<p>Daughter is a h.s. senior. She is planning to do the OU “preaudition” at Unifieds in February, with hopes (obviously!) to be invited to campus for the whole shebang. She is also a National Merit Semifinalist, and OU does provide a very generous package to NMS students who attend. She was academically accepted to the University on Friday. Now she’s getting links telling her to start her housing application (with the non-refundable $30 fee, of course). Not even knowing if she’ll make it past the screening audition, does she need to go ahead and put in for housing in order to get a place to live, should she be accepted and choose to attend?</p>
<p>mommafrog, looks like in addition to Michigan, your D has another great program on her MT radar identical to my D’s experience last year. Checking D’s application/audition time log for OU last year:
D applied in Sept, academically accepted early Oct, auditioned on campus October 23rd
(She had been prescreened in Lincoln at ITF that summer)
D received “priority hold letter” in mid-Nov. from Weitzenhoffer School of MT.
It was at this point that I chose to send in the $30 housing app fee, figuring it was worth it
to secure D any “housing advantage” if indeed OU accepted her into their MT School.
Well–they did accept her…but not until very very very late April. D ultimately chose another program, but had she chosen OU, she would have been loving me for securing her some sort of housing pecking order I suppose, 5 months prior. Worth the money in my mind.
As an aside, OU was D’s first audition and an all-around great experience. The OU MT faculty and staff and students could not have been any more welcoming and genuine.</p>
<p>I would reserve the housing because then she will have the best options for housing. For example, she might want to live in the honors dorm.</p>
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