Thanks everyone. Very helpful information. After all of that, we keep getting emails from NEC and it’s niggling us in the back of our head that we should maybe consider an application there. I know their jazz program is stellar and D absolutely loves Boston. I wish we had visited when we were there in April for a tour of Berklee but D wanted to see the city so we didn’t do the NEC visit. I emailed D’s vocal coach about it and she responded with a resounding YES she should apply since she knows the vocal jazz faculty well and thinks they would be a great fit for her. So she may be working on one more prescreen. Ugh! It seems that none of these schools want the same thing for prescreens. I’m hoping it won’t be too much of a big deal to get those ready and fortunately she has until December 1 to record and submit it.
Looking at the auditions dates for her, the only other issue is getting everywhere. If she is invited everywhere to audition (which we certainly hope) then we will spend 2 weeks flying around the east coast. Yikes for my wallet, vacation time and her missing school. It seems extremely daunting. I know many of you have already been there but this is a bit overwhelming at the moment. I’m sure it will all work itself out.
I hope all of the kids and parents that are 2018 grads will post on this thread as they submit applications and also hear back on prescreen invitations! Good luck to everyone!