on campus audition schedule flexibility

MichaelNKat
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:28:47 +0000

My daughter auditioned during the 2006-2007 cycle so I’m kinda in the same boat as alwaysamom. However, with the increase in applications and auditions that has occurred over the last 5 years, I can’t imagine that scheduling has become any less frenetic. In my daughter’s case, she had all of her auditions scheduled by October 15 and we watched from August for the schedule on each school’s website. Most of her auditions dates were selected in September and if memory serves me right, the scheduling process went to early October because Emerson required her application to be submitted and processed before her audition could be scheduled online. By getting an early jump on it, she was able to both sequence her schools in the order she wanted as well as pick audition dates for each school that facilitated travel and limited her absences from h.s. as much as possible.

Related to this is the importance of getting applications completed from the student’s end and submitted as early as possible. Not only do some schools require the application to be submitted before an audition can be scheduled, but if you get the applications done early, it frees up time for all things audition related.