@vvnstar - your final posting on the locked thread is excellent advice and a good summary of important points. @dusing2 thank you for opening a new, very important thread. I advise all who find this thread to go back to the first post and follow the link to the years of responses on the first coaching thread.
Regarding MTCA and coaching; my daughter used them 4 years ago and is now graduating from NYU. Being from Oregon we had no idea of how this process worked and would have never mastered it without MTCA advice, support and training. I am very sorry for @BabyBettesmom and her daughter, but I would like to correct her doubts about the honesty and validity of MTCA student success reports. If you go to their website, you will see real pictures and posted schools of where MTCA coached students have attended. You can also access a list of alumni. During her first year at NYU, my daughter was hired by MTCA to help out with computer and office work for that year, and she will always stand by the professionalism and dedication of the agency and its coaches.
MTCA and all other coaches make no guarantees of student placement in programs. Anyone perusing this forum will become well aware of what can appear as the serendipity of acceptance to college MT BFA programs. All coaches will strongly recommend adding nonaudition BFA or BA programs to a student’s college wishlist.
We all need to remember that it is against the policies of College Confidential to use this site for bad mouthing or criticizing other members, their input or objects under discussion. It is meant as a place of support, and we certainly have received lots of it, to this day!
@sopranomtmom, my D began working with MTCA fall of her junior year for 2 reasons: to develop her mix/belt voice (with Skype coaching), as we had no regional voice teachers that could do that and to help prepare her for video admissions to university summer programs for summer after junior year. If neither of those had been an issue, I would probably have begun her winter of her junior year so there would be time to get everything in place before the summer. You also need to be aware that many coaches have a certain number of places available that can fill up before senior year, so it is wise to inquire about that. Please feel free to pm me if you have any questions.