<p>@MTRaleighmom - she may not. She is going to Moonifieds and we were told that for kids attending, the digital prescreen is still required, but they won’t find out until after Moonifieds (end of November) as that is considered their “live” prescreen. We’ll see!</p>
<p>Congrats, @tylerjohn !!!</p>
<p>Anyone heard from Indiana U. pre-screens?</p>
<p>My son submitted pre-screens to 4 schools, Michigan, Elon, BW and Indiana. Does anyone have any info on how hard it is to get thru the prescreen process? How many are they expecting to eliminate with prescreens? For example, the lady at IU told us they would take it from roughly 300 down to 100 with pre screens. Curious what those numbers are for other schools. Also, curious what percentage of those are boys. Seems like there are always less boys, so I wonder if they automatically keep boys longer into the process.</p>
<p>@jsr1900 My D submitted for IU on the 9/29 and was offered an audition on 10/8 via email. That is for the 11/8 audition though. On acceptd is states you will hear no later than 2 weeks after each deadline. The deadlines are different depending on the date you request. It states 12/8 as the deadline for the Feb audition dates so it could be mid-December. As for your second post, who knows! It all is so subjective and also based on so many different variables I think it is impossible to predict! I do think odds are much better for boys simply because there aren’t as many boy auditioners as girls.</p>
<p>The 4 prescreens he submitted I would say are among the more selective. Michigan prescreens a student academically as well. They won’t invite you to an audition unless you meet their minimum (which I believe is a 1650 complete SAT and a 3.0 GPA). They are the only school I believe that does that. They are also a bit more selective artistically, and they like people who follow directions. BW is new to prescreens this year, so difficult to predict how difficult to get a pass there. I have seem some declines here already, so maybe they are going to be highly selective. Indiana cutting by 66% if correct, (and I have no reason to believe it is not) is highly selective. Elon doesnt pass everyone either. So while boys probably don’t have to meet the same standards as girls, they arent going to take them just because they are boys either. There are years where schools take more girls than boys, (and vice-versa) depending on the pool. </p>
<p>I think Michigan has one of the most selective prescreens out there simply because it has 2 aspects that they can cut you on, rather then just one. I believe BW is being pretty selective this year as well since I’ve also seen a lot of 'no’s on here.</p>
<p>For BW: I have heard a completely unconfirmed rumor (from a current BW student, to my D, to me) that prescreens are intended to cut somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of applicants. I will be very interested to hear (as time goes by) how this impacts the BW audition experience- will they be doing things differently than the past? Last year, my D felt the song portion was rather rushed, and the dance portion was quite crowded. Both my D and other friends (some who ended up accepted, some who didn’t) felt that movement was difficult in the space while everyone was learning, and so the small group actual “audition” was your 1st real shot at the combo…</p>
<p>BW didn’t have a prescreen last year. I agree with toowonderful it will be interesting to see if the audition dates are less crowded. In our on campus experience last year the male/female split was much closer than I expected. I’d say they were all 60/40.</p>
<p>Haven’t submitted any prescreens or applications yet. Thank God the deadline isn’t until December 1st for most programs but still I’m feeling nervous. (Carnegie, Northwestern, U of Michigan, Ithaca, Marymount, CCM, Emerson, Columbia, Hofstra)</p>
<p>@Sondheimlover (btw - love the name!) not to push… but you want to get on that pretty fast. I imagine audition dates are already filling up, and will be much worse (if not impossible) by December. You don’t want to have to base travels etch on “leftover” times, or worse, get shut out entirely.</p>
<p>Just found out yesterday that D passed her IU prescreen and got her first choice of audition date of February 7th! She submitted at the end of August and has already been academically accepted. Just waiting on Ithaca.</p>
<p>Got an email last night. “Texas State Invites You To Attend… Bobcat Day!” Total tease! These general emails need to come with a preemptive “this-is-not-the-email-you’re-looking-for” warning. Anyone know what the TSU notification timeline is, BTW?</p>
