<p>So yesterday was my audition. I would have to say that overall, it was a very good experience. After signing in, my mom and I headed down the street to the dance studio where the dance audition was being held. After warming up a bit, the dance instructor came in and explained what we were about to do. She told us that although the dance audition would not hinder our chances of getting into the program, it would help us. For example, if two girls are at the same level of talent, but one can dance and the other can’t, the girl with the better dance skills may have the upper hand. So we started with some simple dance moves, and eventually progressed into a full scale dance number. We did 3 numbers altogether. Personally, I did feel that it was challenging, although I was able to make it through. Parts that I struggled with were the more ballet inspired moves that required a little more technique. BUT all in all, I feel that I showed them what I could do. I just made sure to have fun with it, so that even if I missed a move, I would still have a smile on my face. I did enjoy the dance audition, and the woman teaching the routine was very sweet. When I was through with that, I got cleaned and changed and went up to a practice room to rehearse some of my material. Around 2:35 I arrived at room 331 where the auditions for the kids with the 3-4 time slots were being held. After waiting a bit, I was called in. I introduced myself to the adjudicators, and then the pianist and showed him my pieces (I was singing “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story and “Fathers and Sons” from Working). Then I introduced my pieces and took my place. From the first note of Somethings Coming, I could not find my pitch. I had gotten off to a rough start. Through out the song I drifted on and off pitch. I tried to stay in character, but my heart was literally dropping because this was supposed to be the number that showed them what I could do, and here I was struggling to find my pitch. Then I began to sing Fathers and Sons once I was done with the uptempo, which is kind of a solemn song. Needless to say, after my first song experience, it wasn’t difficult to get into the mood of my ballad. But believe it or not, I didn’t miss a single note in my ballad, and I really felt that I sang it with alot of passion and character. Then I went into my monologues, both of which were very successful. When I was done, I said “Sorry about that first song… I know it was terribly off pitch.” Then Neil got up and asked me if I could stand behind the piano, and without worrying about the acting, sing the song the way its supposed to be. A glimmer of hope!! He obviously could see that I could sing and wanted to give me another chance. So I did that, and sang the song successfully. Then they asked me to pull up a chair and they did a short interview. They asked me about my piano skills and if I could sightread… both to which I replied were minimal but I was beginning to learn. They seemed to be okay with that. Then I asked them what they enjoyed about the school and why they liked their jobs. And they both said how much they enjoy watching young performers grow, and how it’s great to see young people starting fresh out of high school grow from being inexperienced freshman, to becoming pre-professional actors. And then I shook their hands and thanked them, and walked out. Overall, I feel that my audition was successful. I am certainly thankful that Neil asked me to sing my first song again, as I would have felt awful leaving that room with the song being the way it was. As far as admission, it’s very much up in the air. I don’t know if they are looking for students with better music theory skills… and I also don’t know if my mis-hap with my 1st song left a negative affect on their opinion of my singing skills… even though he did ask me to sing again. All I know is that I am satisfied with my audition. The rest is in Gods hands I guess.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing your experience</p>
<p>MTGeek,
Yes, thank you for your candid description. Not everyone has a stellar audition every time, and I know it will help others who mess up a little see that they are not alone. I have to give credit to the auditors at BOCO who seem empathetic to the difficult time young performers have when put on the spot of singing for something that means so much to them. A shot at learning more about their beloved MT at an esteemed program where they hope to spend 20% of their young lives.
