<p>My D is a freshman BM major at the University of Colorado at Boulder (<a href="http://www.colorado.edu)%5B/url%5D">www.colorado.edu)</a>. She absolutely loves the place. When we went through the "lesson", application and audition process last year, we found the various deadlines arrived before we knew it. I thought perhaps a thread on prescreening CD dates and audition dates might be helpful. To get things started - </p>
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<li>Prescreening CD Voice - due December 1</li>
<li>Prescreening CD Piano - due December 1</li>
<li>Prescreening CD Flute - due December 15</li>
<li>Audition Dates for Fall 2009 Admission:
<p>This information is VERY valuable to have and certainly students MUST look at the deadlines. BUT there are thousands of colleges with these deadlines. Is it really reasonable to post them here or shouldn't we be telling students to get a calendar, and go to each college website and mark down the deadlines for THAT school??</p>
<p>Also, the dates (particularly for auditions) can change from year to year, so if this thread does take off do not rely on information from it beyond 2009. Due to the potential for typos, etc., I would suggest checking the dates with the school anyway. Perhaps a collection of links to that kind of information would be a better thing to collect here.</p>
<p>And the links often change from year to year as well. The most important info is to look early, plan a schedule, and allow plenty of time for practice and recording sessions. Also, mail early enough to allow a resend, and monitor receipt of the tape. Use a shipping method that allows for tracking.</p>
<p>Our experience was that a number of schools required it by the 1st of December. Noone we found was looking for it earlier than that. Once you've made it, you've got it, so my advisce would be to just shoot for 12/1 to have something as polished as you can make it. For my son, he was working so hard and improving so much that this cutoff hurt him - he was not able to audition at one school which might have taken him if they'd heard him in February/March. But that's just life.</p>
<p>This has been said before here: make a chart listing your schools and all the various deadlines--prescreen, application, scholarship cutoff, live audition window. I even gave my son a calendar to hang in his room so he could keep track of when the audtions would be.</p>
<p>Juilliard (as well as Mannes) also has a cut off date of Nov. 15 this year for SOME instruments. It has to do with the NY Phil going on tour during the usual audition time. I would recommend going to the website of every school you or your child is considering and making a chart or spread sheet with what each school requires and when it is due, because the requirements vary slightly from school to school. And do it now, because you don't want the stress of trying to get this done at the last minute!</p>
<p>An additional note. We also found schools changed dates up until December or restricted some of the posted dates to some instruments or voice. Dates we had planned to use for some schools disappeared and we had to reshuffle the schedule quickly. Until you have an acknowledgment from the school, you can't be sure.</p>
<p>Singermom is absolutely right. In fact, we had no confirmation from Indiana of the date of the audition until about 10 days in advance. Through prompting, we had been able to learn that he would get an audition at all about 3 weeks prior! Glad it worked out since that's where he's going to school now. Hold on tight - it's a bumpy ride!!</p>
<p>I had 3 working spreadsheet versions depending on when different schools auditions finally confirmed. And it still took on the fly changes when Rice dropped the last date. I took care of all that and the travel plans so DD could just focus on the auditions themselves. I took a chance on the cross country one and booked flights on a guess. The school was understanding and moved her date to Saturday when our flight did not land in time for the Friday time they had given us.</p>
<p>We started the spreadsheet process the spring of Junior year which was REALLY helpful. Had a few adjustments when fall started with dates/schools but not many. Also, S made a huge posterboard hard copy spreadsheet to hang up in his room - he took this to practice sessions and the final recording session. It was extremely helpful.</p>