Programs heavy on the audition?

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<p>ld - I totally understand your thinking, that a kid with lower academics might do better focusing on schools that stress artistic standards instead.</p>

<p>I’m going to suggest that you consider a couple of things, though, based on the experiences people on this thread have had over the past number of years:</p>

<p>1) There are many schools that stress the audition over academics. Carnegie Mellon is known for this. Others are known for insisting on an academic “bar” - NYU and BU come to mind. People here can give you a lot of suggestions from what they know. But please understand that NO college that uses auditions has a even a moderate acceptance rate. They are all at 20% or less, and most are way less than 10%. Some certificate programs are more lenient and do rely solely on the audition. These may need to be your S’s safeties, if he does not want a BA. However, he will not get the academics you would like him to have. It’s a tricky balance, and, sadly, leaning heavily toward auditioned college programs is probably not quite the solution. </p>

<p>2) You say you’d like your S to get a well-rounded education. I’m guessing that means you’d like him to go to a school with general education classes, rather than just a conservatory. I think it is important, whether in an auditioned degree or not, that his academic ability matches the general academic standards of the school, if he’s going to be taking academic classes there. So even if he passes the audition test, he should still be at least in the middle 50% of applicants academically, even if they say they don’t care about that. You don’t want him to be miserable in his gen ed classes, or worse, flunk out.</p>

<p>He has perfectly nice academic stats for lots and lots of schools, and if he works hard on his monologues, he should have good audition results. There is a thread here on non-audition BFAs, too, which might help him find a safety school that he really likes. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/1177128-non-audiiton-bfas.html?highlight=non+audition+bfa[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/1177128-non-audiiton-bfas.html?highlight=non+audition+bfa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Good luck!!</p>