rejections 2009

<p>I got into Evansville as a performance major, I'm still waiting to hear from NCSA and CMU. I auditioned a long time ago for SUNY and got a call back. I haven't gotten a rejection from them yet and they were supposed to call me this week, but they haven't yet. I heard that rejections are supposed to go out very soon after an audition, so I'm kinda confused. I guess I'm going to call them tomorrow. Is anyone else in this situation?</p>

<p>SUNY Purchase contacted me by phone about a month ago saying that they were still interested in me...other than that it has been silence. I am assuming that they are sending out letters, and it might be down to the wire. Best of luck, though.</p>

<p>Rejections from the Julliard, SUNY Purchase, and SMU. Accepted into University of Illinois (BFA), Rutgers, Evansville, and Fordham.</p>

<p>My son was rejected from Mason Gross last week, it was a top choice but we knew it was a long shot with the numbers being so impossible. Good news came when he was accepted to the BA Theater program at SUNY New Paltz (required an audition) I don't read a lot about the New Paltz program on college confidential. Any thoughts about the NP theater program?</p>

<p>My daughter has received formal rejections from RSAMD and LAMDA. But.... she did not get a callback at the Juilliard audition so I suppose that is as good as a rejection. At the USC audition they only wanted to see/hear one monologue so I suppose that is also as good as a rejection.
She got a callback from RADA and we have not heard from them and she got a callback from Purchase and we have not heard from them.</p>

<p>Marius - if the schools that you auditioned for are not rolling admissions schools, or schools that notify students before the April 1st date that many schools use, the fact that you have not yet heard us not a bad thing at all. Many schools will not notify students until April 1st. This time of year is very hard. I would suggest that you try. To focus on the positive. No news may be good news. Hang in there! The waiting will be over soon :)</p>

<p>rbwriter - I have hard good things about the theater program at New Paltz but I have no first hand knowledge of it. However, my son transferred there this past semester and is having a really good experience. I think New Paltz is a great school and has so much going for it. If I can answer any questions about the school in general for you feel free to ask.</p>

<p>LilyMoon, thanks so much for any information on New Paltz. In all my searches on Theater/Drama MT it never comes up... we were very impressed with the program when we visited. Do you or your son know anyone in the NP Theater dept? Does the school empty out on weekends? We were there on a Saturday and the place was dead (even after noon). My son is a creative kind of kid, would be looking for kids who maybe play in bands and such. How does your son like the professors? classes? I know these are alot of questions, any bits of info will be appreciated. thanks!</p>

<p>My daughter received a rejection letter from DePaul today, and from Otterbein a few weeks ago. She has 2 acceptances (Indiana BA and U. of Illinois BFA) and was invited to the Guthrie call-back. She's still waiting to hear from 10 schools (including the final Guthrie decision).</p>

<p>Same here, TheatreMom...I recieved a rejection from DePaul today...she made a callback to the Guthrie...THE GUTHRIE...and did not get accepted to DePaul?!?!?!?!?
...interesting...then again, I thought their audition method was strange...congratulations to her!</p>

<p>TimThom, sorry to hear about your bad news, but what happened to your daughter is not as unusual as you may think! If you read back through threads like this (drama and MT) you will see that plenty of kids have what I guess I would call "inconsistent results." They may, for instance, get offered admission to (making this up here!) Carnegie Mellon and then not University of the Arts. They may get into Minnesota/Guthrie and then be rejected by Wagner. It doesn't make sense to those going through it or to those reading about it, but it sometimes helps to remember that each school is building a class in addition to trying to just accept the most talented individuals that come their way Furthermore, a kid who is really talented may have a great audition at one school one day and just not be at their best another. So even really talented kids' performances vary from day to day and from audition to audition.</p>

<p>What was so weird about the DePaul audition? Several people have said that now ...</p>

