<p>This would be my advice with respect to on campus versus unifieds. If you can conveniently or reasonable travel to on campus auditions, I would recommend doing so IF (and this is a big if in my book) you can schedule the on campus audition prior to unifieds.</p>
<p>We could easily have fit Ithaca, Syracuse and BU into my daughter’s unified schedule but chose to do all three of these schools in consecutive weekends in February. She was wait-listed at Syracuse and I can say with almost dead certainty that going in February impacted that decision. She received comments at her audition that would make you think she was a lock to get an offer. But she ended up having her application processed during the 4th wave and I can’t help but wonder if they were receiving a higher yield than anticipated from the first 3 waves and that impacted the decision making by the time it came to the 4th wave. </p>
<p>As to Ithaca, I can’t prove it had an impact but she should have been a good fit for Ithaca. She was accepted at UNCSA and I see a lot of similarities in the schools. But it seems only logically particularly with a schoool that does rolling admissions that the ones who go towards the end can get squeezed out by the numbers. I suspect she ended up being sort of psuedo wait listed as she did not finally receive a notice of rejection until quite a long ways into March. </p>
<p>Finally, as to BU, she also got very favorable audition comments and the school worked diligently with us to collect some additional info to support her academic case to BU so I suspect that decision was more academic related than time related. Still, I wonder the extent to which the lists are largely in place and its difficult to shake them late in process. </p>
<p>The process worked out for her because UNCSA is a better fit for her than BU, Ithaca or Syracuse but, if I had to do it over again, I would have had her do BU, Ithaca and Syracuse at unifieds rather than in February dates.</p>