southernvoice

My D has decided just this week to attend Elon in MT starting in the fall!
She is very excited and has turned down FSU, Tisch/CAP 21, and Illinois Wesleyan (excellent programs) to do this. Elon is just the right fit with excellence of training, individual attention, performance opportunities, professors and the overall college experience she is seeking...the price isn't bad either!

AUDITIONS..my D's crazy audition schedule, like everyone else's, only allowed her to audition at Elon on the last big day...March 11th. She was the next to the last person to audition. She sang one song, presented one monologue and then performed a dance she'd choreographed. She forgot some of her choreography, although we don't think anyone would have really noticed since it was hers. It really upset her.

She had taken her tap shoes into the audition (at my insistence) and after she "thought" she'd blown her lyric/modern dance asked if she could tap for them. They said "sure". She tapped without music for about 1 1/2 minutes. There were a few questions...there were quite a few faculty and a few students in the audition...the students may have just been the guides for the day.

It was a long ride back to GA that night. She did not think she'd done well and had fallen in love with the school, the teachers and the program as we'd waited all day. I've said this before, that she got nervous for the first time ever because she'd forgotten how much she loved Elon and now really wanted to get in.

We also realized how much an early group dance audition has put her at ease at her other auditions. She wasn't afraid to present her own dance for Elon, it just created a different level of comparison (basically NONE) and confidence (all based on those 10 minutes with the faculty). This is something to consider if the audition-day schedules are different at each school...how will it make you feel if you don't know going into the singing/acting audition how you stack up to the others in dance? My D usually had some confidence behind her by the time she went in to sing and act because she's an experienced dancer.


Anyway, the next day was decision day and she got the call (message) by noon. We were floored and she was thrilled.

I too asked about early or late auditions when we were mapping out the audition calendar. The administrative assistant said it really doesn't matter. We were worried that all the spots would have been filled by March, but that was not the case. We feel very good about the timing...now that it's all over! Of course, it’s easy to say that now. But my D was the next to the last person to audition and she got in.

I don't know if this info helps anyone. My D got into the first and last schools she auditioned for (Nov. and March) with two other acceptances and two rejections in between. Who knows about the timing?

Good luck!