<p>Hey people,
I know I already posted this on another thread, but I am hoping that more people will see it this way. I need help. I am a sophomore at UC Berkeley and I want to transfer. They only do 3 main stage shows a year here and you can only take 5 acting classes total for the major. Plus they do no musicals. Can somebody help me get out of here? I really want to transfer to a school with a strong musical theater major but most of them only accept 2 or 3 transfer students per year. So far I know that NYU takes 80 into the drama major, but very few into Cap. But that's all i know, does anybody know any schools that take more than 3 transfer students? Please help me!</p>
<p>This post is from Elon on another thread</p>
<p>We do accept transfer students. Please send me your mailing address to <a href="mailto:krippy@elon.edu">krippy@elon.edu</a> and I will mail you an audition packet.</p>
<p>good luck,
xxx,Mary Anna</p>
<p>What about Cal State Fullerton?</p>
<p>Can I assume that you got into Berkeley strictly on academics (not through an audition or sports scholarship, etc.)? If so, you must have had very high stats and must have spent some serious time in high school focusing on academics. I think it would be easier to offer some help if we knew a little more about you. How much training and experience do you have in voice, acting, and dance? I was thinking maybe you have some dance training since I saw your post about the Tisch advanced dance audition, but because you wondered what is advanced I would assume you aren't an advanced dancer (advanced dancers usually know that they are, in fact, advanced). Have you taken voice lessons? Do you take them now at Berkeley? What's your major at Berkeley? Are you prepared to give up a degree from a school like Berkeley to get a degree from virtually any old school just because it accepts transfers into its MT program? I am SO sorry if I missed the answers to any of these questions in your posts!</p>
<p>Thanks for helping me guys. I do have musical theater expirience. I started acting when i was 5, so that would be 15 years now. I started voice lessons about 10 years ago (and yes i have a great voice teacher at berkeley). And i started dancing about 12 years ago. I have taken jazz, ballet, and modern mainly. The department at berkeley is only modern so i have been doing that for a year now. So I am currently in advanced modern at cal (which is for an hour and a half everyday mon-fri) so i am in pretty good shape. I have been in 31 musicals, 5 vocal performances, 10 ballet shows, and 9 plays i believe.
I actually got into cal the sneaky way. I have a learning disability and when you apply to the UC system and you have an LD they look at your grades and test scores in comparison to how bad your LD is and they accept you based on that. So in high school i had a B+/A- average and really, really, really bad test scores (i think i got a 1080 in the SAT 1). At berkeley i have a 3.2 GPA, i am on the model un traveling team, and i am currently in the student directed one acts. Yeah so i am going for a theater major and dance minor if i stay here. But musical theater has been my whole life and I really want to turn my direction around and transfer into a musical theater major somewhere. I am fine with leaving berkeley and going wherever if they have a good musical theater program. My parents have both said that i have proven myself academically and that they support me transfering. So that's helpful. I hope that gives you some info about me.<br>
And thanks Mary Anna, I will definatly email you!</p>
<p>I can see you definitely know what you want and what you need! You've done a good job piecing things together for yourself at Berkeley. I think a lot of the MT programs accept transfers. A couple of years ago, on CC, it looked like Tisch was one of the only ones, but more and more I am seeing a post here and there about it. So I think you're ok. Samia has already done her research on this, so you might look at the schools she has on her list. Most recently, I just read the bios of the freshmen at the University of Oklahoma's MT program and several of them were transfers from other colleges. One of the students auditioning Oct. 24 was a student from NYU. Also, OCU definitely takes transfers because Shauna who posts here was an MT major at UNT who transferred to OCU. They also accept videotaped auditions at OCU, in case travel is difficult for you since you're in school right now. And Chrisr's suggestion about Fullerton is a good one since they don't audition students for the program until the end of sophomore year, and I'll bet Fullerton (I mean academically) would be happy to get a Berkeley student. I'll bet other people have ideas of east coast schools that accept transfers, if you want east coast.</p>
<p>I'm auditioning as a transfer at the following schools:</p>
<p>University of Michigan
Boston Conservatory
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Penn State
Florida State
Ithaca College
Point Park University
Otterbein College
Elon University</p>
<p>They all accept transfer students, although not very many. Boston Conservatory said they accept about 6 transfers every year, and many accept only 2 or 3. But think about it this way - there are FAR fewer people auditioning as a transfer student than as a new freshman. When you think about it, the odds actually aren't all that different if you compare the numbers relatively.</p>
<p>Cal State Fullerton lets you start as a junior when you transfer as long as you have...eek, Eve posted this, and I can't remember exactly, but it's something like 2 acting classes, 2 voice & movement classes and a script analysis class or something. That's not exactly right, you should search for her original post (ProfHimmelheber), but it's something like that.</p>
<p>A lot of schools will let you start as a sophomore but not as a junior. And some schools force you to start as a freshman no matter how many credits you've racked up - Carnegie Mellon requires ALL transfers to start as freshman. Most of the other schools make judgements like that on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Hi..I believe I replied last time to your post.</p>
<p>Oklahoma City University considers and accepts transfer students for the MT department. There is no limit as how many transfers OCU will accept. Be talented and be good. And we have several CA people here (even from the SF Bay Area). PM me if you'd like info.</p>
<p>Samia525,</p>
<p>I know you didn't ask, but your list looks like all very competitive schools. Are you going to have any safety schools, maybe 1 non-audition school?</p>
<p>Oh Samia I heart you right now. I actually have a very similar list. But I am applying to NCSA too (they said they take transfers). I am fine with starting as a sophomore, but starting as a freshman is pushing it in terms of money. Where do you go to school right now?
Ok, so I have thought of alot more questions. I don't know if this is the place to ask or not but im going to anyway. Sorry I know I have a lot but I have no contacts over here to help me out with this (my voice teacher usually teaches opera and told me to sing phantom for the auditions to paint a picture). Is it true that you need a book of 10 or so backup songs to choose from in case the auditioners want to see more? And also about performing your own dance at some of the auditions are there rules in terms of the music you choose? Can you use music from the "do not use list" to dance to? Thanks you guys are helping me out sooo much.</p>
<p>I'm pretty confident about my chances at getting accepting to several of the schools I'm auditioning at. Last time around, I got into two out of the seven schools I auditioned at, and I did EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING, wrong. I didn't know how to dress, how to do makeup, how to wear my hair, nothing. Basically, I looked just awful, and sang all the wrong songs, and did all the wrong monologues, and I still got into two schools.</p>
<p>This time around, I'm gonna look great, sing the right songs and do the right monologues, and I've got 2 years of BFA MT training and a hell of a lot more confidence than I had before. I think I will do pretty well with the list I have.</p>
<p>Also, I have absolutely no interest in attending a non-audition program for two reasons. First, I want BFA training - conservatory-style and intensive. Second, I want the degree to make my resume look better than it does now, and a BFA MT from a respected school is the best way to do that.</p>
<p>Opranoodlemantra - I was at the University of Arizona from 2000-2003, but their program just didn't jive well with me, so I've been doing voice-over work in Seoul, Korea to save up enough money to transfer to a better school. As for your question about back-up songs, yes, it's great idea to have an audition book filled with 8-10 (or however many you can perform really well) just in case they want to see something else.</p>