Sending e-mails/letters thanking the faculty after your audition- Necessary?

VoiceTeacher
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:01:07 +0000

Yes! I agree that you should send them to those schools you are really interested in for sure. If you have not heard either way from a school, it probably means you are still in the running and in that case you should also send a thank you note. Or you could send an email that says something along the lines of “thank you again for the great audition experience, I wanted to let you know that X university is still my top choice and I would love to be a part of the program.” We are all trying to play a numbers game - how many students do we accept in order to get the class size we want? If we have several students on the waitlist that are equal with all other things considered, we are most likely to move up the student we have heard from. Why? Because we would rather accept the student we know is going to come than take a chance that the next student we move-up from the waitlist is not seriously considering us and we could have to wait a month or more and then go back to the waitlist again.

Hope that helps! ~VT