<p>Wow! Lots of great news. Congratulations to dseader for D’s RSAMD acceptance and Julliard callback, and to emkolb for Guthrie callback.</p>
<p>Keeping fingers crossed for all the great kids who are through with Unifieds and waiting for good words.</p>
<p>Emmybet, LeftofPisa–do you know when your kids will hear back?</p>
<p>Yay, Emkolb!</p>
<p>and dseader, I have a friend who has a friend who’s daughter just got accepted to RSAMD…I wonder if we have mutual acquaintances? How many can there be?</p>
<p>It’ll be a while for my D madbean. Some of them might go right up to April 1. Time to plan a trip for the March school break!</p>
<p>maggie3 - My daughter’s audition at Purchase started at 8:00 as well. There were probably 50 kids. They broke them into 3-4 groups. Each group had a different room for auditions. It was very relaxed and they let the kids pretty much pick their order. They were done at about 10:30. Then they called 3 kids back. She did her monologues again. I believe there were six in the room watching. I think they were taping. They worked with her a little on one of her monologues, she was in maybe 15 minutes and then we left. She said she had a great time, enjoyed the people she worked with and loved the school. Overall it was one of her better audition experiences. In contrast, her audition at Emerson took about 10 minutes, there was little feedback and very few questions and then a thank you very much and she was done (and I’m thinking we flew all the way to Boston from Indiana for this?). The point is, these schools are all different and you just never know how it is going to go. Tell your daughter to just relax, have fun and do what she does best, perform.</p>
<p>We are DONE with auditions! D is so relieved - this was physically and emotionally really so hard. She’s literally singing now that it’s over.</p>
<p>And it’s almost March! The answers will really start to flow now. </p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Yay for auditions being over! It won’t be long now.</p>
<p>My D wrapped up her auditions this weekend too. I can tell you it was a very happy and visibly lighter girl singing in the seat beside me on the car ride home. For the moment she is very upbeat and philosophical about her chances and her options and confident in her own abilities and path whatever the result. I couldn’t wish for the audition season to end on a better note. </p>
<p>Lots of good thoughts to everyone as we await news.</p>
<p>I’ll just share our story about D’s Adelphi acceptance, because I’m so happy for her, but also for next year’s kids who follow these threads. </p>
<p>First, she auditioned last Friday. They very kindly made a personal appointment with her. She met with people in the dept, and with Nick, the dept head. She also got to chat with some students around the office and ask questions. Then she and Nick went off to do the monologues. After that, she had an interview with the Honors College (more on that in a moment), and we got some lunch at the student union. They had invited her to sit in on a rehearsal for their current play in the afternoon, and she spent a very enjoyable couple of hours watching scenes, watching their physical combat professor work with students on various physical moments in the play, and checking out the beautiful set. She continued to like the program, like what she saw among the students, in the facilities, with the professors, and people were very friendly and welcoming to her as they had been last year.</p>
<p>I thought this was encouraging, but of course there are no promises. What they did promise was to give her an immediate answer, meaning mailing a letter early this week once they had straightened everything out academically, etc. Today she got two “little” letters - one from the Theatre Dept and one from the Honors College. I was worried, since all of her other acceptances have been “big” envelopes, except her Guthrie rejection. But none of them have been departmental before, so I guess in retrospect it makes sense.</p>
<p>I had to wait 5 hours for her to come home from rehearsal and open them. She was so happy! She said the little letters made her nervous, too, but immediately she knew all was well! Nick wrote a nice little note at the bottom, too. </p>
<p>Adelphi offers an Honors College opportunity to students with GPAs over 3.5, ACTs at least 26 and SATs something like 1800+. They take 75 students per class (out of a university of over 5000 students). The program is run on a Great Books basis - mostly focused on reading and writing, humanities, the arts and social sciences, not so much physical or biological science. Many theatre majors do it, if they are academically inclined, and we spoke to one girl who says it’s been very rewarding. The theatre dept loves it and works around it very respectfully. There’s a theatre capstone project and an honors thesis - which they have theatre students combine into one culminating project (usually a play or performance of some kind). Honors classes replace most of the gen ed requirements and are usually 1 class per semester. My D thought it sounded wonderful. </p>
