<p>Is anyone familiar with schools that offer rolling admissions, vs those that are very set on March or April notification?
The more competitive schools that interest my daughter, a current junior, are Emerson, BOCO, Hartt, Tisch, Pace, Ithaca, Syracuse, Michigan, CCM, CMU... The dream list of reach schools! Obviously she will include the safety and non audition schools, but I was wondering, among her dream schools, do any offer rolling admissions?</p>
<p>CCM will let you know something a few weeks after you audition. If you are early in the process, it may be a hold or a wait list sort of thing if they are interested, but occasionally they do early acceptances. I believe Tisch will only do so if you apply Early Decision. I don’t think the rest on your list offer early decisions typically but there are are always exceptions. </p>
<p>If you search this site you will find when people were notified this past year. Tisch and I believe BOCO are at the very end and notify everyone on the same day by email. I wouldn’t say Ithaca is “rolling”. Some offers go out but they are late march early April, Syracuse has been going out in waves late march to mid April. I believe CCM lets you know within two weeks of auditioning and both CMU and Mich tend to be mid March</p>
<p>BW offers an early audition (november) where they will let you know in december</p>
<p>Ithaca does notify some accepted students earlier than late March – my son’s acceptance came on Feb. 25 after auditioning (on campus) on Feb. 1. And Emerson has Early Action, but accepts very few students from their December audition, instead deferring many to regular decision. </p>
<p>Hartt has an audition in December and will let you know their decision usually by the end of the month, though I believe some folks did not hear until January. All application components must be received by a date in November.</p>
<p>University of the Arts has rolling admission. We found out three weeks later. I do believe it took longer for some people though.</p>
<p>Montclair, the closest conservatory-style BFA MT program to Manhattan, has rolling admission.</p>
<p>Ugg I wish we didn’t live all the way across the country from these schools. We will be in NY but for mock auditions and D will NOT be ready to audition for her top picks at that time. We can’t take advantage of any rolling admissions and its bumming me out :(</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! This is so helpful!</p>
<p>U Mich was rolling at least in 2012. Isn’t it still rolling?</p>
<p>@evilqueen, you do not want to audition first for your daughter’s top picks. Hit them somewhere in the middle. The auditions get better after the kinks have been worked out, possibly material is rethought and jitters are calmed through experience. Don’t audition for top picks first. Huge mistake.</p>
<p>I know that is solid advice @halflokum, that is why she won’t be able to take advantage of rolling admissions, We aren’t going to fly somewhere she isn’t that excited about so its all going to happen during that one week in Chicago, Unless we go somewhere the weekend before or after Chicago Unifieds but the dates don’t seem to work for that, at least looking at last year.</p>
<p>As far as I know (not one of D’s auditions) Michigan let everyone know at one time- though it was earlier than some others- wasn’t it the 1st week in March this year?</p>
<p>Cornish has an audition in early December if you’re looking for a warm-up close to home.</p>
<p>Ohhh, @jkellynh17 great idea!! D doesn’t want to go there but it would be very easy to audition. </p>
<p>Michigan did not roll admissions this year - and my understanding has never been that they have had rolling admissions. Even their regular admissions are not rolling. They have an ED notification date (which MT can’t do) and then an RD date. One of Annie’s friends was WL for engineering - and was told she could find out as late as June 1st - but all her other classmates that gained admission to Michigan found out one of two dates. Most were deferred at ED - and then accepted at RD. MT notifications went out AFTER the RD decisions. Her friends all knew long before we had a decision - and calls went out to admitted MT students a day or two before emails for rejection and WL went out. (We live in Michigan - which is why I’m fairly familiar with their process.)</p>
<p>In 2012, Michigan pretty much would let you know the status of your audition approximately 3 weeks after your audition. As I recall, that was even written on their website then. </p>
<p>My son applied to U Michigan this year but not as an MT nor theatre person. He applied EA and decisions came out on a certain date and then anyone who was deferred heard in batches over a series of weeks or months. However, there was “noise” in the chatter of some one offs hearing outside of those batches and the rumor was that it was the theatre/MT folks who were hearing outside of the rest of the group. So are they still rolling? No idea but I’m quite sure about 2012. </p>
<p>@evilqueen - while Cornish auditions may be a good warm up but unless their on campus auditions are different then their unified auditions they are very different from any other audition my D did and really will not give you any clue what the other auditions are like. In fact last year they gave you the monologue they want you to do. So this would not even allow for you to practice your material. Definitely check for current information on that. My D really enjoyed the audition but it certainly was completely different than any of the others.</p>
<p>@broadway95 thank you for the heads-up, it does not sound like that would be helpful. I think what we will do is have her do the early date at Central Washington University which is a BFA MT that some of her friends attend that is only about 90 min away. She decided against it but they do have a traditional style audition process. </p>
<p>Emerson has an early audition date (I believe December); you will find out early, I think by end of December, but only if you apply early decision. </p>