<p>Alwaysamom,
Well, I wasn’t in the room, but D definitely thinks it was the song.<br>
I just heard her explaining the problems to a friend: she didn’t hear any treble clef notes, wasn’t sure when to come in, and couldn’t find her pitch to come in on.
The song is “Meadowlark”, from The Baker’s Wife, by Stephen Schwartz, and the accompaniment is all eighth notes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good wishes!</p>
<p>I am so sorry to hear that too. </p>
<p>I do know the pianist they hired and he is one of the best accompanists in Dallas. I hope she isn’t too down about it. As you say, strike it up to a good learning experience.</p>
<p>It is always tricky with an accompanist you don’t know and doesn’t know you. I had one student with a bit of a musical snag but she seemed to recover fairly quickly.</p>
<p>I feel a bit guilty touting my students after your D had a tough audition. I will post more tomorrow but just say briefly that it was a good day for my students. Call backs ranged from 6 -16 per student. All got firm offers, some with scholarships. I will post more tomorrow after I have had a chance to write it all down in an orderly fashion.</p>
<p>The auditions were well run and well organized. A pleasure.</p>
<p>I missed seeing Dr. John but enjoyed meeting Deb Byrne, his sub from Otterbein. She’s GREAT, John. Look forward to seeing her again in Chicago at UNIFIEDS</p>
<p>Always good to see Peter Sargeant from Webster and Tommy from SMU,
the girls from Cincinnati, the fellow from CW Post (love him), the group from Boston Conservatory and Marymount Manhattan
and that OU group… Good Lord, there were 7 of them including the head of theatre and the head of musical theatre! They really go all out. I love that! Oh, and College of Santa Fe, wonderful!</p>
<p>Now it’s time for nighty night,
xxx,Mary Anna</p>
<p>MaryAnna, congratulations to your students on their successes at these auditions. When you’ve had a chance to digest and organize the information, I think it might be interesting for the rest of us to know a bit more about the schools which offer these firm offers and financial aid ‘on the spot’, so to speak. Are these offers made to kids who have already submitted applications? Are they schools which are rolling admissions and are also having auditions for other students? Look forward to hearing your comments.</p>
<p>Also, thank you for clearing it up that you do not have a child in the audition/admissions process this year. I wondered because I thought I remembered you previously mentioning that you were going to the Unifieds in Chicago, and now you’ve mentioned it again. It’s unusual that a coach/teacher would do that!</p>
<p>Mary Anna,
Yay for your students! I can’t wait to hear about their results.</p>
<p>D was disappointed about having made a bad decision, not vocally, thank goodness. She feels great about the songs she’s using this weekend - and has sung them with 3 different accompanists. It seems she has shifted her nervousness to staying overnight in the dorm, wondering how much sleep she’ll be getting, etc. </p>
<p>Off to pack! Hope everyone auditioning this weekend walks out feeling they have shown the auditors the best they have!</p>
<p>I also am curious how these admissions offers work from this audition event in Texas as I have not heard of this before because I don’t think such an event exists in the Northeast. Like AlwaysAMom, I am wondering if offers of admissions and scholarships were offered with NO application yet filed? If that is the case, it makes me wonder, at least for these schools, just how important the application, grades, scores, recommendations, transcripts are in the process. I make my clients work hard to present good applications and I’m now wondering if kids get in without applications and all that jazz. Even if kids fill out a form at these auditions, wouldn’t the offer of acceptance have to be provisionary or contingent upon official score reports, transcripts, etc? I would love to learn more of how that works. These are offers of admission with scholarship, correct? They are not offers to come audition at the college, or some screening then, right? If all this is the case, why bother writing essays and getting recommendations and so forth if these are not weighed in the admissions decision? It is all very interesting as I have not heard of this before. </p>
<p>Mary Anna, I also was assuming you are the parent of a daughter applying/auditioning this year. Not sure why I thought that but maybe it is because I made an assumption when you said you were going to auditions out of state and it never occured to me that a teacher would do that and so somewhere along the line, I always thought of you as a mom in the process. It is unusual for a teacher to travel to auditions so far away! You are a dedicated teacher! What grade is your child in? If not a senior, you have all this college admissions stuff to look forward to!</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Yes, I understand.</p>
<p>All I can tell you is that the schools who attend and make offers(and not all do)must be schools who can do so on artistic merit separate and appart from academic admissions. Only one of my students actually had a completed app on file at one of the colleges in attendance. </p>
<p>Some colleges do call back students and express a very strong interest and request a student to come to audition again either on campus or at UNIFIEDS where more faculty can evaluate them. Other schools have reps in attendance who are the heads of the acting/mt departments and have the power to decide who they want to accept right then and there. Scholarship offers are often academic and based on the GPA and SAT/ACT scores which are on the students’ audition forms.</p>
