<p>It may make a difference at schools where a competitive academic component is as important as the audition: Re NYU or BU. It certainly makes a difference for BA programs at LACs etc</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the help on LORs. Whether anyone at the colleges reads them or not, S will still have to get them, so everyone’s explanations of the mechanics of the process are MUCH appreciated!</p>
<p>So I contacted our counselor and our school has no system in place at all really. D has to secure letters directly herself. How does that work with the common app? @toowonderful?</p>
<p>@evilqueen our school didn’t have a system either. The common app LOR’s are pretty simple. You ask the teachers, get their preferred email address, then enter the email on the common app. They are then sent a request from the common app and do everything online. Also if you ask several teachers you can decide which school gets which teachers LOR. We asked a few that way if they didn’t respond in a timely manner we had a back up.</p>
<p>@broadway95 Thank you so much! So you get to see if they have posted through the common app? Sorry for all the questions but my S only applied to 3 schools and we didn’t use it at all. </p>
<p>@evilqueen - info from Broadway95 is correct- but the email they give needs to be from a school email address. It’s easier through the school (only one code - but not the end of the world. If that is what your school does, teachers should be used to it. They cannot upload until your D’s common app is live in fall, but often have more time over summer- especially if you ask about writing now, and send them an email reminder in August</p>
<p>Yes. In fact one of the teachers was having trouble with her school email and since it was her choir teacher and not one of her core class teachers I switched it to another teacher that had uploaded her LOR</p>
<p>We plan on mailing the LORs, instead. For those who did this, as well, will we indicate on the common ap that this is what we’re doing, or will D just send them in and make follow-up calls to make sure they were received? (D already has her academic LORs from college professors. They already printed out and signed many copies, and I hate to have D ask them to get online and do more. It seems like a bit much. Maybe I’m wrong… I don’t quite see the point of not mailing what we have.)</p>
<p>Most will accept mailed LORs. However, there were a couple of schools on our list that wouldn’t accept mailed LORs.</p>
<p>Looking at the Marymount website, they don’t appear to attend Unifieds. Is this correct? Last year they had one date in Chicago but it did not coincide with Unifieds.</p>
<p>Marymount’s audition in NYC did not coincide with NYC Unifieds this year which was a deciding factor in not keeping them on the list.</p>
<p>Marymount does regional auditions. They require a pre-screen for the regional auditions but do not for the auditions on campus. My daughter sent in a pre-screen, passed it, and was scheduled to audition in San Francisco. The day before the audition, they were unable to leave NYC because all flights were cancelled due to a storm. They used the pre-screens for all the candidates from that audition. My daughter ended up waitlisted.</p>
<p>I looked at their dates (still from last year, I think…) and I don’t know if they will work for us, regional or in NYC. I can see that we may end up with video only for them. They will do it if you can’t get there.</p>