<p>*We’ve made some small but significant changes in our application process for this year, most notably a requirement that students be admitted to the College before they audition. Not before they request an audition date, just to clarify, but before we actually see them. Here’s a draft version of what we plan to put on our website and send to prospects. I’d appreciate responses from you diligent readers, so that we can make editorial changes. Thanks!</p>
<p>doctorjohn*</p>
<p>Otterbein College
Department of Theatre and Dance
August, 2007</p>
<p>Here is the process for applying for admission to Otterbein Colleges BFA programs in </p>
<p>**Acting
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre with a Concentration in Dance **</p>
<p>Step One: Apply for admission to Otterbein College</p>
<p>Fill out the application (<a href=“http://www.otterbein.edu/admission/applying/applying.asp[/url]”>http://www.otterbein.edu/admission/applying/applying.asp</a>) and submit your official high school and/or college transcripts and your official test scores, either ACT or SAT. If you wish to be considered for additional scholarships, write a 500 word essay. (There are prompts which you may use, or you may submit an essay youve already written.) We strongly encourage all applicants to do this!</p>
<p>You must submit an application form before we can schedule your audition. Deadline for submitting applications is February 1, 2008. But we strongly encourage you to apply sooner.</p>
<p>Students may apply for admission on-line now. The $25 fee for paper applications is waived if you apply on-line. Review of applications will begin in mid-October.</p>
<p>Step Two: Request an audition date</p>
<p>Once youve submitted your application, you may e-mail Harriet Hill, our audition coordinator (<a href=“mailto:hhill@otterbein.edu”>hhill@otterbein.edu</a>) and request an audition date. Decide whether you wish to audition on-campus or at one of the unified sites. In your e-mail request, please include your full name, mailing address, telephone number, the BFA program you are interested in, and your preferred audition date.</p>
<p>There is no audition charge for on-campus auditions, but there is a new $25 fee for the Unified Auditions. This is to help cover our expenses in sending faculty to these sites to see auditions. Ms Hill will respond by e-mail with your audition date (and for Unified Auditions, the specific audition time). If you audition for us at the Unified Auditions in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, the $25 fee is due at the time of your audition. Make checks payable to Otterbein College and put audition fee in the note field.</p>
<p>BFA Acting auditions are held on the following dates:
Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday, February 1, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008 </p>
<p>BFA Musical Theatre auditions are held on the following dates:
Friday, November 30, 2007
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008</p>
<p>**National Unified Audition Dates, 2008:<a href=“all%20degree%20programs”>/b</a>
New York - February 2-3, 2008
Chicago - February 4-6, 2008
Los Angeles - February 9-10, 2008 </p>
<p>For more information about the Unified auditions, go here: <a href=“http://www.unifiedauditions.com%5B/url%5D”>www.unifiedauditions.com</a>.</p>
<p>**You must request an audition date by February 1, 2008. ** Since you cannot request an audition date until youve applied, this means that you have to apply for admission no later than February 1. See Step One, above. </p>
<p>Harriet Hill will begin responding to requests for auditions after September 15, 2007.</p>
<p>Step Three: Complete your application for admission</p>
<p>Make sure that your test scores and transcripts have been submitted and that your file is complete. You may check with Debbie Byrne, our admissions liaison (<a href=“mailto:dbyrne@otterbein.edu”>dbyrne@otterbein.edu</a>). She will be happy to tell you your status. Once your file is complete, you will be notified within two weeks whether you have been admitted to the College. Admission to the College does not constitute acceptance by any program in Theatre, Music or Dance, but it is a necessary pre-requisite.</p>
<p>You must be admitted to the College prior to your audition. This is a new rule for us this year, because we have encountered too many problems with incomplete applications in March, when were trying to make decisions about the class. Given that the College can process applications in two weeks, this requirement should not be difficult. But you must plan in advance. </p>
<p>The only exception to this rule will be walk-ins at the Unified Auditions. Walk-ins will have to apply for admission within one week after their audition. </p>
<p>Step Four: Audition</p>
<p>The audition requirements are described in detail on our website, at <a href=“http://www.otterbein.edu/admission/talent/theatre_dance.asp[/url]”>http://www.otterbein.edu/admission/talent/theatre_dance.asp</a>. </p>
<p>You can also see a detailed description of the audition itself at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78857[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78857</a>.</p>
<p>See Auditioning for Otterbein, Part One and Part Two. The only difference is that the time limit on auditions is now three minutes, not four.</p>
<p>Step Five: Notification</p>
<p>In order to keep students better informed, the faculty will review the auditions and send you notification of your status. The status letter will indicate either that we are (1) keeping you under consideration for the class entering in the fall of 2008, or that (2) we are releasing you from consideration. No offers of acceptance to the BFA programs in Acting, Musical Theatre, and Musical Theatre/Dance will be made until all auditions have been seen.</p>
<p>Students auditioning in November, January and February will be notified of their status within three weeks of their audition. Students auditioning in March will not receive a separate status notification letter, but will be informed, along with the applicants held for consideration from earlier auditions, of their final status by April 1, 2008.</p>
<p>If you have been held for consideration, or you have auditioned in March, you will receive a final status letter. In it, you may be offered acceptance to the program you auditioned for, or offered acceptance to another program (BFA in Acting, BA in Theatre, BA in Music, BA in Music Education, Dance Minor), or put on a waiting list, or not offered acceptance. Those offered acceptance will have until May 1, 2008 to accept or reject the offer. Those on the waiting list will be notified as close to May 1 as possible about their status.</p>
<p>Questions?</p>
<p>If you have questions about this process, you may contact Harriet Hill, our auditions coordinator, or Debbie Byrne, our admissions liaison, or Debbie Lee, our departmental administrative assistant. Theyll be happy to help.</p>
<p>Harriet Hill: <a href=“mailto:hhill@otterbein.edu”>hhill@otterbein.edu</a></p>
<p>Debbie Byrne: <a href=“mailto:dbyrne@otterbein.edu”>dbyrne@otterbein.edu</a>, 1-800-488-8144, or 614-823-1500.</p>
<p>Debbie Lee: 614-823-1657</p>
<p>Thanks for your interest in Otterbein College!</p>