<p>Threed, my daughter went to SETC (southeastern theatre conference) in her junior year and while it was a good experience, I never understood why juniors are encouraged to attend and audition. Many kids think they are auditioning for colleges but they are juniors, and they really are not. Unifieds and Consortium are where the kids actually do audition, you schedule through each school and only after their college applications are in and processed. It is a completely different bird from SETC, and as a Southerner, a practical way to audition for the Northeastern schools.</p>
<p>Hope your daughter has fun, my daughter saw some wonderful shows when she went a few years ago (and it snowed, which thrilled her to no end as we do not live where it snows).</p>
<p>PhotoMom, great to hear from someone else whose child attended. The theatre director at my daughters school recommended SETC and said as a junior it was good to go to see what it is like and also to audition. Did your daughter go to the conference and the auditions or just the conference? It is my understanding that you have to sign up for both. We signed up for the conference and right now we are working on our application which includes two recommendations, test scores if you have taken the ACT/SAT, and a few other things like experience etc., basically your resume. She will actualy get to audition and they have I think around 65 colleges showing up. I looked at the list of colleges and there are some we are interested in. NYU and Julliard are not on it but CM, Point Park, BU, Rutgers, and some of the conservatory programs from New York such as AMDA, AADA, and Stella Adler, will be there. The colleges do look at juniors at thes auditions. It does sound like it would be good for us to look at Unified for next year also.</p>
<p>Acting Dad, sorry I should not have assumed. SETC is th Southeastern Theatre Conference. It is in Lousiville, KY, from 6 Mar - 10 Mar.</p>
<p>Thank you for informing me about Unifieds.</p>
<p>What I meant about.".this late"… is we were hoping, maybe being naive, that we could apply for colleges under early acceptance and audition at the actual schools prior to Jan and possible know before Jan. A few of the kids at my daughters school currently that are senior already have been accepeted somewhere. Finding out in the Spring would be rough. I am a planner and would like to know sooner if possible. Sounds like I may need to stop dreaming and get prepared for a longer ride:)</p>
<p>I will defintely look into Unifieds and will probably shoot for the Chicago one next year. </p>
<p>Photomom, I sent you a response to your other message did you get it? I am not sure it went through to you due to some type of eligibility requirements.</p>
<p>Threed – you certainly can find out from some schools earlier. But, many of the more competitive schools will not send out any acceptances until they’ve seen everyone. So even if you get an earlier audition date, it will still be March at the earliest before you hear anything.</p>
<p>Threed, I have not, I will pm my email address to you…</p>
<p>Early acceptance (which I thoroughly endorse when at all possible) is not done through SETC. SETC is a wonderful audition experience, the kids are exposed to many schools they have never heard about, and you will get inundated with offers to apply to the schools and/or attend their summer programs. They cannot offer juniors anything relating to college, though. If you go as a senior, you are really too late for auditioning as the college applications need to be in much earlier.</p>
<p>Some schools do have later dates. For example, University of the Arts in Philadelphia states on their web site:</p>
<p>“The University of the Arts accepts students on rolling admission basis and, therefore, has no official application deadline. However, you are strongly encouraged to apply as early as possible. Priority deadline for scholarship consideration requires that the application is submitted by March 15 and complete by April 1.”</p>
<p>Also, some schools have rolling admissions (as does U.Arts above). For example, my son auditioned for Shenandoah Conservatory on December 1. Two weeks later he received his acceptance. I believe Shenandoah also denied some students from that audition group, and deferred other for later consideration.</p>
<p>It made a huge, huge difference to my son’s morale to have that acceptance. But of course it would also have been demoralizing if he had been rejected.</p>
<p>My son was denied at Shenandoah (but my daughter is thriving there!!!), accepted at Hartt and deferred at Point Park. He is over the moon for Hartt (short list) but still wants to go to Unifieds. So, off we go…</p>
