<p>I know this is the MT board, and my son’s doing straight acting, but all the list-makers out there, add Boston University to the list of schools that require applications before auditions can be scheduled. On S’s list, BU and CMU fell into that category, and Otterbein was the only prescreen; everyone else seems to say just be sure your application is in before you show up to audition. It’s still tricky to time it, though, b/c we wanted to give scheduling priority to a couple of the schools posted above and work the others around those dates (did that make sense?)…in other words, we need to get BU and O’bein’s dates nailed down before setting anyplace else in stone, because he has specific dates in mind for those. At least he’s motivated… 
Does anyone know if the application must be 100% complete before you can schedule? If a recommendation is still pending, for example, but the student’s own materials are in, I wonder if that will hold things up.</p>
<p>It’s okay if a recommendation is still pending…as long as the application has been submitted. It must really depend on the list of schools, b/c of my D’s list, we could only schedule 2 schools before the application was done. Five are pre-screens, and the remainder we need to have the app in before we can schedule. Jeffandann, again, it is NOT the schools running out of slots that is our problem…it is the fact that I scheduled auditions on certain weekends for certain schools, and then when I look at dates available for other schools, they are ALL on those same dates for which I already scheduled other schools. No one, as far as I know, have run out of slots. It’s just a lot of the schools overlap on audition weekends…and if you’re flying to Florida for a Saturday audition, you can’t do a Friday Indiana audition the day before. Not possible to get from one to the other in time. So, that is my problem…it’s my scheduling issues…</p>
<p>Monkey, we have similar issues trying to schedule auditions around not only different college audition dates, but that is also the time for sshow choir competition season. Thus far we are OK with maybe one school where dad will have to drive overnight to get my D from a Friday audition to a Saturday competition!</p>
<p>WOW - you guys are such great parents! I will freely admit that I couldn’t do the overnight drive thing, because it would be so stressful, I’d pass out and crash the car!!! </p>
<p>I’ve only got one weekend with overlap, but it is from Hartt to Purchase (or vice versa), which is an easy drive. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you scheduling your travel plans/auditions, while working, and grocery shopping, and paying the bills, and . . .</p>
<p>No question marble that this is going to be an interesting year. The other thing about this is getting not only auditions scheduled but getting applications done in time for my D to get maximum scholarship opportunities at these schools. Thank God for spreadsheets!</p>
<p>This week’s goal: finish the Elon application, and get her dance for her pre-screening video figured out for submission. Who knows what comes up next week?</p>
<p>This is just in case anyone is looking at auditioning for Coastal Carolina University. Their fall audition date is next month. There is still plenty of time to get the prescreen in. I believe they are getting prescreen responses out within 2 weeks of submission. If your child is prepared to attend an early audition, doing the November on-campus date is great. There are not as many students at that audition day as there are at the spring dates. CCU already spends lots of time with those auditioning at the on-campus days, but I think you get even more of that at the November audition. And since CCU may offer early acceptance to some from the November audition, if your child is really interested in CCU and gets that acceptance, it may allow them to take some other schools off of their list. </p>
<p>Best of luck on the journey!</p>
<p>Thanks @do-what-u-luv for the heads up on Baldwin-Wallace. I will have him look into that one. </p>
<p>I am realizing that he may have to go farther away than I had hoped. Was hoping to keep him within 10 hours of home for selfish reasons.</p>
<p>KStheatremom - I live in MI and my kids are in BFA MT programs in TX and SC. What we have found is that, in some ways, we are more willing to travel by plane to see them than if they were say 8-10 hours away. One time we made the trip to TX, flying there and back. A 30 hour trip with 16-20 of it being on the road, would be a tough trip (I’m sure my husband would have a hard time staying wake for the show let alone the drive back home) Also, with the schedules these kids keep, they don’t have a lot of down time when you do visit, and even less to come home. Sure, I miss my kids and having them so far away is hard, but I can never be sad for myself because they both found programs that are their best fit and they are doing what they love. I would be weeping, however, if they were going to school in-state majoring in IDK because they didn’t get into a program that they loved and that loved them. </p>
<p>Also, as you visit schools and learn about programs and fall in love with them along side your son, you won’t want anything for him but the best! As my bother-in-law says, “Planes fly every day!” And, of course, there’s snail mail, email, phone calls, texting, skype, FB and other social media ;)</p>
<p>Glad to hear BW is a good possibility for him.</p>
<p>D was determined to stay close to home, and managed pretty well-- 4 hours away. Last night she laughed and said-- “I might as well be in China!” Which is true-- she’s been way too busy to come home, has tech rehearsals over Parents Weekend so there’s no point in my going there… ha!</p>
<p>classicalbk-- we followed that conventional wisdom last year and scheduled D’s auditions the minute we could…many of D’s friends didn’t schedule until December and had no problem. It’s nice to have it all settled (and D is an AT)-- but I think there’s more time than one might think.</p>
<p>We got our recorded music today, full songs, 32 and 16 bar cuts. It cost me $200, but this lady is a pro. She and my D went over all the tempo and intros. Also made sure that my D knew what her music might sound like if someone less skilled might play it. I think that’s helpful cuz you never know who is playing for you at auditions! </p>
<p>Just getting all the music recorded and cuts made makes me feel a little better! Now we are waiting on resume printing. I hope to have those back late this week or early next.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t even think about having resumes printed. D has several versionswe’ve customized, as the various schools’ apps have been asking for different info, but the theatre resume that will be attached to her headshots for auditions was just typed up using a template found online when searching for “theatre resume for college auditions”. In case anyone else is a do-it-yourself-er, (or just broke like us, after all of those app fees and audition fees!) you might find this a useful tool. It was a much more simplified version than the ones we’ve used previously but looks neat and uncluttered w/only the most relevant info on it. I don’t think I’m supposed to post the link on here, but google what I put in quotes if you want to check it out.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of resume printing in years and years now that we have computers and can make our resumes and print them out.</p>
<p>We are having them printed at a pro photo lab. It doesn’t make any sense to me to spend the time and money for beautiful head shots and then print them out on a standard color laser printer. D’s full head shot and name on one side, smaller different expression head shot and resume on the other side. Yeah, my D’s resume looks BOSS, cuz I have mad skills :)</p>
<p>LOL Walker1194. We never printed them on headshots when D was professionally auditioning because the resume was always changing and it cost so much to reprint headshots (although I still have 100s of her beautiful headshot from when she was 11 that we used up until last year – decided when she was 16 it might be time for a new one).
The best advice we ever got was to have a ream of nice paper cut to 8 x 10 so it would fit perfectly on the back of a headshot and not have to be trimmed. I had it done at Kinko’s and it was ridiculously cheap (like a few dollars) and saved much aggravation.</p>
<p>That’s a great idea - having the paper precut! May have to try that. I’ve done it manually, but so far we haven’t had any need of TONS of resumes at one time. And since D’s resume changes about every month or two, I don’t print them out until the moment we need them. No sense in prepasting them all now and having to rip and redo in a few months when she’s ready to audition. Keeping it current…</p>
<p>They actually sell actor’s resume paper. It comes 8" X 10"…</p>
<p>Thanks for that tip Monkey - I just ordered some 8"x10" paper after years of cutting it myself! You made my day!!</p>
<p>I’m buying the paper today too. Thanks for tip!</p>
<p>My son finished taping his prescreens today. What a relief!
Now to download and move on.</p>
<p>Glad to help, zebrarunner and md311mt!</p>