<p>I can’t remember exactly, but I know my S had many many options. We signed up pretty soon after it was posted, but then a few weeks later realized we had to change the date, went back in and still found openings, and changed the date. No problem. We do live close to NYC, so we had a number of audition times to choose from. However, I would respectfully disagree about not taking out time during school to go to the audition. While I do agree it’s preferable to not take time off, I would say if you have to, you have to. That ‘twenty minute audition’ is extremely important; just because it’s 20 minutes long doesn’t mean it doesn’t carry an awful lot of weight, and I feel it should be treated it as such. If that means taking an extra day or two off of school, so be it. I took a day off work to get him there. This is, presumably, their love. And my S had 5 AP/IB courses, so he had a lot of academics to catch up on – but he still went on a Thursday. </p>
<p>Also, remember you can combine other schools and times if you need to take a chunk off rather than a day here and a day there. There were several other schools that offered times on the same time period; my S went to three auditions in one weekend, and met many of the same kids doing the same thing!</p>