I was reading a thread last night and now cant find it, (that’s what I get for reading CC so late at night) but someone offered to share their spreadsheet to keep track of all the research. PM me if you can help me out. Thanks! .
I just sent a PM
That was me. PM me with your email & I’ll send it to you. 
@MTmom2015 Yes I thought so!! Thank you! PM’d
@MTmom2015 I just sent you a PM. Thanks!
I would love to see how you organized your spreadsheet @MTmom2015 . I have tried starting one but not sure if it’s going to work.
Hello. I have been reading the forum for awhile and now have a D who is a rising senior and wants a BFA in MT. I have also started a spreadsheet to track all the schools and requirements; however, it would be helpful to see another example. Can someone explain how to PM someone?
@MTmom2015 could sell that sheet!
@songndancemom – I believe you have to have a certain number of posts before you are able to send and receive PMs.
I’m having trouble including everything in a spreadsheet because the schools have such different criteria.
I agree!! @MTmom2015 has the MOST incredible spreadsheet I have ever seen! It was a HUGE help to us last year keeping all of this stuff straight!
I used a spreadsheet as a reference point, but I also needed hard copies. I’m an out of sight, out of mind person kind of person
Same here, @entertainersmom. I also had to add highlighting (not the digital kind) and post-it notes - the extra “visual clutter” is helpful to me. Information lined up in nice, neat boxes that are easily edited is essential, but by the end, I had two 4-inch binders with plastic sleeves, pocket folders, colored post-it tabs sticking out all over. Groups of papers held together with indutrial-sized binder clips (none of those mamby, pamby regular clips). Post-its framing the computer monitor. Digital organization and sharing is an awesome thing, but nothing beats scribbling on a post-it and being able to stick it anywhere you want - bathroom mirror, suitcase handle, S’s backpack and place at the kitchen table, front door, . . .
We also used both–a spreadsheet for audition details, and hard copy sheets for program details. We liked holding those hard copies in our hands, filing in D’s file box, writing new notes directly on them by hand, etc.
I am not great at computer charts so currently I am doing a binder with a section for each school.
I put all our spreadsheets into google docs just incase we lost our binder I could have access at Unifieds. I also put a copy of my d’s resume and headshot in the cloud as well so that we could print out from anywhere.
I did something similar. I put the headshot, resume and audition materials on a thumb drive. We were printing a headshot from it the night before my S’s CMU audition. For some reason, he had taken his headshots out of his audition binder, packed the binder and left the headshots on the kitchen table!
Oh no!
S went to OTA unifieds last January with one copy of resume and headshot. He said, “that’s all I need, Mom”. NOT. Thankfully, the wonderful staff allowed him to download/print on the office printer.
It’s good to have headshot, resume and SONGS (sheet music and backing track) on a cloud somewhere that you can pull down whenever needed (we used dropbox). You need to plan for the unexpected.