<p>@MTmom2015 - Fair warning, it gets worse after the auditions. Esp for schools where academic and artistic admission are separate, and academic admission is rolling. My D didn’t audition for Pace, but she had friends who did- and I think they were particularly annoying to those who were waiting with lots of contact - that wasn’t giving you the information you really want to hear (Like whether or not you were accepted in the BFA program!) Minnesota Guthrie was the worst for D last year, academic acceptance came literally within a week of application, but BFA was much later, and yet they sent ENDLESS flyers, packets, emails. Fortunately there was a very concrete timeline for when notification would happen, so we knew nothing was “real” until that period. Also- some schools will reject you artistically, and you will still get lots of stuff from the academic side. I had to contact one college admissions office and tell them to stop emailing D after her 1st artistic rejection, (which is painful) and she was still being contact 3-4 times a week by the university as a whole telling her how their school was the “perfect fit for all her dreams”…</p>
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<p>I have to laugh at this comment and it is so true and expect more things like this to happen in this crazy process! Here’s a personal story along this vein from my D’s experience 10 cycles ago (can’t believe I can say that!)…</p>
<p>D applied and auditioned Early Action to Emerson for the reason to have one audition before the holidays and to hear from one school early. One other person from our HS was applying for BFA in MT programs and was a very good friend of my daughter’s. So, on the day the EA decision was to arrive, D’s friend drove home during the lunch break (my D couldn’t do that as she had just turned 16 and didn’t have her license yet) to find her packet in the mail and went back to school and told my daughter that the Emerson decision came and she got in. That made my D anxious and she went to a pay phone and called me and asked me to drive out to our mail box (long driveway) while she was on the phone and to open it while she was on the phone (we had a prior agreement that I would not be opening any college decision mail and that was for her to do). But she could not wait. So, I go out to the mailbox and the mail carrier was just dropping off our mail and I see a really large thick packet from Emerson and I tell the mail driver, “I think my D just got into her first college!” I went back in the house and opened it up while D was on the phone and I started to read the cover letter to the thick fancy package and tell my D she was accepted! Oh joy! Then, I kept reading the letter to only find out that she was accepted to Emerson Early Action but was deferred for the BFA until the Regular Decision round. Well, while it was nice she was academically accepted (though would never go there without the BFA acceptance and it was not a surprise to academically be admissible at that school), it wasn’t what we thought when I opened the acceptance package. In our naivety back then, we didn’t realize that this was a possible decision that could be rendered in EA (accepted to college, deferred to RD for BFA). So, we were excited for like one minute and then I had to tell my daughter she wasn’t yet accepted for the BFA. As it later turned out, she found out that her friend got the same package (but had told D at school she was accepted and maybe she didn’t know the specifics at that time either). In spring, D did not get into the BFA at Emerson, but friend did. Friend only applied to TWO schools (crazy I know) and the other was NYU/Tisch where she was denied, and yet my D was accepted there, which shows the nutty odds in this process too. </p>
<p>So, be on the lookout for crazy excitement in the correspondence that may not be what you think it is when you open the envelope or email!</p>
<p>@MTmom2015 - Same here! It is a recruiting email so the admissions office and the recruitment office must not be in communication. My D has already been academically accepted so it seems we get something from them weekly. We even got a car sticker,in the mail, compliments of the university, as well as post cards telling us what the next steps are (dorm deposit, orientation dates, etc…) Quite the tease! Of course, we know better so our pulse doesn’t budge. Afterall, she has yet to even audition! 
However, once she does, those teaser emails will, I fear, be quite annoying. And just an FYI- though TXST acceptances come by email, final ones come by phone, not mail or email. My D happened to be present when her friend got her acceptance call last year. It was quite an emotional moment!</p>
<p>@SondheimLover - have to agree with @toowonderful, don’t wait too long to submit. When S was a HS junior (currently MT freshman in another program) and toured CCM, we were told that audition slots at Chicago unifieds filled up by early October and on-campus auditions filled up soon after.</p>
<p>@jsr1900 - last year S did not hear back from IU prescreen (accepted) until just before winter break. Take deep breaths. All will go as it is meant to.</p>
<p>Lol, Pace would frequently call on Thursday nights for months. Son was at Jazz Ensemble rehearsal, so we would just let it ring.</p>
<p>Heard from Coastal Carolina today—passed! Signed up for November 15th. Anyone else going that weekend?</p>
<p>We’re not going until Feb, @MTkellbell… But very exciting! Congrats! </p>