@afterp89 Thank you. The waiting is the worst!
I am jealous of those who can drive to auditions! With one exception my D’s closest school is 14 hours by car. Most are in the 20 hour range. (You’d think she wants to get away from me…). So we are having to fly a fair amount. We booked flights with enough wiggle room to hopefully handle any weather delays (fingers crossed). I am concerned about how the school will handle all the days she will be missing!
Congrats to all on their pre-screen passes!
@FlaMTmom My D submitted her prescreen 9/14; it’s so hard to wait!
@CaliMTdreams Since you’re coming from an area where there won’t be winter weather issues, you may be just fine. Also, if you can fly direct without a connection, you’re more than likely fine too. We happen to live in an area where every flight has to connect through either Chicago or Minneapolis, and it seems like every time we fly, something happens and we end up missing the connection.
Just heard from FSU! D has an audition scheduled for Feb 10th!
@MTVTmom congrats!!!
@speezagmom Thank you. I don’t normally travel in the winter so I started to get all nervous when I read everyone’s comments about flying and driving…lol… @vvnstar Thanks so much for the info. Hopefully we won’t have to deal with any of that…we don’t need another thing to stress about with this whole process. 
@MTVTmom Congrats on FSU! My D just heard from them too and she is scheduled for January 26th!!! Woo hoo
This might be a stupid question. My daughter did her applications and sent in her prescreens.and reached a lot of the early action deadlines. I think she put regular decision down for a lot of the schools because I had read they won’t consider your application for early action if you’re a MT applicant.Once again I’m now seconds guessing myself on my information. If you didn’t mark early action on your application but everything is there for early action deadline will they review your application early? Should we call the schools? TIA
@KAT67 - if Elon runs things this year they way they did last year… stop holding your breath now. My D applied by their early decision deadline but wanted a Spring date… so we didn’t hear about her prescreen result until MID-JANUARY when they released all the Spring audition decisions at once. So we waited that long trying hard to hold onto a weekend to fly there if she passed - and she didn’t. It was annoying, to put it mildly.
@CaMom13 Thank you!!! That’s what I was afraid of…how can some schools give your decisions in two days and others months…It’s not like Elon is easy to get to from the West Coast…LOL…so much for planning!
@KAT67 - the most charitable thought I could manage was that they are a school that historically has been more accustomed to regional applicants and so their “system” is set up to work okay for folks within easy driving distance. Those folks might be able to miss a day of school to show up on campus (all of the audition dates are Fridays). But for those of us on the West Coast it’s two days of missed school and a lost Saturday and an expensive last-minute airline fare (and car rental, two nights hotel bills and…). I hope they change their system because their applicant pool is national and it is unfair to provide so little notice for on-campus auditions in an out-of-the-way location during such a busy time for the BFA applicants. That said, it’s a wonderful school and the only negative thing I know about them is this wacky “release” of prescreen decisions.
@MTdreamz , I’ll be at BW next weekend too with my DS. Are you going to see the production of Cabaret?
@NYKaren no BW isn’t on the list of shows my d wants to see next weekend … she has friends in shows at Wright State, Kent State, and a Toledo community theatre. Not sure how since she is in Muncie and doesn’t have a car. ? I actually offered to pick her up Friday and drive a big loop but she says she can’t miss Improv rehearsal on Friday, and oh yea, her boyfriend’s play opens at Ball State. Seriously.
@frisbee3 - If your daughter applied stating regular decision, they will not look at her for early decision/action even if she submitted before the early decision/action deadlines.
Have lurked on the forum for some time, but this is my first post. Big thanks to all of the contributors to this thread and this forum. I think WE are all crazy going through this process, lol. I say WE because I firmly believe I’ve lost my mind, and my bank account is getting wiped out before college tuition is actually due!! My D is applying to 16 schools and has scheduled 12 in-person auditions. She was turned down by 2 schools from pre-screens and is still waiting on 2 schools that where the applications were submitted later than the others. For what it’s worth, I would definitely have to agree with the sentiment that there is little rhyme or reason for the yes vs no decisions in pre-screening given the schools that said yes vs no.
My question pertains to NY Unified auditions. We have two scheduled (actually one since one of the auditions is NYU Steinhart). I understand that there are opportunities to perform walk-in auditions during the event. Does anyone have an idea of how many schools offer walk-in audition opportunities or how to find out which schools? I’ve read where you must check a list early in the morning and that there is an official site for Unifieds and at least one other site where schools are located. I’m having trouble getting details related to the Unified event. Although I’ve seen where 15-20 applications may be average and with 16 my D fits into this range, but my D may want to take the opportunity to pick up a few more since her schedule for Unifieds is not full by any means.
@frisbee3 Unfortunately, like most answers out here, I think this one is - it depends on the school. From an academic perspective, if they have rolling admissions and give an academic answer separately from the artistic acceptance, you may hear earlier on that portion. We heard academic acceptances from several schools long before the artistic acceptances - or even the audition in many cases. Some schools only provide an academic decision after they’ve decided artistically There seem to be a few schools that do early auditions from which you might get a full answer (academic and artistic) in December (BW was the school we had like this.) Others notify in the spring. If you dig hard on the website and dig through old CC posts, you can usually figure out around when the schools notify for artistic acceptances. (I think I looked at the acceptances by school threads to see when people started adding particular schools to the thread which gave me an idea of when we’d hear something. Yes, I was that crazy. :">
@frisbee3 A few of the schools on my S’s list have early action–but most state it doesn’t apply to musical theatre. A few have early notification if you can get the early audition slot, like Baldwin Wallace. Boco is one that actually has “early action” that applies to musical theatre if you can make the one audition weekend in December.
I don’t know about how the early action applies to admission just to the school? I think he is so “MT or bust” that actual admission to the school is meaningless to him!
Sorry to be missing MARCAS - sending my wife with our D because I have an annual commitment at my own alma mater on Saturday. Told my D she’s in charge of making sure logistics make sense - mom has stayed out of the process. My wife suggested they just drive the 2 1/2 hours Saturday morning, but I insisted they take advantage of grandma’s house being less than an hour away, take less risk with traffic issues, and get a good night’s sleep…
Anyone else headed to Wright State next weekend? Looking forward to seeing their production of Crazy for You while D is there auditioning.
CCM, BW and Penn State have traditionally had early action dates with the possibility of yes, no, deferred to RD.