Hey everyone. A lot of my friends who also auditioned for MT schools have told me to send “follow-up” emails to the schools I have auditioned at thanking them for the opportunity. I have only done this to a couple of schools who emailed ME first.
Should I send these follow up emails to the others or is that just “pushing” it? I don’t want to cross any lines or sound completely desperate to get into their program.
Thoughts? Please help! I do not know what to do.
My S sent thank you notes only to those programs that he really was strongly interested in. He kept it short and sweet and did not ask any questions in the email. He maybe sent four emails out of his twenty plus auditions. All the schools he emailed sent emails back. One or two of the response emails were highly engaging and they connected my son with students or other faculty - the others were kind but less personal. It never hurts to send a thank you as long as you keep it short and to the point. But if you choose not to, that is just fine too. It never hurts to thank you in life when an experience truly impacted you.
Yes! I agree that you should send them to those schools you are really interested in for sure. If you have not heard either way from a school, it probably means you are still in the running and in that case you should also send a thank you note. Or you could send an email that says something along the lines of “thank you again for the great audition experience, I wanted to let you know that X university is still my top choice and I would love to be a part of the program.” We are all trying to play a numbers game - how many students do we accept in order to get the class size we want? If we have several students on the waitlist that are equal with all other things considered, we are most likely to move up the student we have heard from. Why? Because we would rather accept the student we know is going to come than take a chance that the next student we move-up from the waitlist is not seriously considering us and we could have to wait a month or more and then go back to the waitlist again.
Hope that helps! ~VT