<p>Shenandoah, Hartt and Point Park offer early admission if you audition by a certain date. They do not have rolling admission…</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. But at least with Shenandoah, it wasn’t a specific application deadline thing. Some schools have official “early decision” and “early admission” processes.</p>
<p>My memory is that, of the East Coast schools, only NYU and BU have Early Decision for actors. Emerson, UArts, Hartt, (Coastal Carolina I think) and Shenandoah have Early Admission or Early Notification–which is to say you’re not obligated to go if you get in. It is so good to have an acceptance in hand by January! (But as prodesse says, there’s a risk associated with it too.)</p>
<p>Ithaca has early decision also. I’m not sure, since my S didn’t end up applying there, but based on their website Syracuse appears to have an ED option. </p>
<p>I’m with you, GwenFairfax–early ACTION is a great option, and I wish my son had been able to do one EA auditioned program, but we’re in limbo till March!</p>
<p>My son walked out of SU knowing in his heart he was not getting in to Shenandoah and it was a very long week between the two auditions…and I was scared to death he was not getting in anywhere (which, of course, I could not and would not share with him). It is a risk to try EA/ED for sure… I remember the long wait for March for my daughter and that was equally unnerving…not sure which was worse. Ugh!!!</p>
<p>My S auditioned at both Oklahoma City U and Rider in the fall and received acceptances before Christmas. They are early action, so the acceptance is not binding.</p>
<p>Photomom, can you please explain to me the process for college a little slooooooooooooooower:):) because it takes me sometime. Am I understanding you correctly that next summer 2013 or fall 2013 (my daughter is a junior), we need to apply to each college we are thinking about first and then sign up to go to audition at Unifieds which is in about Feb?</p>
<p>Are people really filling out 13 college applications so that they can audition? I used that as an example because someone previoulsy mentioned that was how many colleges/programs they were looking at.</p>
<p>Hopefully I have not already been placed on the “stupid” list but I am a little lost. Don’t worry, I catch on fast so bear with me. Just don’t go to a complicated movie with me:):):)you will leave me alone in my seat and reposition yourself elsewhere:)</p>
<p>By the way, I did look at HARTT and have sent an email to my daughter to check it out. What did your on love about it? Just wondered.</p>
<p>Some of the schools people have mentioned look like MT programs and since I do not know everyone commenting I have to go and look at each program to find out if it is MT focused or ACT or both.</p>
<p>I know you have one child in each, I am not sure about the rest of the regular’s.</p>
<p>I noticed today that Otterbein only accepts 8 kids in their BFA acting program. That’s not a misprint is it?</p>
<p>Threed, you’re correct about the numbers at Otterbein. Scary, right? And yes, kids fill out all those applications in order to audition (also scary). My son did 8 audition and 3 non-audition schools–girls generally do more, I think. By comparison, my 2 older kids did 5-6 applications for regular BA liberal arts colleges (and my daughter very happily majored in theater at one!). It’s quite a process, and CC has been our most valuable resource.</p>
<p>Threed – my daugher applied to 15. It is very overwhelming in the beginning. But the difference between putting in 8 applications and 15 is marginal from a time perspective. By the time 8 are done, every possible essay has been answered – you can just cut and paste the name of one school for the other. My daughter is only applying for auditioned BFA progams and we (or should I say I) freaked out at the odds and pushed to get more of these in to avoid the fate of nowhere to go to school given the odds.</p>
<p>It’s been remarked on here before that Theatre students do seem to apply to many more schools than students interested in other majors. It really does seeem to be because theatre is MUCH more competitive than most other subjects. And the schools will be looking at your D’s audition, which is very hard to quantify (unlike other subjects where pretty much all they are looking at is grades and test scores).</p>
because it takes me sometime. Am I understanding you correctly that next summer 2013 or fall 2013 (my daughter is a junior), we need to apply to each college we are thinking about first and then sign up to go to audition at Unifieds which is in about Feb?</p>