Kudos to you, and I wish you the best of luck during this very difficult process. I personally don’t know how you kids do it, I get so nervous just watching you prepare, never mind perform! Take a deep breath, it’s over and you did it! :)</p>
<p>I wish you the best of luck- as does my “geek” daughter! Thanks for being so candid and describing you experience- please let us know what happens from here on. We’ll be pulling for you!</p>
<p>MTGeek - I met you at the audition!!! I was the girl with the short dark red hair, remember? You were in the hallway when I came out of the audition room. I’m SO SORRY about Something’s Coming, but that’s GREAT that they asked you to sing it again - a really good sign.</p>
<p>I had such a great time there myself. It was my best audition out of all 4 I did this month, for sure. Even the piano player laughed at my comic monologue, which just made my heart leap for joy! That damn monologue took such a long time to become funny when I was rehearsing it last fall, but it finally did, and it really served me well for these auditions. My songs went wonderfully, and my throat only got a little dry this time (when I get nervous, my throat dries up, no matter how much water I’ve been drinking in the past few days.) I was totally connected in my Shakespeare monologue, and I didn’t feel cheesy at all. :)</p>
<p>The dance audition was really challenging for me (backwards somersault, what???) but I made it through and felt like I made a good impression on Ms. Chasse (pronounced like the ballet move, how cute is that?!?)</p>
<p>There’s a few more pertinent details of my BoCo audition, but I’m not going to go into them publicly. For more info, PM me!</p>
<p>Samia…sounds like your auditions have gone positively, yay! You are applying as a transfer student, yes? So, would you enter as a junior to these programs?</p>
<p>No, I would enter as a sophomore, except for NYU, where they would make me start as a freshman.</p>
<p>My audition trip went better than I ever could have expected. I bursting at the seams to tell people about it, but I don’t like the idea of blasting a public forum with every detail of every audition. If you’d like, I can PM you all the good news!</p>
<p>Thank you for explaining the transfer thing. I thought NYU took transfers. Starting over as a freshman is tough and costly. </p>
<p>Sure, PM me. I have to make room as my PM box keeps being full. I much prefer emails so if you can do that, that’s easier for me. Look forward to hearing your stories. It sounds positive!
Susan</p>
<p>Hey Samia! Yeah, I want ALL the dirt! My d told me some of it (she said you were having a great time at the piano bar, lol! She’s a little shy about singing in public, as I’ve told you, except when she’s in a show)</p>
<p>That is really nice of them to give you a second chance. My D chocked at her Emerson audition, which was her first ever audition and still feels badly about that. I wish you the best of luck!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I really felt bad about making her come out to Marie’s Crisis, because as soon as she got there, it started getting really busy, and it was really hard to get the piano player to pay attention to us long enough to play a song we could sing together. When he finally did, three other girls stepped all over her part of the duet we were gonna sing together! I was SO MAD! Those jerks! So I didn’t even get to hear her sing at all. 
I was really glad she came and that I got to meet her though. She is such a sweetie, and so small! As soon as I saw her, I felt the need to call her “sweetheart,” ya know? She so tiny and cute! Teehee! She was really glad I introduced her to that piano bar too, because now she can take all of her MT friends there for a good time. And don’t worry! We only drank Perrier with lime. 
I never ever drink when I’m singing. It’s just bad form.</p>
<p>I hope to stay in touch with your D, I really like her!</p>
<p>hey girl!! what a coincidence!! omg girlfriend, me and my mom thought you were so sassy. we could hear you sing from where we were sitting and WHAT A SET OF PIPES! You are very talented. They’d be insane to turn you away. That dance audition was so much fun though. I love a rigorous dance number to get the blood pumping. I couldnt do ALL of the moves, but I feel I was pretty successful considering my lack of training. As far as Something’s Coming… all I can say is that it was SO unexpected. I usually never have pitch problems. Just one of those things I guess. But I’m hoping the fact that he let me sing it again shows that he thinks I’m worthy enough to listen to twice. I REALLY want to get into this school. I didn’t apply to any other BFA programs. I want to go to this one because its so close to home. Plus I really acted the **** out of my ballad and monologues (especially that INTENSE monologue from THE CRUCIBLE) to show my other assets. I’m also sending cards to Michelle, Fran and Neil just as a little thank you for making the day less frightful, because they were all quite gracious. I dont know…its all out of my hands now. All I can say is that I hope you and I will have the chance to work together next year. Keep smiling sweetie!</p>
