<p>Elon has EA for the university academic admission portion and if you audition in the fall you will also find out in early December about the MT decision, either accepted, rejected, or deferred until the end of all auditions in the spring, usually mid-March.</p>
<p>Marymount Manhattan is rolling admission so you find out the academic acceptance soon after you apply though the auditions are not until later. Indiana BA (non audition) is also rolling admissions. We also heard from Pace honors college prior to when the audiiton was scheduled.</p>
<p>We also heard from Pace honors college prior to when the audiiton was scheduled.</p>
<p>Sorry I meant to put that quote in my reply…how do you highlight a quote? So I’ll do this again.</p>
<p>“We also heard from Pace honors college prior to when the audiiton was scheduled.”</p>
<p>ccsmom, could you explain this statement in more detail please? As Pace in a school on our radar.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>We applied to Pace in the fall and my D received an academic acceptance and placement in their honors college. At that point we had not scheduled the audition yet which we had planned to schedule for February, but in mid-December withdrew applications and cancelled auditions due to the NYU acceptance. </p>
<p>(The Pace acceptance I believe came after we withdrew so must have crossed in the mail. We visited the school in November (when we went to NYC for the NYU ED audition) and had a tour of the facilities. They told us if you met a certain academic profile you could be accepted into the honors college which meant you had dibs on certain classes and profs as well as a free laptop and maybe priority on housing choices, can’t recall exactly. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Momathome, my son, too, was accepted into the Honors College at Pace before being accepted into (or even auditioning for) the BFA MT program. All it means is that academic and artistic acceptance are independent of each other. It is not a specific Early Action program, if that’s what you’re asking. While Pace offers EA, it is for academics only. MT and acting auditions are held along with RD students.</p>
<p>Oh right, I remember we were trying to find some EA schools and disappointed to learn that for most of them, if they did offer EA, it did not apply to the theatre program (Emerson being the only exception where we had an EA audition).</p>
<p>Elon will also give an early decision if you apply early and audition in November.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your help</p>
<p>NotMamaRose:</p>
<p>when you say…
- financial considerations (in other words, the ED candidates do not feel they need to compare financial aid offers.)</p>
<p>what does that mean for people who get accepted to NYU ED without financial needs met, and can’t afford to go?</p>
<p>poncem…I am not NotMamaRose but if you or your child’s decision as to where to attend college is partly based on the financial aid offer or “financial needs being met”, the student should NOT apply Early Decision to ANY college!!! When one applies Early Decision, it is a BINDING CONTRACT to ATTEND. Therefore, the student cannot compare financial aid offers with other colleges as they must attend the ED school. If you or your child can only attend the school if the FA offer suffices to your liking and affordability standard, then he/she should not apply ED because ED is not set up to be: “If this works for you, say yes and if this doesn’t, decline the offer” as that is how Regular Decision works. ED does NOT work that way and anybody who needs to weigh the FA offer in terms of whether or not they can attend should NOT NOT NOT apply ED. ED is for those who commit to attend no matter the FA offer. That is how it works. It is binding. If you break that ED contract to attend, colleges can notify other colleges of your breaking of that binding agreement. Further, it can cause trouble for your high school who allowed a student to apply ED who broke the ED agreement and that college may not be apt to accept students from that high school again assuming that such students do not understand or comply with the ED agreements. The student, parent and guidance counselor have signed off on the ED agreement at the time of application that they understand it is a binding agreement to attend. If you cannot make such a commitment, do NOT apply ED!</p>
<p>Those who need to compare financial aid offers from different colleges, must apply RD.</p>
<p>poncem…I noticed you also posed this question on the Visual Arts and Film Majors forum. The answer is not going to change from major to major or from college to college. What I wrote above is how it works at all colleges.</p>
<p>Somebody mentioned that last year the ED dates were all in one week? I was wondering if anyone knew what week it was. My D has to decide on a class trip in November and it would be great if I had an idea, any idea, or what week that historically has been that they audition the ED candidates. Thanks.</p>
<p>It may have changed since my D auditioned ED, which was a long, long time ago 
but way back then, it was the first week of November. It may very likely be different now, and particularly this year, since I believe that I heard that Tisch will, for the first time, have RD auditions in November, too.</p>
<p>This scheduling thing is driving me crazy, waiting until Oct. 1 for dates to go up. Does anyone remember from years past if ED students audition dates were ever on a weekend? My D’s school has very strict rules about absences and I’m just trying to figure out what we can get away with. Thanks.</p>
<p>When my D auditioned ED there were only weekday options. We were in the same boat (strict rules regarding absence), and wound up officially calling in sick, although everyone was well aware my D was missing class for travel/auditions. At least they did not “force” us to present a Dr.'s note. I am not sure if her going to a private HS made a difference. Our take however was that this is what she needed to do. </p>
<p>I understand that there are again some changes this year (last year they provided an accompanist for the first time in years), this year, who knows, may be they include a weekend option. Wouldn’t that be nice?</p>
<p>I actually prefer having a taped audition song. My daughter, who auditioned ED in 2004, has had WAAAAAAAAAY too many auditions where the accompanist couldn’t play the song, or played it too slow/too fast/etc. and ruined her audition.</p>
<p>Like MTgrlsmom, we missed school no matter what, if we had to, in order to attend campus auditions or interviews with our kids. Never got in trouble. If this is unusual at your school that a student auditions to get into college, go in and explain this is what is required to be admitted. I would not care the HS policy. My kids attended a public HS, by the way.</p>
<p>Since so many of NYU’s audition dates are on weekdays, look at the thousands of kids who DO miss school to attend. People do what they have to do to be admitted. You may have to explain this to your HS, if they give you a hard time.</p>
<p>Last year there were only weekday options but, as we were coming from the midwest, we flew in on the Tuesday (11/08) Veteran’s Day holiday when there was no school, did the audition the next day and flew home that evening so only one day of school missed.</p>