chance if she changed her major from performance to music ed. Not in so many words, but that was the idea. I couldn't tell if she meant chance for acceptance, or chance for ultimate success.</p>
<p>Thumper, I'll think good thoughts for your S! This audition season is so grueling.... For the kids, too. ;)</p>
<p>Oh one more comment...DS got an absolutely wonderful letter from the trumpet faculty at the one school where he did NOT get accepted for undergrad. The school accepted only one trumpet performance major and this faculty member actually took the time to write DS a letter complimenting him on his playing and wishing him well. When we were tossing all that "stuff", it's one of the things DS actually kept. It was nice...but not an acceptance.</p>
<p>You probably can't read much into professors not looking at you after the audition, other than realizing that they see no need to be polite. At UCLA, the professors did not look up or respond when greeted at the outset or thanked at the end, and they made no comments on the performance. That seemed to be their policy.</p>