<p>Thank you cards are always a great thing to send out - I did that too. Thanks for the compliment! I can’t believe you could hear me from two rooms away! Those walls are like paper!</p>
<p>Best of luck to you, my dear! Please keep me posted on your progress!</p>
<p>You’re too funny. Yeah, she told me about those girls who stepped all over your duet. I’ll bet they were from CAP, lol!! CONGRATS on your BOCO audition; that is so cool that they accepted you “artistically” already! WOO HOO!!!</p>
<p>rossji – </p>
<p>i know a lot of people’s kids on here go to CAP (i actually know a few of them) and probably wouldn’t appreciate the assumption that the girls who “stepped all over” the duet were CAP girls, even if it was a joke. </p>
<p>i just don’t want anyone to take personal offense to a comment like that; i think these boards should stay as constructive as possible.</p>
<p>nyu doesnt take transfers? </p>
<p>thats odd. im not saying your wrong, but I know there’s a poster here, whom ive been talking to a lot, who auditioned as a transfer, and he said he would start as a sophomore. </p>
<p>he could be wrong, but idk.</p>
<p>chris</p>
<p>I’m kinda wondering too about Samia saying she’d have to start as a freshman at Tisch. I know someone who also transferred into Tisch and did not start over as a freshman. I know others trying to do the same this year. Maybe each case is different? These others were/are not even in BFA programs before transferring.</p>
<p>I think the answer here lies with each individual applicant and I don’t think that all transfers to Tisch start as freshmen. There may be a reason why Samia would have been given that as her likely placement if she is admitted (and she exlpain, if she would like). But I decided to research this a bit just now because of the contrast of what Samia was saying and the fact that I know of people transferring into Tisch that did not start over as freshmen. I viewed a message board for Tisch Admissions. I saw this very question regarding if a student applying to transfer to Tisch would have to start over as a freshman or could they be placed in the grade level they would have been in without tranferring. </p>
<p>The reply from the Admission rep was this:</p>
<p>“Should you be offered admission to the university, your acceptance materials would include a statement of transfer credit which will detail for you which of your credits are transferring and where they will be applied to our curriculum. The amount of credits that transfer will determine your class standing.”</p>
<p>So, it seems to be a case by case basis as to which credits transfer and which class standing you are granted upon admission. I don’t know Samia’s case, though she did attend a BFA program previously, so those classes would relate but I don’t know her specifics.</p>
<p>So, let’s take from this that NOT ALL transfers to Tisch begin again as freshmen. Some might and maybe Samia was advised that would be her situation if admitted. But others may be placed in a higher class standing depending which credits transfer.
Susan</p>
<p>From what I’m reading on this thread, it seems like the auditor at my audition gave me the wrong information about that. She is actually a Theatre Studies professor, not related to CAP21. She said she thought CAP21 would require me to start as a freshman, regardless of transfer credits accumulated at my last school. She said to contact Patricia Decker at the admissions office to make sure.</p>
<p>So in light of what I’m hearing on here, I think she was probably wrong that I would have to start as a freshman. She didn’t see my transcripts, so would have no basis to make a recommendation on that for me.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouraging new info! I was starting to rule out NYU as an option because of that, but now I feel better! I will contact Patricia Decker about it if I get an acceptance letter.</p>
<p>You certainly could call and inquire now to get a general idea. The auditor, as you say, did not see your academic application. Did you do an application for transfer students? I would imagine so. I don’t have your specific answer but the quote I posted above is directly from a transfer admissions message board answered by the admissions office. You really could ask this now, even if not particular to your application specific credits but in a general way…</p>
<p>Please, it certainly was meant as a joke! Perhaps you didn’t read all the prior threads. My DAUGHTER goes to CAP! I know lots of girls in Cap - I was just joking that they’re all into singing and being wild and crazy. If anyone from CAP took offense to that, it was really just a joke! And I certainly don’t know anyone from CAP who would be rude. Just a little wild and crazy.</p>