nate

do you have to be academically accepted into Emerson before you can audition?

soozievt

Nate, I just answered your question on the Syracuse thread asking the same thing of that school. I am happy to try to help but you should not rely on a message board for this sort of important, as well as basic information. For all of your schools, you should be reseraching them in depth online and obtaining hardcopy materials and contacting them with further questions of this nature. The questions you are asking are RIGHT on their materials.

AT Emerson, no you do not have to be accepted before you audition. The academic accceptance comes as one package with the BFA acceptance (exception is an EA applicant, after auditioning, can be acceptd to Emerson, but deferred until April for the BFA decision). At Emerson, unlike at Syracuse, you have to send in an APPPLICATION before being allowed to make an audition appointment. At Syracuse, you can make the audition appointment before mailing in your application. Neither school does an academic acceptance prior to auditions, or separately from the overall acceptance package.

MichaelNKat

Soozievt is correct that you must submit your application before you can register to audition. And your application should and the audition registration must be done online. After your application is processed, you will get a snail-mail letter giving you an ID and password to register for the audition.

As to acceptances, my daughter had an experience that was either quirky or perhaps reflective of a nuance in their policy. My daughter had all of her application materials in before the EA cutoff but applied RD. Her audition was scheduled for February. She received an academic acceptance in the middle of December noting that acceptance in the MT program was pending her audition. Perhaps they simply goofed up and thought her application was EA because she got in in so early. In any event, it demonstrated that the academic and artistic acceptance process are clearly separate and distinct. As has been discussed before, you must be accepted both academically and artistically in a bifurcated process. Ultimately my daughter was rejected for the MT program but in the same letter she was offered a position in the journalism program. So if Emerson is a school you strongly want to go to, even if not in MT, it pays to put a second choice on your application.

soozievt

And at Emerson, my D applied EA and had a Dec. audition. In December, she was admitted to the school but deferred for the BFA. In April, she was denied the BFA. So, she could still have attended Emerson but had no interest in doing so as she only chose the school for its BFA program.

Even with MichaelNKat's story, which I agree his D's app likely was handled as an EA app.....you do not have to be accepted to the school to get an audition. To the contrary, the EA applicants all hear of their academic/BFA acceptance as one package deal in Dec. and the RD applicants hear of their academic/BFA package deal in April. However, some students at Emerson, like mine and Michael's D's, were accepted to the college but not for the BFA ultimately.


One thing not that related to this.....is that it strikes me when a school like Emerson will not take any BFA transfer students, even though they lose students in the BFA program (not talking of those who are not promoted in the program but some who choose to leave the BFA....which is something that happens at many programs). When I think of all the kids dying to get into the BFA programs who get turned away, and then all these "slots" that open up because kids change their mind about the BFA once in these programs, it is a shame to think that the slots are never filled again. My D's good friend from home got into the BFA in MT program at Emerson in my D's admissions year and has chosen to not continue with a BFA in MT but is still at Emerson studying related areas. But Emerson won't take transfers. When these slots seem to be at such a premium to those trying to get in, the class sizes dwindle at a lot of these programs after the first year and the slots are never filled again.

nate

Thanks for your concerns! And for your information I have been researching schools and obtaining hardcopy materials since I was a freshman! I know what to look for in a school, and i've researched my butt off about each individual program. For the little things I CANT find on a college website I ask here. So please don't tell me how to research for college.

soozievt

Well, Nate, that is the thanks I get for helping you on the Syracuse and Emerson threads, I suppose. My advice still stands. Come to this site for all sorts of help and that is what it is here for. There are lots of people, inluding myself, very willing to help, as you can see, I hope. It is even free advice. But I was saying that certain types of information are better to get from the source because sometimes that information is so important that you would not want to rely on a message board for being correct. In fact, some of these schools change their policy year to year. In fact, when my D applied to Emerson, it was NOT set up as it is now where you have to send an application in first, if I recall. Things change. So, for stuff like this or for audition requirements and the like, you should obtain that from the direct source. CC is better for getting subjective information and sharing of experiences and such (ie., what is Emerson's audition like?)

