<p>Are any of you aware of schools that let you re-audition a couple of months later (with new material) if you don't make it in the first time? Has anyone ever heard of someone making it in with the re-audition? </p>
<p>My daughter did not make it into a BFA at a particular school, and she called to see if she could minor in theatre and audition again for the major once at the school. She was told that she could actually re-audition this year...but I guess I'm just thinking that if they already rejected her, then what would change...unless she suddenly is very different from what they remembered last time.</p>
<p>Uhm, I’d be very wary about pinning a lot of hope on attending a school that rejected me for a BFA with the hope of reaudtioning. Hopefully, she has better options.</p>
<p>Most programs accept a small number of transfers, but your daughter shouldn’t presume that she will have better luck next year. She might have a slight advantage as an “insider,” with a sense of the department’s culture, but if it’s a selective BFA program, it will be no less selective down the road.</p>
<p>I don’t think this particular program would be considered super competitive. (I think they accept one in four initially.) After I posted, I phoned and was told that many kids who re-audition do make it in…but I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with this when I initially posted. Then I realized that since we’re talking College Confidential, probably most of you have kids who are stellar, have been accepted to many high quality programs, and/or are going to highly competitive theatre programs, and probably can’t relate to this kind of situation.</p>
<p>I am not sure I completely understand the question. Do you mean re-auditioning the next academic year after matriculating as a student in another major on the same campus, re-auditioning the next academic year after taking a gap year (or after attending another school as a student… trying to transfer to the auditioned school), or re-auditioning for September 2012 in March 2012 for a school that did not admit her to the program when she auditioned for September 2012 in November of 2011?</p>
<p>I don’t think I understand it either (not because I’m breathing such rarefied CC air, it’s just not that clear!) But it seems to me that if the school welcomes a re-audition, under whatever circumstance, and your D wants to do it, she should. It shows she has a real dedication, and it’s perfectly possible that she can have developed her skills in the past few months, become more mature, and most importantly, become more confident so that she can show herself well in an audition. It’s true that a 25% acceptance rate is good for a theater school…but it’s still pretty competitive!!!</p>
<p>Well, it sounds like she’s planning to minor in theater and reaudition for the major in fall so maybe it’s BA in theater arts with an auditioned BFA. I actually considered this scenario for about a second and a half, and know quite a few students who view this as a safety option. But it seems to me that most schools will tell you that you can audition for almost anything and unless something dramatic happened to change you a lot in a couple of months I don’t know why the outcome would be any different. I would not be comfortable at a school where I was rejected.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how other schools do this, but I am a freshman in the Theatre Department at BSU, and plenty of students come here as BA Theatre Studies majors because they “re-audition” at the first on-campus program auditions with the incoming freshmen, with the hopes of being accepted either into the Acting or Musical Theatre options. Only a few, if any, are accepted at the semester, and there may be a few students included in the next year’s freshman class. For some that have posted previously, this sounds like a turn-off, but this option does work well for many!</p>
<p>Just to clarify, I was talking about re-auditioning <em>this</em> year again (first time was in the fall) for admission to a BFA Theatre Program in fall of 2012.</p>
<p>Of course there are callbacks, when they specifically invite people back that they are interested in.</p>
<p>I have also heard of auditors taking pity on a talented student who had just picked completely inappropriate audition material and told him to come back with something else.</p>
<p>I have a hard time seeing how a college that has denied an APPLICATION could turn around and accept a second application from that same applicant for the same semester/term that they were already denied.</p>
<p>I know a kid who auditioned for a BFA in acting at a program and was rejected and came back a month or two later and reauditioned and is now there. So don’t say it doesn’t happen. The school is Point Park.</p>