question about ACTING auditions

College Majors Theater/Drama Majors
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<p>Hello!
This is my second year of college auditions. Im currently at Western Carolina, and I'm looking for a conservatory to transfer to. I'm auditioning for UNCSA, CCPA, The Hartt School, and Shenandoah. All of these schools offer something different that I want. I was wondering if anyone on here could just tell me some things about these schools, if you go there, or have auditioned there. </p>

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<li>What are the class sizes like?</li>
<li>What is the audition process like? </li>
<li>Is there only one style/ method taught?</li>
<li>How is the relationship between the acting majors and the musical theatre majors (be honest please)?</li>
<li>What are the available internship opportunities?</li>
<li>HOW IS RESIDENTIAL LIVING? (I live in a piece of crap dorm now, so its pretty important haha)</li>
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<p>if you could just hit those points, that would be great! Im just looking for some information from students, or ANY views on these schools from people who have auditioned/visited before. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I only know answers for Hartt-- they look for an acting class of 12-15, so class sizes are small. The audition process (at the school)-- you do your pieces and are then interviewed by a panel of faculty-- D had three auditors including Alan Rust, dept. chair. They have a “toolbox” approach-- that is they teach many different methods, and work through all the different periods in theater. The dorms looked perfectly nice, if very typical! And as she’s not a student yet I can’t answer the others. I’m sure others will add (you can also look at the Hartt thread on the MT board…there’s a Shenandoah thread there too.)</p>

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<p>thank you! I’ll go look through those. </p>

<p>Im assuming your daughter auditioned already? was it for AT or MT?</p>

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<p>She auditioned for AT and was accepted…waiting to hear from others but really, really likes Hartt. </p>

<p>(Was going to mention-- UNCSA has no MT program so there won’t be conflict between AT and MT).</p>