Are they in housing provided by Marymount ?
I have nothing against audition coaching companies. Nothing at all. However, as I have said before, it is possible to get help with local people on prepping audition materials. My D worked with her voice teacher on her songs and for about 5 months worked with someone in Vermont on her monologues (we had no acting classes or programs where we lived). Things worked out fine. My feeling is that it is helpful to get artistic coaching on audition materials whether it is through local people or national coachesā¦the main thing is that those helping the student prepare their materials have actually worked with others who have sought college theater programs.
Funny you should say this seeing you chased away one of the more insightful participants in the early Class of '25 threads because he had the temerity to state he was disappointed for kids who would not have summer intensive experiences due to COVID. In my humble opinion, your version of adding value to this site is to make sure everyone will never foget how hard the audition season it was on the class of '24.
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@mtdad2025 - thanks for the revisionist history, luckily no one else shares āyour humble opinionā 
Maybe all those who thank me repeatedly will now come to my defense & put you in your place LMAO
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@dharmawins I agree with you. Thatās why I was saying it is important that when working with someone assisting the student on audition prep that the person be quite familiar with the college audition process and have helped others through it. That could be a local person or a national coaching service.
Agreed! My D worked with a friend of mine in South Africa who is a wonderful Shakespearean actress and received invaluable help!
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Yes! We just donāt have that locally here. At least if we do I didnāt know how to find it.
@dharmawins Right, many people may not be able to find local help to prep songs and monologues! And that is one great thing about some national or regional coaches as they are accessible no matter where you live! For my D, who took voice lessons for five years prior to college, she just worked on her song prep for college auditions with the same voice teacher. He had taught at a well known school in NYC and has worked with many in this field from kids through professionals. He lived in our state on weekends, at the time, and about an hour from us. For the monologue prep, my kid kinda lucked out because normally weād not have had anyone to help with that, but our voice teacherās colleague at the NYC school he worked out, was an acting teacher at that school and he also lived in our state (Vermont) on weekends, and so that was a connection to be made and my D worked with him on weekends during the fall of her admissions year. Both these people were very experienced in the field as teachers in NYC, but luckily lived in Vermont on weekends, which is where my kids grew up.
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no words, really. You know how grateful I am for all you have offered. Especially at that moment when I was sure catastrophe was coming.
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I also think though crafting an appropriate college list and then making adjustments as results start to come in are tasks that are just as important to get help with as the prepping of songs and monologues.
DD goes to a very well regarded prep school, but the college guidance department had literally NO IDEA how to help figure out the college list for her.
They are fabulous with ānormalā kids, but had not a clue what to do with this process.
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@dharmawins Happy to have helped & super happy for your outcome with several choices, somehow sharing the struggles we ALL endure has become a bad thing interpreted as my " adding value is by citing how hard class of '24 was"??!! how delusional can one be?!
EVERY YEAR IS HARD
2025 all remote was incredibly hard, Ive said more than once my kid thrived on the in person interaction & im not sure how she would have fared this yearā¦im not sure how my words got so twisted and warply misrepresented?!
kind of why I started with no words! 
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There is MUCH more to this process than artistic coaching on songs and monologues for sure! I mean, I am an independent college counselor who works on every step of the process except prepping the audition materials. Iām not an actor or singer! My students who are pursuing MT (not all are pursuing MT, but it is a specialty of mine), are ALSO working with song and monologue coaches for the artistic coaching aspect, or even SAT or ACT tutors for the test prep. That leaves all the other very very important aspects of the college selection and admissions process, and most school based counselors either have too many students to work with, along with responsibilities other than college counseling, and in the case of MT colleges, are not well versed on the programs or the process of applying. So, yes, song and monologue coaching alone is just one piece of the whole thing.
thank you for saying this, glad to know we have helped you & others
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Hello MT parent friends! My kiddo was going through this process last year for acting, but I hung out on the MT boards because there is so much conversation here. I needed the empathy for the process we were all going through. Some of those conversations got heatedā¦ but things calmed down in the end. It will all be OK.
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@prarie yes it did turned out great, yes it did 
@prarie Yup! I realize it is overwhelming and stressful for parents and students while going through the admissions process, but I wish they could know that their kids will survive and something turns out in the end. Things will work out. Theyāll get to the other side of this. When their kids are in college, this will be a distant memory and will not matter much in the long run.
Then, they can worry about summer jobs and getting work after graduation, LOL!
I think that itās easy to say ākids will surviveā and that parents should not worry but the truth is the stakes are high. The stress is there because there are real life implications to the decisions that we makeā¦
I think what you are trying to say is that for many, there will be surprising benefits to alternate paths and surprising adjustments to a change of plans. But there will be kids who find themselves in the wrong situations in a variety of ways, and while they may all physically survive, letās not pretend the stakes are not high financially or emotionally. The key will be to employ as much of an open mind, as possible, and to find and nurture our collective ability to adjust, to have patience, to be resilient and especially to course correct if it proves necessary.
Good luck to all our kiddos.
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Hereās the 2025 Final Decision board. Itās also pinned to the top. Looking forward to hearing everyoneās story over there! Final MT Decisions Background - Class of 2025 
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Not now - Last year she was in the 55th St dorm. This year she got an apartment near the 72nd St campus.
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