| Well said, Melsmom
I feel I can be pretty objective about this as PSU was not on my daughters list of schools. D also has a lot of auditioning experience, professional and amateur and is quite familiar with "sometime you get the job and sometime you don't" and has NEVER been upset over not getting a callback or a professional gig. However, she would be EXTREMELY upset to virtually be told in front of a roomful of her peers that "she just didn't make the grade". College auditions ARE NOT professional auditions, and the auditors should be sensitive to that fact. And my kid has professional experience; I can only wonder what a deleterious effect that public humiliation has on the vast majority of the kids who audition only having done their HS shows!
Yikes, I'm aghast!! |