You say you have the hardcopy materials. If you do, it is readiy apparent on Emerson's application materials the procedure for lining up an audition. Same with Syracuse. Neither mention being accepted in order to audition.

As well, I still think this kind of question, while OK to ask HERE, should ALSO be asked directly to the college to be certain of something this important. I wasn't saying to not ask here but to make sure you check directly with the school as you could get a wrong answer here or the policies do change year to year. For example, if you asked if BOCO has a dance audition, they didn't in my D's year but they do now. Always check with the source for this type of thing. That is still my advice to ANY applicant, not just you, Nate.

So, I gave you the information for Emerson and I answered your same question on the Syracuse forum. I took the time to help you. Your welcome.

MichaelNKat

Hey Nate, you think you should perhaps be a little more appreciative of the efforts someone takes to share their knowledge with you and a little less snippy? You will get more responses that way to future questions you have. And by the way, the answer to your question is conspicuously available on Emerson's website in the pages on how to schedule an audition.

soozievt

Right on Emerson's website it states:

Thus, you do not get accepted academically in order to audition, but you must submit an application in order to secure an audition appointment.

The procedures for every school usually can be found RIGHT on the website, as well as on the application materials.

Schools change the procedures all the time. While I am not home to check on my D's Emerson folder from 2004-2005, I know it did not work the way it does now at that school. My recollection is that one only had to send in a PART ONE or very preliminary part of the application in order to secure an audition and could send the rest of the application afterwards, but by the deadline. As I have had clients apply to Emerson last year, I recall they had to send in the application in order to secure an application appointment. I do not recall what I just read on the site as far as having to submit a resume online. That MAY be new, I am not entirely positive. I'm not home to check last years' clients' folders.

So, again, you must research directly on the school's website, on the hardcopy application (or download it), or call if unsure, but make sure to get the up to date DIRECT information. Many of us have provided you with the information. But if it were me, I would not want to rely on what people said on a website about such important procedures because as you can see, the procedure at Emerson has changed in the last couple of years.

You may wish to realize that even if you researched your butt off as you say, the information was RIGHT there on Emerson's site and same with Syracuse. However, aren't you lucky that people here have helped to give you the information you seek and to show you where you can find out more. We have been around the block....either having kids who have applied/auditioned, and/or in my case, I advise many students going through this process (for a fee). If you want more help here, for FREE, from those who volunteer our time, we are all happy to help but as a young person asking adults for help, please learn to be appreciative. We helped you with the answers to your questions on various threads, even though the information you were seeking was right on the colleges' websites. What CC is best for is help with stuff that can't be found directly on a college's website. When students come here asking the audition requirements or procedures which all can be found by reading the colleges' sites, they are going to get less patience than students who are asking things that are not easily found by doing their research at the colleges' sites. So, do your research for the basic information and come here for what is not on the sites. And remember, for the very critical information, do not rely on a message board because it could be wrong or not current.

PS...in my earlier post, I had written, "Your welcome," and I meant to write, "You're welcome."

MichaelNKat

When my daughter applied last September, here's how it worked. First you submit the application. Last year Emerson strongly prefered online applications and did not accept the Common App. Once your application is received, it is processed and an ID and password are generated and sent to you by snail-mail. Once the ID and password are received, you then register for the audition. This must be done online. As part of the registration process, you also submit your resume electronically. This does not have to be done at the time you register; you can come back to the site and do it later. (At least that's the way it worked last year.)

nate

O i'm very grateful for people who have helped me! I have all the information I needed to attain about all the other colleges. Emerson is a newer choice for me so I'm sorry I didn't look as hard as you would have liked me to look on their website. And besides It's great to have people help me on here...but I actually have friends who go to some of these colleges and that's where I get alot of my information from!

gjordan

mt auditions last 4 hours....acting last 2. My mt audition last month started t 2 promptly and ended at 6:01

jdganther

My parents would never hitch an airplane flight for a school audition.

Nice dedication.