<p>For more info on which schools have rolling admission, scholarships and specific admission requirements, I suggest you and anyone else contact the colleges directly. The complete list is the first post of this thread. (USC didn’t come, Cincinnatti Dept. of Drama only was there, and CMU was there for tech only). </p>
<p>I will post names of colleges who offered acceptances and whether they were MT or straight theatre when I have the list complete. You can imagine with 7 differents students and some having as many as 16 call-backs, my head is swimming. I am awfully proud of them</p>
<p>xxxx,Mary Anna</p>
<p>P.S.I have personally been through the college process with my older daughter, who is a currently a junior. I appreciate all your knowledge on the process. It can be stressful for kids and parents.
I am going to Chicago with NOCCA mom to help chaperone the 4-5 students I have going to UNIFIEDS. I am looking forward to seeing the UNIFIEDS first hand.</p>
<p>I also want to ad that these same college and others come today to Booker T. Washington HS for the Performing Arts to their Senior Showcase and offer the same offers as the NET Auditions. So last year my D was seen at both the NET Auditions, then the very next day at her High School.</p>
<p>I mentioned this before but the Southeast Theatre Conference along with the various state conferences hold college auditions in a manner similar to what Mary Anna outlined for the NET. Often the various colleges extend offers of admission and scholarship offers PENDING academic acceptance. We know several students firsthand who got artistic admission and scholarship offers on the spot. They then had to submit their application and wait for the academic acceptance. </p>
<p>Susan, there is a New England Theatre Conference that was (I think) held in the Boston area last year. I don’t know where it is this year. I just assumed that it operated like the SETC with the various states participating in the festival. I know that they have individual competiations and had just assumed that they held college auditions as well. Perhaps someone with firsthand experience on the NETC could post on it.</p>
<p>CaroMom, yes, it is all interesting to learn about. I would have assumed without an application filed or official transcripts or SATs, that the acceptances would be like you are saying, artistic acceptances that are provisional and pending on academic acceptance. Otherwise, what is the point of the application process? Then again, perhaps for some schools, the academic bar is not that high and not a big facet of the admissions process. Still, I see kids all the time quote me their GPA or class rank and then I get a copy of their transcript and well, let’s say it does not look as good as the kid led me to believe ;-). Also colleges say they want official score reports. What about the recommendations? I am wondering if they accept you without all that, then why are we all bothering to do all that work on the applications (essays, etc.), lol? </p>
<p>I also was not aware of this NETC. I live in a rural area in northern Vermont. We do not have these types of events that I read about on this forum which has been an education for me. We don’t have these big state thespian things with all these awards and competitions such as my D’s friends in FL or TX may have (kinda like Tony Awards). We don’t have these performing arts college fairs (we don’t even have PA high schools), we don’t have theater conferences where colleges come to audition or recruit. For that matter, we don’t even have drama classes at school or any youth theater productions in the area (though do have school shows). Learning of all these things going on elsewhere is very informative. I’m thankful my kid was able to get into BFA programs when I see what else is available elsewhere. Also, she notices that about a third of her class went to the summer pre college program at her college, which again, my D had never done. But if there is one thing to share for others to know…a kid can come from the middle of nowhere and where none of this stuff exists and still get into BFA programs. Not only did my rural kid, so did several theater friends of hers in our region who did none of these things either. </p>
<p>However, it is great to read about all this stuff going on elsewhere and I know when my D would learn from friends out of state all that they had in their area, and state wide events and performing arts high schools and drama departments at school and thespian competitions, awards and the whole shebang, she sure thought it sounded GREAT. But it is all quite foreign from our experience here in the boonies.</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>OK…I’m going to admit how dopey I am…after reading CC for almost two years, it never occurred to me that PA high schools were Performing Arts and NOT located in Pennsylvania. (Hits her hand to her head and realizes how dumb she is!!!)</p>
<p>Lynn…you are so funny. After years on CC, I finally caught onto some lingo myself. </p>
<p>The thing about “PA” is that there is a song in Fame that uses that term for for Performing Arts HS and so I knew that one from there. But I have learned a TON of stuff over the years by reading CC (and oh, let’s not confuse THAT CC for community college, lol). There are all sorts of acronyms, whew. And then there is that whole internet language the kids use, u no?
