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<p>Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, to everyone who posted on this thread. Your words of wisdom and encouragement are greatly appreciated and I have printed them out and stuck them in my dinosaur folder to be used continually throughout this process.</p>

<p>Someone else mentioned on another thread that the Class of 2014 and 2015 will need this support and I second that motion and I know Shacherry will feel the same.</p>

<p>My daughter is not nearly as into this as I am and is just as free spirited as they come, and so your posts today really helped me to bring it down a level and breath. </p>

<p>Actingdad mentioned to me that once we start auditioning and visiting and continuing to talk to people about programs my daughter will begin to see where she fits. I think I was trying to do that right now, this minute, pronto. I am a finisher, a perfectionist, a problem solver, not good attributes I would say in this arena:)</p>

<p>At my request, we will be visiting as many schools as we can possibly visit, even ones we do not feel are a good fit which I feel is keeping an open mind:) Spring break is next week and she is flying in and we will visit Columbia College which is no longer a safety school as of Fall 2014, Depaul, and Northwestern (we promised her teacher we would visit this major ACADEMIC school of the midwest/nobody can say we are not open:):):slight_smile: We will also travel to Columbus, Ohio, to visit Otterbein. We wanted to visit U of Minnesota but unfortunately they are on break at the same time. Due to the fact that CA is very high on her list to attend school we will plan a visit there in early fall to visit Chapman, CALARTS, and USC. Somehow next fall, I am not sure when, we will try to plan another trip to see some of the schools in the east which would include the NY schools. UNCSA we are fully aware of so all she has to do is audition. BU she will see this summer. The only other southern school on the list is Coastal Carolina thanks to austinmtmom and we have to fit that visit somewhere. I am sure there are more but the point is we will visit as many as possible.</p>

<p>Big thanks to shacherry who is on this journey with me for her son and who everytime I talk to her, she gives me another school to look at:):):slight_smile: I really mean those smiley faces, because although I groan when she mentions yet another one I also realize that she is thinking about us when she is out there doing research and that in itself is awesome.</p>

<p>Have a great rest of the week everyone and thank you again, no really, thank you:)</p>

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<p>Bravo to you, Threed and Shacherry, and to the other wonderful, committed parents who have been posting this year. It is so great to see you carrying on the tradition of careful, intelligent research and mutual supportiveness and sharing that characterize this forum.</p>

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<p>I can say that we visited very few of my D’s schools prior to auditions. We did a lot of research on the computer, made some calls, read info here, and developed a feel for the programs. With the cost of the audition process in mind, we chose to save our money for travel to a couple of schools that only audition on campus and Unifieds. I have twins going in opposite directions in the college search process, so it was also necessary to leave enough time and energy and money for her sister’s college search. There is no one “right” way to find a “right” school. Most of the time, I think the school/dept finds you as much as you find it :).</p>

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<p>I agree with the comment “the school/dept finds you as much as you find it.” </p>

<p>I have a really good feel from my daughter and had done enough research on UNCSA to think it was a good fit for her based on her criteria but it was just another school on her list until her audition list with them at Unifieds. After the information session and meeting the faculty at unifieds, there was a mutual connection between her and the school where she got the sense that she was a fit for what they were looking for as much as the school was fit for what she was looking for. She had a similar experience at U of Arts which is where she would have gone had it come down to Hartt and U of Arts because, for whatever reason, she did not get that same connection feel with Hartt.</p>