<p>One thing I’m still confused about:</p>
<p>Do you have to get into the school before you can audition? AKA, do you need to be invited to audition for a school or can you just schedule an audition after you apply?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>(I am applying for BFA acting programs at the following schools: Emerson, SUNY Purchase, CalArts, Coastal Carolina, Pace U, Depaul, Salem State, Point Park, Montclair, and Ithaca)</p>
<p>The most common scenario for schools like the ones you list is that first you submit your application and then you are invited to schedule an audition. You certainly don’t have to be accepted to schedule an audition.</p>
<p>At some schools it is possible to schedule an audition before applying. Read the requirements of each school very carefully on their website.</p>
<p>Yes, read all of the websites!! Some schools suggest that you sign up for auditions right away, because they fill up, and then do your application.</p>
<p>Also, there is a chance you can audition at Unifieds or on campus, and based on those results, submit your applications afterwards. This is an option if you are overwhelmed with applications early in the process, and a few schools are “back-ups” for you.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Okay thanks so much! Do you recommend unifeds? Do you reccomend auditioning before applying? (Meaning, if your grades aren’t the BEST…possibly your audition could make up for it before they SEE your grades?)</p>
<p>Have you already applied/auditioned anywhere?</p>
<p>Thank you both!!</p>
<p>clemme - You can audition at Coastal Carolina before you apply. But I believe you have to be accepted to the university before you can be offered a spot in the program. Here’s a link to the audition information for 2010-2011.<br>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/coastal-carolina-university/1003477-2010-2011-auditions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/coastal-carolina-university/1003477-2010-2011-auditions.html</a></p>
<p>Best of luck with your college search and break a leg at your auditions!</p>
<p>clemme – each school will be different… ex. where I teach students can schedule an audition before they apply but must have submitted the application before the can audition. Other schools may allow you to audition before you apply. Some schools may even require an academic acceptance before you can audition. If you check with each school directly you will be sure to follow the process the each school requires. :)</p>
<p>What if you audition before you apply for the school and you pass the audition. The department founds out a little later that you didn’t get into the school. What do they do with their acceptance? Do they still send it out?</p>
<p>That will also vary from school to school. I do believe that some programs will offer a “provisional” acceptance to the program, so you would know that you were into the program IF you were to be admitted to the school. </p>
<p>Where I teach that is not the case… if you are not accepted academically to the university you will never know whether or not you might have been accepted to the program.</p>
<p>At some other schools you will not be admitted to the university UNLESS you are also admitted to the program. In this case you will never know if you could have been admitted to the university in another major.</p>
<p>You will have to ask each school directly of their policy. :)</p>
<p>This is one of the things that makes the process of applying to theater schools so wild. Each school is different and has its own little quirks in the process. Very different from applying for straight academic programs. We have found it helpful to make a spreadsheet to try and keep it straight.</p>
<p>To follow up on posts 7.8, and 9, it can also work the other way around where you may hear academically before you hear about the program admission. Emerson is an example of a school where this could happen since the admissions process is bifurcated. The admissions department decides the academic admission and the theatre department decides the program admission and each provides notice. You can be admitted academically before you even audition. If you are accepted to the program after you audition, then you know you are in. If you are rejected from the program but have an academic admission in hand, you may be offered an admission to a different program if you indicated a second choice on your application.</p>
<p>The “double-sided” nature of theatre acceptances is confusing and sometimes annoying. My D received a big envelope from her top school of choice. She opened it, read the “congratulations!” letter, frowned and threw it on the table. She tells me “It’s only an academic acceptance” and walks away. I picked up the packet - leafed through a few pages and found her acceptance letter from the Musical Theatre program buried about four pages down. I wonder how many kids did the same as her and didn’t read the whole packet? If I had taken her word for it - she wouldn’t be attending her “dream school” and loving it.</p>
<p>I should clarify regarding my post #8… JMU, where I teach has a bifurcated process, like Emerson’s. If students are accepted into the university they will receive one letter from admissions and another from us in the Theatre & Dance Program letter them know whether or not thay have been accepted into the program as well. If not accepted to the program they can still attend JMU in another major. </p>
<p>A student not accepted academically will ONLY receive a letter from university admissions.</p>
<p>It is all confusing for families because each school has developed a system that works best with in the admissions structure at the university or college. Each school is slightly different. The spreadsheet is a terrific idea for a way to keep it all straight!</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>…and my little brother said “ygbsm” when I told him we had spreadsheets…I told him, we ALL have spreadsheets. He went into the ag program at the state school closest to home…this world is something he wouldn’t imagine in his wildest dreams!</p>
<p>I think keeping track of all the infinite variances from school to school is the hardest part aside from the actual having and preparing their talent part of it.</p>