cya…
Susan</p>
<p>All these are results contingent upon the receipt of a completed application. </p>
<p>Cincinatti Dept. of Drama offered places in their freshmen class to one male and one female for acting</p>
<p>Marymount Manhattan accepted one female for acting</p>
<p>BoCo made offers to one female for MT and another female pending the mailing of supplemental materials</p>
<p>Webster offered one male for theatre and one female for MT</p>
<p>Santa Fe accepted two females for MT</p>
<p>C.W. Post/Long Island University accepted one male and 2 females for theatre</p>
<p>OU accepted two females for theatre (one had a completed app)</p>
<p>Otterbein called back 5 of my students and enthusiastically encouraged them to audition in Chicago so Dr. John and his faculty heads could see the scope of their talent.</p>
<p>There were so many other call backs, it seems silly to list all of them here. And likely more firm offers. Problem is, many schools we frankly didn’t have time to even go to the call back. Call backs are only scheduled for a 2 hour period and when you have a large number of schools calling you back and they take a long time with you, it’s hard to have time to make it to every school.
I prioritize my students’ call back list to try to avoid this problem but even though, I still had a student who never made his call back from Evansville and we don’t know if it was a firm offer or an invitation for an on campus audition. That makes me sick to have missed that. Evansville would be a great match for this kid. I will have to follow up and find out.</p>
<p>Based on their GPA/ SAT/ACT scores, students were told with certainty of the academic scholarship awards that would be available to them should they decide to attend that particular school.</p>
<p>Talent scholarships were discussed and offered verbally from some schools’ department heads and reps, the exact amount of which were not confirmed but a range was discussed.</p>
<p>Department heads who were present assured students of their acceptance based on what they had seen that day and offered personal support during the admission process, should any problems arise.</p>
<p>That’s as specific as my students/parents are willing to let me go at this point. I hope that answers some questions posted here. For more info, contact the colleges directly.</p>
<p>xxxx,Mary Anna</p>
<p>Mary Anna,
Can you clarify your post number 32? Were the numbers of acceptances you listed for your students, or were they the total number of students the schools present at NET accepted?</p>
<p>Oh my no. Those were just the results of my seven students. </p>
<p>I have no idea about the other students who were there and how they did.
There were 200 who auditioned. </p>
<p>Each school posted their call backs on a public board. It looked like some schools called back as few as 5 or 6 out of the 200 and others called back 30 or so. Of course, that is just an estimated guess from looking at the call back board.</p>
<p>Written offers are beginning to arrive to my students via email and snail mail from those schools who called them back.</p>
<p>Just thought I would share some of the the stats included in the letters:</p>
<p>from Cincinnati Department of Drama letter. They take 18-20 out of approximately 600 audtionees.</p>
<p>OU School of Drama Recruitment team auditions over 1000 for about 30 places for the acting track.</p>
<p>SMU audition about 850 takes about 12 for acting and another 12 or so for theatre studies.</p>
<p>I will post more info as I get it from the other offers.</p>
<p>xxxx,Mary Anna</p>