Need a "safety" choice -- accomplished with the oboe

nycm
Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:13:58 +0000

well, actually I did mean fall of senior year, but perhaps we were a special case. My daughter did only one music teacher visit in spring of junior year, and the results were not great. Even though this was not an audition, the fact that the teacher was a bit less than encouraging was not good. She needed the summer to hone her skills, so most of the playing visits were squeezed into fall vacation days. Responses then were great.
We were semi lucky on audition schedules, but when there were conflicts, a call to the appropriate person worked well. We found most admissions/ audition scheduling people very friendly and eager to be helpful. Total missed days from Jan to June were about 15, including not only the audition days, but also the visiting campus days for accepted students…so yes, I agree that a big calendar is an absolute must, and concerts, tours, senior recitals, (not to mention senior prom, AP exams, and time to practice the instrument etc.) all make for a pretty busy way to conlude a high school experience. I had had no idea in advance of just how crazy this process would be, so hope all our posts are helpful to this year’s auditonees!