<p>Same here! Passed prescreening at NEC and Rice for MM in violin; still waiting (anxiously!) on Yale.</p>
<p>Great news everyone--glad to see things coming in!</p>
<p>Anyone heard from BoCo yet today? They said they were letting applicants know today about prescreening results (by Friday) and the inbox is empty!</p>
<p>I hate this waiting game!</p>
<p>i passed boco screening! i found out at 10:30 this morning</p>
<p>Red - are you majoring in vocal performance by chance?</p>
<p>This is sooooooooo my favorite forum at the moment. And I don't have a child in the game (yet)! Congratulations on all of the good news everyone, and much much luck! Linde</p>
<p>I got an e-mail this morning offering a live audition at Boston Conservatory for Vocal Performance! :) Hopefully, auditioning February 14th. I have to call them tomorrow to secure a date, er, Monday, I guess.</p>
<p>What a long day yesterday was! DD got an email at 10:25 last night that she passed the prescreening at BoCo! </p>
<p>One more to hear from!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I was booking hotels for the auditions, and hotels.com was having site problems. So, they offered a 10% off coupon that is good on any booking made Jan 10 or Jan 11.</p>
<p>"Please check back tomorrow morning and use coupon code SDHTL3 for
bookings made between January 10, 2009 and January 11, 2009 to receive 10%
OFF your next booking."</p>
<p>My daughter also got an email from NEC yesterday, but no date yet. She is waiting to hear now only from MSM.</p>
<p>DS is still waiting to hear from Juilliard, Curtis (think that they don't get back until Feb) and Peabody. DS also has not yet had his date for Eastman confirmed.</p>
<p>My D got a positive response from BoCo yesterday. Now I wish NEC would say one thing or the other so we can make some plans.</p>
<p>BTW, thanks for the Priceline tip, OperaDad. We didn't do quite as well as you did, but we still got the Hyatt for $63. Considering I'd already booked the La Quinta for $66, I still feel pretty good about it.</p>
<p>Do try to avoid the breakfast at the Hyatt or you will consume all of the savings that you have achieved on the room!!!</p>
<p>Hi everyone. It's really great that so many of you have passed this hurdle and I congratulate you and your kids for the talent and hard work that got them there. I am writing this note for those who do not pass the prescreenings. My son did not get past prescreening for a school he was very interested in last year. Given his trajectory last year, I have no doubt that by the time of the live auditions, he would likely have been accepted at that school, but he wasn't at the right stage yet when he made the recording. We did not post on CC that he had not passed - he would not have wanted me to. It can look as though absolutely everyone is making prescreenings when in fact it is those who are successful who post. Just a reminder to those who didn't make it that there are lots of possible happy outcomes and you're not alone!</p>
<p>Well said, Stringfollies. We found it a huge--and badly needed after a couple of disappointments--boost to be accepted for the Oberlin audition. Having weathered the first of probably several storms, the good news was sweet. HOWEVER the audition road is a long one, and I doubt anyone here will not have their fair share of bumps in it. Compassion AND congratulations are going to be key for us--and for our buddies here on CC!</p>
<p>I will second stringfollies sentiments. Through an extraordinary series of events and a massive amount of hard work my DD just graduated from a school that had first declined her admission. As Sjth says "the audition road is a long one".....indeed.</p>
<p>For those of you who have already heard from Eastman- do they seem to be going by choice of audition date or even by alphebetical order? We are near the end of the alphabet and my D requested Feb. 20th so as not to conflict with other, already scheduled, auditions. Hoping someone can shed some light!</p>
<p>I can't figure it out. DS still has not gotten info on the audition date, although those asking for the Jan date have. And DS, who asked for Feb 6, did not hear until late in the evening after other voice performance folks reported. Presumably they have to work out a balance among the various voice performance dates, so you would think that they figured everything out first.</p>
<p>we haven't heard about jazz from Eastman either.</p>
<p>They process by Audition Date. The label for the prescreening materials has the audition date in the address. They sort them into boxes when they arrive. When checking that Eastman was the school with the date in the address, I realized I didn't put his instrument in the return address. I guess that didn't hurt - much.</p>
<p>That said, I would presume that each department processes their own prescreenings. So just because Voice majors have started to hear back doesn't mean that Violin majors should worry.</p>
<p>I'm guessing that they also sort into categories: Invite, don't invite, and waitlist. I would presume that they let the Invite and Don't Invite kids know right away. Once they have gone through all the applications for a certain date, they see how many slots are left, and fill up the schedule with waitlist applicants.</p>
<p>This implies that requesting an earlier audition date is beneficial That way, if your audition date fills up, they can put you in a later date. However, if you applied for the last audition date, they may not get to your file until after the first audition date, and if that was your alternative, you may be out of luck.</p>
<p>The Admissions guy at Eastman also said that once they approve your prescreening, the file is passed back to the Admissions office for a cursory review your academic credentials. That may delay sending out results if the student is academically weak or if a piece of the application is misfiled.</p>