<p>She is very proud to have gotten into an auditioned program! Now we will await the many more answers yet to come. I know this will settle many of her fears and keep her excited through the next few weeks.</p>
<p>EmmyBet, wonderful recap, and wonderful result! This information is going to be so valuable to next year’s crop of auditionees.</p>
<p>Isn’t it wonderful when a program seems to really “get” all the effort and potential of these kids? Not every program for every kid, naturally, but I hope all ccers get at least one auditioned Yes after their hard work and dedication and most of all passion for theater.</p>
<p>Congratulations EmmyBet! I love reading your posts – you seem like such a kind, down-to-earth person, and I am so happy that your daughter is having such great success! You BOTH deserve it!</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, Emmybet! That sounds like a really neat program. Yay!!! How wonderful to know you have at least one great choice and maybe will get more too.</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone.</p>
<p>I, too, hope everyone can get in somewhere by audition, if that is their goal. My D saw this as a huge turning point, an affirmation that she is following the right path. Of course as adults we all know that no doors are ever really shut, but this does give them such a boost. And as has been pointed out, this means where they’ll study for 4 years, how they’ll get started on this path. It’s a big deal.</p>
<p>We’ve had very good feelings about Adelphi all along. I’m not sure why it’s not talked about here as much as some others. In general, it’s academically similar to Point Park, Pace or MMC (the regular admissions standards are definitely lower than the honors college). It’s a full-scale BFA that provides a broad experience both in Acting and in Theatre Arts. There is no MT degree there - that matters a lot to my D, who loves MT but doesn’t want to be somewhere it seems to overshadow Acting (we felt that way at Wagner, for example). There is lots of music and dance, and doing a minor or double major is definitely an option.</p>
<p>She may not end up going there - she has various reaches that could come through. But I do want to talk up Adelphi a bit for younger students who are researching schools. It’s not for everyone, but it certainly has many elements worth looking for in compiling a well-rounded list.</p>
<p>I think one reason it is “off the radar” is that it doesn’t travel to audition and isn’t part of Unifieds. They do go on the Performing Arts School Fair tours, so that is a way to check them out. And they also take DVDs for audition if necessary (which they do strongly consider).</p>
<p>So, so glad to hear this!! It’s a great place to come to after a long, arduous journey! (Maybe not the endpoint, who knows?) And you’ve helped so many others along the way–thank you.</p>
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<p>This is only one of many things in your posts that show what a special fan your D has in you. I am SO excited for you both, and also feel sure that whatever choice your D makes she’ll thrive having respectful support like yours at her side. PLUS she is fortunate to have so many wonderful choices!!</p>
<p>EmmyBet - Congratualtions to your D. It is so nice for her to have choices!</p>
<p>Congratulations Emmybet to your daughter and you. You are a wonderful coach
and great inspiration to all of us. Cheers to you :)</p>
<p>I just had my last audition, at Brooklyn College. It was a very informal audition and interview, we did a campus tour, and we’re home within two hours. They mentioned callbacks in my audition so I may not be completely done with auditions, but close enough! Now the worst part…the waiting.</p>
<p>Congratulations, tainted - I know this is a good and an anxious feeling. But it’s an important point in the process!</p>
<p>Thank you, and congrats on your daughter’s Adelphi acceptance! I live a few minutes away from Adelphi and my brother just graduated from there and loved it. I know people who are in the BFA Acting program and they’ve told me good things about it.</p>
<p>That’s very cool! Thanks for the info. I think Adelphi will stay high on my D’s list once all of the news is in. 7 more schools to hear from … mostly reaches …</p>