<p>Hey – Reading your most recent post, I noticed that you mentioned that you are working on your monologues for “auditioning in the spring.” First, let me say that a) it’s better to schedule your auditions sooner than later and b) most of the auditions are in the winter, with National Unifieds in February. But maybe you are using “spring” to mean spring semester. If that’s the case, then ignore what I just said…</p>
<p>Where to start. Well, first I’d start by looking at your list and the list of schools likely to attend Unifieds. You have a few that overlap with Unifieds, so you may want to consider figuring out which, if any, unfied date you plan to attend and get your applications into those schools starting now.</p>
<p>Check out the list that’s been compiled on college confidential of how many people are accepted and how big the classes are. This may give you an idea of what you are up against. </p>
<p>Since you are in Virginia, you should consider going to the VTA One-Act Play festival Halloween weekend in Northern Virginia and maybe auditioning for colleges and attending their college fair. These are “cattle call” auditions that familiarize you with the school and the school with you, but they can be a big help in getting to know schools and what they offer. VTA is attended by Virginia schools, public and private – it might be nice to have a “financial safety” (re-in state) in your pocket among your school choices. That financial safety could also be a theater school…</p>
<p>You cannot consider any BFA audition program a safety. There are many people who audition for BFA programs and don’t get into any. I’m not saying that’s going to be you, but keep in mind, it is a possibility. </p>
<p>So, consider all BFA and BA audition programs your “reaches.” Pull a list together of 12 or so you’re interested in and start researching them as to whether you’d really like to go to school there. Picking a few of the elite schools (your dream schools) and those with larger class sizes may give you a nice spread; add a few BA programs – target schools and safeties --that you are likely to get into with your GPA and SAT. your GPA is great but definitely pay attention to applying to schools where your SAT scores fall into the 25-75 percentile so you won’t have any “reach” BA programs – you don’t need any more reaches than you’ll have with your dream BFA programs. </p>
<p>Since you want to be in an urban or near-city environment, scratch the schools of the list that don’t meet the criteria. </p>
<p>looking at your list, I’m wondering if you are straight theatre or MT?</p>