Re: the comment that not hearing back and gradually losing hope is practice for real world auditions - that’s true, but with one huge difference. In real world auditions, you’re advised to do the audition and then immediately forget about it and go on with your life. If you hear back, great, but if you don’t, life goes on unchanged . But with college auditions, it’s different. If you don’t get accepted by a college, the next four years of your life are in turmoil and you have to figure out what to do, because you’ve already graduated high school. This isn’t auditioning for a single role, it’s auditioning for the next four years of your life! So I do think it’s much more sttessful not to hear back about college.