<p>Hi, everyone. I’ve been checked out. Have a trial coming up. Life is nuts, with trial prep, and constantly hounding my daughter to do college apps, sign up for auditions… well, you know the drill.</p>
<p>alwaysamom: the “mean” comment about NYU came from kids who told my daughter their experiences at NYU auditions. One was from an actor in the touring group of Spring Awakening. One told her a story of about how she did her audition, and then the auditor said “Okay. One of your monologues was good. One was bad. Tell me which one was which.” The actor didn’t like the comment or the tone in which it was said. In the end, she was accepted to CMU and CCM, but not NYU. She went to CCM (Love it, btw.) My daughter has heard other horror stories about UCLA. One student from her school last year was cut off after barely speaking two lines of her monolgue and that was it. (Frankly, the girl was not that bad.) My daughter takes all this in stride. At her school, so many teaching artists have come through and done master classes with them. She is used to good and bad. </p>
<p>Now the good news: As I have said in the past, my daughter’s SAT’s were not so great. She is a 4.07 and we just found out an AP Scholar with Honors. She has won two National Youth Theatre Awards. But the problem was her SAT. She had a 1730, with a very low math score (490). Today she got her SAT’s back again and she managed to raise them to 1840. That, according to the College Board, puts her somewhere in the 82-85%. And better yet, she got her math score to a 530, which I know is not stellar, but she doesn’t purport to be a star in math. And given her high critical reading and writing scores, and GPA and AP scores, she is now looking much better. I compared her to the CR and Writing scores for CMU and NYU and she is now sitting comfortably in the middle 50% of those universities in those areas. This has taken much stress off of her and now she can really focus on her auditions, her first one being on Nov. 22 at Emerson.</p>
<p>I can’t believe she raised her score 110 points. I’m so proud of her.</p>