@vvnstar You tend to give excellent advice. I just don’t happen to agree with this strong statement. I think thank you notes for auditions can be a nice gesture, but I don’t think they are imperative.
Speaking of my own children, they always wrote personal thank you notes for one on one college admissions interviews. They always wrote personal thank you notes to individual faculty who they had arranged to meet with on campus visits or allowed them to sit in on a class. However, my BFA candidate daughter never wrote thank you notes for the auditions themselves and I know many others who haven’t. All have gotten into BFA programs. I think when someone has an individual interview or meeting, it should be done. An audition is similar to an application and I don’t think it is essential to write a thank you but it surely can’t hurt to do so and is something positive. But it is not as if it is a requirement to write thanks for reviewing an application or auditing an audition. I’m not suggesting to NOT write one! I’m just saying I don’t agree that you should not ever NOT send a thank you for an audition. I do think one for a one on one interview or meeting that is not the audition itself is good to do. A thank you for an audition experience is nice, but not required. I just don’t want people to come away thinking it is a must in order to be accepted. My kid and many others have been accepted into audition based programs without thank you notes to the auditors for the audition.