<p>Kevin3....nope, still waiting on NU and Oberlin as well as financial aid and potential merit stuff....EVERYONE, Please update us!!!! I want to know how all of you are doing, and where we will all end up! Let us know! Good luck to all!
Take care,
Pat :)</p>
<p>To all those who applied and auditioned at Oberlin, didn't they say that admission decisions would be emailed yesterday....everyone said ON March 24th....and obviously nothing will happen on Sunday....do they know how many students they are making go INSANE right now.....AGHHHHH! Hahahaha, Oberlin COnservatory auditioners, let me know if you hear anything.</p>
<p>hahaha patrick I feel the same way... it's making me crazy! But did they say that decisions would be emailed? I was always under the assumption that they would come snail-mail.</p>
<p>But honestly I'm trying to not get my hopes up. ?Que ser?, ser</p>
<p>ooh apparently you can't put accents on letters... or upside down exclamation points so, "Que sera, sera!"</p>
<p>Lol, I know the feeling, but I'm almost afraid to get it. They did say on the 24th, but I was under the impression that it was through snail mail as well, but some people may get emails. So far, the people I know who've gotten emails are ones who were exceptional in their auditions and were congratulated by a professor. Good luck everyone! Fingers crossed!</p>
<p>ugh I got waitlisted at oberlin... AND i had to go to the dentist today haha.</p>
<p>anyone else hear anything?</p>
<p>I'm waiting to hear from USC... fingers crossed for all of us!</p>
<p>ugh, yeah waitlisted as well at Oberlin....kinda surprised me only because I had a fabulous lesson with Salvatore Champagne during the year, he said that he was highly interested in working with me for college, and he even emailed me about my audition and before that if I had sent in my application and when I was planning on auditioning...the audition also went really really well. So I'm surprised, but maybe it is a sign that I'm not meant to be there. Waitlist is always better than outright rejection I guess...so I put myself on the waitlist, we'll see what happens, but as of now, Oberlin is not in the plan...so I'm still waiting to hear from Northwestern...and I've been accepted at a few other schools...so I've narrowed things down from that list and I think I'll be further considering UMich, CCM and Northwestern (IF IT"S A YES!!!) Well, I wish all of us luck, we all need it in these difficult times! Please update me and tell me where you all end up attending! Good luck to all!
Take care,
Pat :)</p>
<p>OMG who DID they accept!? lol</p>
<p>yeah I know....who did they accept? Beats me. Most of the people I've heard from have been waitlisted. Ah well....sigh</p>
<p>Hey everyone!
I in the crazy month of November. Crunching everything I can and will probably be recording my video/cd to send them for prescreening.
I was just wondering, how many colleges is too much?
I cannot ask any of my friends for advice because they're not doing a music major.</p>
<p>I hope some people read this and answer.
It's nice knowing you're not alone when it comes to these things
:)
-MG</p>
<p>It gets tough if you go over four or five live auditions, particularly if a lot of travel is involved. You can apply to more than that via DVD or CD, but then the application fees start adding up.</p>
<p>That's a hard question to answer. Depends on how competent and confident you are in assessing you talent level in a competitive audition based program, how comfortable you are with your selections, whether you have a musical/financial safety you can live with, or only want a "few" very select programs. Audition and travel costs also factor in depending on your situation.</p>
<p>All audition based programs are crap-shoots. People bomb Podunk U yet get admits to Julliard. Bad days, great competition, or any number of factors. </p>
<p>Use your judgement. The range on the board is probably 3 to 8, across instrumental and vocalists. If I had to guess, I'd peg an average of 5 or 6 based on what I recall of last year's activity.</p>
<p>More than that tends to be self defeating in terms of time, school, financial, or just overdoing it for many.</p>
<p>OK, depends on where you are auditioning. If 2 are Julliard and Curtis and the rest are top tier low admit audition programs, 3-4 is not enough. When were talking to other vocalists during auditions, 6-7 seemed about the norm. </p>
<p>DD did 7 which was a stretch but necessary since she had not been able to decide between conservatory and university before she started the process. So some of the audition process was also the college visit. Of the 7 she probably could have eliminated a couple but she had no program that was not audition based so there were a couple of lower tier ones as safeties. She had 8 on her list but eliminated one from audition based on the narrowing of the decision after she got started. 8 would have been really tough. </p>
<p>So how far away are you and how much travel is involved? We always went the day before and only had to fly twice. But it was still a lot of time away from school. She could have done one or 2 by CD but she is much better in person and I think in person is important for your first choice schools. Also it was the only time she visited the campus for one of them.</p>
<p>The problem is knowing in advance how successful the pre-screening process will be; Ideally you would not want to attempt more than 5-6 actual auditions (unless all of them are pretty close to home) since it will be hard to schedule any more than that, but of course pre-screening means you will probably be sending out more than 6 unless you are already pretty sure of at least one or two "safeties"</p>
<p>Six auditions here! That seemed like an optimal number. More would have been stressful; less would have been putting eggs in too competetive a basket.</p>
<p>My d is applying to 8! What a process...The time alone in putting applications together and then the fees has been a little daunting but will see where she is invited back...May be auditions every weekend.</p>
<p>DS is going for 5, one of which is an early review. He has two backup options (1) there are some schools that he might be interested in that he could make a later application to or (2) to just take a gap year and burnish his skills. The gap year backup in particular has taken a lot of stress off of him, on the other hand even doing 4 or 5 auditions (if he is so lucky) is going to be plenty difficult.</p>
<p>D did 5 vocal auditions, all driving distance (some long drives and some lousy weather!). Could have conceivably done one more during the late Jan.-early Mar. time frame. Also, there were a couple schools that had early auds. the first weekend in Dec., but that was All-State weekend here in NY, which she wasn't about to give up. She also applied to and visited a non-audition program with a teacher she liked (and was offered a nice scholarship), just in case.</p>
<p>My D has scheduled 8 auditions she is a soprano which is the most competitive. We live in the NY Metro area so many schools come to us a big plus. We also called 2 schools to arrange dates not listed on their sites. Arizona auditioned her in August when we were out there visiting family. It can be done if you have patience alot depends on your finances and confidence.</p>