@Lunarlitgend Exactly! 
Also, Good luck everybody! Tomorrow is hopefully the day when they start giving out calls! 
if you get a call, let everyone know here
Hi! Long time lurker on this thread posting for the first time.
My daughter applied in poetry. Her stuff is very experimental and strange. I have no idea how that will play out. I am going to have to hope there is someone on the judging panel who will think āThis is really strange and interesting. I would like to meet the person who wrote this!ā or āThis person is willing to take big risks with her art. She would really benefit from YA week.ā
I have no idea what the YA judging panelās aesthetic is like. I hope they are open to a range of techniques and styles! It would mean the world to my daughter to get the opportunity to study with master teachers. But I know this competition is HIGHLY selective so we will see.
@liliunicorn , thatās so cool that you got feedback!
Best wishes to everyone!
@BookLvr best of luck to your daughter! I think every competition is different and one judge may love your kidās stuff and the next not so much so take it with a grain of salt. Iād forgotten to mention that despite my D being passed over last year on her chosen discipline of jazz voice for YA, she won a Downbeat magazine student music award in jazz voice and tied for āoutstanding performanceā for Downbeat with a jazz vocalist who was named a YA Finalist last year! Different competition, different judges, different result, some audio recordings submitted. Downbeat is probably just as elite (maybe more) for the jazz world as YA so itās all relative and subjective. This is just one competition and does not define anyone whether they win or lose. Just putting your art out there is an enormous accomplishment on itās own!
Hoping for either calls this week or better yet the winnerās list!
Does anybody know if calls in the morning or a night? :)] :-/
Yeah, its crazy how some of these teachers in school districtās donāt notify students about stuff like this, thank god Instagram exists or else i wouldnāt have been finding out about competitions like these. My school is more forwarded to sports and athletics and very few students find art,writing, or music interesting, we even had our art honor society taken away :(( hope sooner or later teachers spread the word to more highschool students so they can achieve bigger things. @glamourbiscuit
I think afternoon and evening when theyāve called in the pastā¦and I agree on the high school arts things. A LOT of the kids who win are from PAHS but certainly not all of them. My Dās HS has no clue about YA and really didnāt even care much. They only care about their own competitions which are classical based and nothing my D was interested in so they were zero help for her. She was on her own.
its a shame really 
, hopefully this may change soon and give creative students a chance :x @SpartanDrew
who Youngarts? I think they give a LOT of creative students a chance. If you look at past winnerās lists many of those kids are from public high schools and even home schooled. I donāt think they earmark the performing arts schoolās kids for stuff but those kids have an edge because thatās what they study all day every day.
no i just meant the students in certain schools who donāt get notified by teachers as much about competitions in certain districts @SpartanDrew
Has anyone been notified yet? Or know when the notifications will begin?
@lrg1122 Iāve been wondering that too! I think we all have haha! Hopefully it starts today and at least one of us gets a lucky call!
I thought i got a call but idk if it was a telemarketer trying to scam me or not because i usually get thoseā¦i missed the call during my class, tried calling back and it wont pick back upā¦Iām shaking and so nervous right now :-S
@Razor123
Was it this number?
ā(305) 377-1149ā¬?
Because thatās the official YoungArts number. If not, then yeah itās probably a telemarketer
yep nvm it was a telemarketer the number was 800-945-0258ā¦whoopsā¦i was so franticā¦im dumb lol XD 
@Lunarlitgend
@Razor123 LOL no itās okay! Thatās an honest mistake especially because of how nerve-racking this is. Iāve read about people in past forums diving for their phones only to be met with a telemarketer, despite knowing the official YoungArts number xD
Iām just praying at this point lolā¦i held my breath for what seems like a good 5 minutesā¦even if this doesnāt really work out ill just rework and try again next year :x @Lunarlitgend
@Razor123 Yeah I agree. Just go into it hoping for the best but expecting the worst. It sounds like such an irony but itās better that way. So if you donāt make it, itās not as disappointing
Im honestly hoping the law of attraction works with this XD! Im just glad i built the guts to do this i usually donāt do competitions cause i get so nervousā¦but anywaysā¦ Im sending you love and joy and i hope that you and other applicants make it in. Good Luck! @Lunarlitgend :x rooting for yāall
I donāt remember which phone number I gave them, my sonās or mine. Is there a way to find out who they are going to call?
@Razor123 You too