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

thumper1
Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:04:32 +0000

fall is a good time to do serious research, and serious visiting, including lessons with the teachers at each of the schools. Then plan very carefully where to send applications and where to audition.>>




I sure hope you mean fall of the JUNIOR year of high school. We did this with DS…all visits occurred before the end of his junior year. He actually had one audition in the summer before his senior year. Senior year is too hectic in the fall for visits. Students who will need to audition should really get a big calendar and mark off all of their obligations ion their senior years (festivals, school concerts, youth orchestra obligations, exams, SATs, etc). Then they need to look at the schools they wish to apply to and pray to the music gods that the audition dates are not the same day (we hit it lucky…not one school was the same audition day as another). BUT with all that…second semester DS missed 15 days of school between three music festivals, a band trip, and his six remaining auditions.