<p>Momsdream, Thank you - I particularly like that one.</p>
<p>(For all you performing artists whose audition plays by far the largest part in your college acceptances.) Many musicians and actors, even at the professional level, stress out far more over an audition that they do over a performance. This is understandable if you are more concerned about getting a gig than keeping one. If you are not prepared to fail lots of times before you succeed, you just may be in the wrong business. </p>
<p>Some go the other way and hold themselves to a higher standard when they have a larger audience. As a professional artist, you will be expected to give the very best you have whether the audience is one person or 100,000.</p>
<p>Remember to maintain a pleasant and professional attitude, even with your competition, because you never know who might be in a position to help your career some day. </p>
<p>It is OK to have your audience saying, "Wow! How can anyone do something that difficult?" It is far better if they are saying, "How can anyone make that look so easy?"</p>
<p>Another for you performing arts types, although it may be more generally applicable. Just because you are practicing does not mean you are going to get any better. You have to practice the right things in the right way. Too much practice can be as bad as too little, only in different ways.</p>
<p>
Good Will Hunting
that he said something the lines of, "One day you will realize that you paid 160K for an education that you could have received at the local library for $1.50 in late fees"
<p>Whether this is a cheap school (relatively speaking) or a school where you will get merit aid, make sure you have at least 1 school you can afford and would be happy to attend. And make sure it's a school where you know you'll be admitted.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter how many schools you've been admitted to you can only matriculate at 1</p>
<p>In light of yesterday's April</a> Fool prankster, it's good to remember that there is quite a lot of fantasy, self-delusion, and sheer fabrication in much of what you read here--the trick is figuring out WHICH posts have the fantasy, and which the reality.</p>
<p>"Throw money at the problem."</p>
<p>This is my mother-in-law's most sage comment of all time...applicable for party planning and college planning equally. Never fails.</p>
<p>LOL, roby. I probably LIVE that motto.</p>
<p>It does work, but my puritan parents think I will be lucky to get out with a short stint in purgatory.</p>
<p>Did you use a professional GC?</p>
<p>Cheers,
I live it as well, one of the glories of expat life..(most of the time)..</p>
<p>No professional GC. JUst didn't seem feasible from afar- my husband wasn't for spending the money and he felt we could do as much as we needed to. I knew I had a big job on MY hands when for son #1 the GC at school (for both my boys) gave me a list of schools that included one that had been closed for several years!! It occurred to me that A)If you want to do something right, do it yourself and B)I absolutely could not let the GC think we did not have confidence in him- at least until son #2 was done-- actually we have a good relationship and all has been fine...but I have become the defunct GC on several levels..</p>
<p>All the money was thrown at other things, seeing schools, sending packages by DHL so we didn't worry about them, etc...Of course, the big money will be tuitionX2 for the next 3 years!!</p>
<p>hmmmm...you're ight about money being thrown at other things. I wonder if having a pro would take some of it off my back--the conflict and nudging part.</p>
<p>He's going back this month for spring break. I should set up a meeting....can't hurt.</p>
<p>Are there people in "paradise" who do this work?? (just curious, there certainly is no one "north of paradise" who does)...</p>
<p>"Sooner or later, we all get rejected. Get used to it."</p>
<p>No...but there is a woman in our old home town where S is going for Srping break. I would trust her with my life. I've just sourced her email and will write and see about setting up an interview. Plus I can make an inquiry about cost <em>cough cough</em>.</p>
<p>We don't have a GC here. The school might be more useful with a UK admission--soemthing we will consider this time around--but they are hopeless with US admissions. The whole idea of 'packaging' a student is foreign. They don't want to know about it, LOL.</p>
<p>Anyway, thank. For whatever reason, your motto sparked a real possiblity for me.</p>
<p>Well, if no one is doing it in Singapore then they should...huge market here (I am here today that is!)...good luck...</p>
<p>Just looking at the Singapore thread on the Internationals forum--I'd say you're right.</p>
<p>If you're in Singapore, where are you going for dinner? :)</p>
<p>The American Club, of course (not!)...</p>
<p>It doens't matter where--I know it will be delicious and I am jealous. :p</p>
<p>If it's any consolation, the weather is dreary and the crowds are unreal...everywhere here it seems.</p>
<p>R, darling...is it warm? Is the sun setting at 7 pm? </p>
<p>If so, then it is not as dark and dreary as the cold, damp autumn days of the southern hemisphere where the clocks have been turned back. </p>
<p>Sigh. I don't know how I am going to make it to September.</p>