<p>I totally agree with NMR. The other thing too is the amount of time you have to make a personal connection with the adjudicators. The one school I have been accepted to - Rutgers - Mason Gross, I had a fantastic conversation with the faculty members. The school I was rejected at so far - CalArts, I didn't even talk to the male auditor. In fact, right when I walked in the room he got out of his chair and said I have to go pee and ran to the bathroom for like 8 minutes... haha. i just stood and waited and he came back and finished righting his comments about the person before me. and just seemed uninterested from the get go. I mean, as hard as it is to make yourself believe, the schools do take looks into consideration as well. But all in all, I believe we will really all end up where we are meant to be. I still have 4 schools to hear from. But lucky for me, Rutgers trumps calarts for me. And, is tied for my number one choice. I just have to go visit! The other school I love has been visited and that is why I like it!</p>

<p>Notmamarose</p>

<p>The Depaul audition was a different experience</p>

<p>You started out with the information session (where you learned about the 25 MANDATORY cut, which i personally think is ridiculous)
Then a warm up session, which consisted of a things like walking sporadically around the room, not touching anyone, not noticing anyone, and then moving to the floor, and then moving back to your feet on the count of 10, then 9, then 8, then 7, then.....</p>

<p>he made us stare at our partners and have our hands move together.. "no one leading, No one following" and then suddenly burst into an action that "neither thought of or created, it just happened"</p>

<p>we had to vocalize and put action to the words "to bless" and other things</p>

<p>ect. ect.</p>

<p>then audition, you're one monologue</p>

<p>then they paired you up... and when you walked in gave you strange lines like</p>

<p>A) you're criminal
B) you're just figuring that out?
A) I don't believe you, show me
B) There... are you satisfied?
A) No...yes... I don't know
B) Then?.... No problem</p>

<p>and then we had to feel the scene with our partner... discover what the pretenses were</p>

<p>and you had to keep repeating the lines over and over again.. but the story had to progress </p>

<p>They said it was example of what their classes would be like... but it was a little different</p>

<p>NYQ, I don't think that it is a surprise to anyone (or should be a surprise to anyone!) that what you look like matters, and matters a lot, in the college drama/MT auditions process. As an actor and performer, your looks/body/talent (from within of course) is all you have. It's you on the stage, so the way you look matters for sure. </p>

<p>That's not to say that everyone needs to be a raving beauty or startlingly handsome. In acting, there is room for a wide range of looks, from conventionally beautiful to interesting. (Just watch any contemporary TV show and you will know what I mean.) But yes, how you look is one piece of the puzzle.</p>

<p>Re the Depaul audition work with partners.........um, I'm only a mom and haven't read the book or anything, but could these have been Meisner exercises?</p>

<p>Nick, it's interesting to hear about the Depaul audition. It sounds a lot like some of the things one of my D's h/s teachers did in class (she attended an arts h/s). I hadn't heard of any BFA program in the U.S. using those techniques in an audition setting. The Univ. of Toronto drama program uses a similar process, although it is entirely improv, from start to finish. There is no prep of monologues, songs, etc. You just show up at your assigned time and you, and the ~15-20 others in your group, spend 2-3 hours together in improv exercises. Pretty interesting and a lot of fun for those who have some experience in intense drama classes, but probably pretty stressful for a lot of kids who have not experienced it before.</p>

<p>hey did you visit evansville? are you considering it?</p>

<p>alwaysamom, the high school my D attended (public arts magnet) had a similar audition process to the one your D attended. First, kids came in with a monologue prepared and did that in front of a panel of 7 auditors. Those who were called back returned on a different day and did a bunch of group improv exercises, during which they had to work together in a way that sounds similar to the DePaul audition.</p>

<p>My son received a "no thank you" from Cornish and Ithaca. Accepted at NCSA and University of Miami. All auditions done at the L.A. Unifieds.</p>

<p>NJTheatre, they are in Viola Spolin's book. DePaul is faithful to Spolin</p>