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While my daughter is not a student at Point Park, her experience as a freshman at another MT BFA program is relevent to this discusion simply because it reflects that there is a common denominator in the audition process once a student hits the level of a BFA program. Her school just finished auditions among all students for the spring shows. While casting has not been announced yet, some freshmen received as many as 6 call backs, some 1 and some none. Obviously, the likelihood of being cast is proportionate to the number of call backs (although even 6 call backs is not an assurance of being cast in anything). Fairness has nothing to do with the process, a good audition that shows the student is a good fit for the role is what is determinitive. I have no idea if my daughter will receive a role. If she does not, I would encourage her to get feed back from the casting directors as a learning experience but not to expect that roles will be handed out in an "equitable" manner. The former is what I would expect of educators in this field, not the latter. While as a "consumer" of "higher education" one might understandably equate the opportunity to perform as getting your "money's worth" for your tuition dollar, there also has to be a realistic understanding that a BFA program is a "profesional training" program and as such is going to mirror what happens in the real world in many ways. If you are not getting the opportunities you desire, then things need to be reevaluated more comprehensively than simply looking at the "fairness" or "equities" of the process.
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