<p>5boys haha no worries. There are a lot of great theatre schools around us here so we started this journey thinking lets take advantage of that. We didn’t look at any west coast schools. The farthest we go is Chicago.
The other thing we have done is to lighten her course load for next year. She’s a great student but doesn’t need more AP Calc or more science to get into drama school. So she has early release for half of the year and we are hoping that lands in the time when we are traveling!! Having a lighter course load will make it easier to miss class too. I think she is going to miss 6 or 7 days.
Merlehay - you can kind of figure out what your schedule will look like next year by looking at when schools had oncampus auditions dates this year. I just jotted them all down on a calendar. There is something of a pattern. I think the schools work with each other to not have auditions at the same time. Syracuse and Ithaca for example are the same weekend but one is Friday and the other Saturday. So you can travel there for both in one weekend. Uarts is one saturday in december and suny purchase is the next saturday. Of course things will be slightly different next year but doing this helped me see what our schedule might have looked like and could it all even fit in.
Someone might already have mentioned this but don’t forget some schools require you to schedule a four hour block at Unifieds because they have a multiple step process. So it’s not just a 15 minute thing. You can’t have any other auditions scheduled during that block. So that cuts down on your time at Unifieds.
I will be feeling much better about all this come October when I have everything scheduled and on my wall planner!! And we will be getting an early flu shot, buying lots of hand sanitizer and gargling with salt water from October to February!!</p>