<p>@harborceal
lol wooo theatre filled day! i actually live in maryland, so i was staying in palo alto with my cousins that weekend. we sort of just chilled afterwards.</p>
<p>it was awesome! i loved the whole atmosphere of it all. the woman who was running it, the stanford professor, was actually from where i’m from which is remarkable because no one has ever heard of where i live. we bonded over that. hehe. </p>
<p>i did portia from julius caesar and captain hook from peter pan. one of the students actually chose to “direct” me in my portia monologue since she was there for directing. i felt incredibly flattered and lucky because i think that turned out really well and showed adaptability.</p>
<p>mine was great too! I’m a local baby, so I just drove up, but there were people in mine from Texas, New York… it was really cool! I loved the atmosphere, too - very “workshoppy” with an ensemble-y, collaborative feel. </p>
<p>I did Lady Percy from Henry IV, part 2 and Hannah from the night of the iguana, and I think they went really well. I am also a director and I wish I had gotten to show that off in a way, but it’s on my resume haha. The lady was very complimentary of all of us Hopefully the fact that there were only about 20 theater live auditions will help us stand out in a way!</p>
<p>How many people from your high schools are aiming high? Other than me, there are about five others students who are applying top-tier. I’m at a public high school that sends the majority of its kids to Mizzou. :P</p>
<p>@harborceal
right! i wasn’t sure if i would really like stanford too much because their theatre dept isn’t like well known, but i really adore the philosophy. like it’s just very collaborative and interdisciplinary as opposed to stingy, narrow, and exclusive (which can oftentimes be a turn off in theatre and is probably more common is schools with more intense drama departments). my love for the school was just …confirmed.</p>
<p>i had no idea how many to expect in the audition group, and when it was just ten, i was like <em>fist pump</em>. theatre kids for the win.</p>
<p>i go to a school with mainly koreans so lol a lot. most of them are shooting east coast, though. they’re the competitive cutthroat kind. no one else i know is doin’ stanford early. but who knows.</p>
<p>@Paep3nguin, there are only two people applying to top tier colleges at my school – myself and my best friend. We both applied SCEA to Stanford, so it will be interesting to see what happens. :)</p>
<p>@Adodie: Best of luck to the BOTH of you then! :o</p>
<p>(provided it’s not one of you that steals my spot =P )</p>
<p>Around here, I’m the only one in my school shooting Ivy early at all (my school isn’t particularly competitive; last year was the best year in recent memory, 1 Harvard 1 Stanford, before that it was 1 Yale, before that was 1 Caltech 1 JHU; also nobody has gotten into MIT from my school…possibly ever, but definitely not in the last 10 years; hoping to break that one even though Stanford is my top choice, just by virtue of being the first MO?)</p>
<p>There’s another school in my city that’s really REALLY competitive, but they’re all doing Harvard, Yale, and MIT over there, it seems. The magnet school around here has quite a few Stanfords, but none that seem particularly impressive.</p>
<p>haha @stressedasian152 thanks! I wish good luck to you, too! I’m surprised nobody applied early at your school – my school sounds slightly less competitive than yours (we’ve sent one kid to Stanford in the last decade), but every year there seems to be at least a few people applying SCEA.</p>
<p>My school is huge. 3200+ kids (800 per class). We send a LOT of kids to Cal and UCLA; im talking like 20 to each one every year. Maybe 15-20 more go to top privates. Today, was not very good. All three people that I know of (2 columbia, 1 dartmouth), were either rejected straight up or deferred. :/</p>
<p>At least 5 applied EA to Stanford. :/</p>
<p>@coffeeandtea: youre right, cali is fantastic. what part of LA are you from?</p>
<p>My school is literally so freaking insanely competitive -___- We already have 4 people in Ivies (for sports, but they’re still amazing at school), and like at least 50-100 more applying to Ivies/top colleges. Everyone is like perfect scores/grades/everything but only a few people each year get into their top colleges and then all of the rest of the “amazing” kids end up going to UC Berk (please please god don’t be me).</p>
<p>Also I’m pretty sure like at leastttt 30 people applied Stanford REA from my school.</p>
Hopefully the fact that there were only about 20 theater live auditions will help us stand out in a way!</p>