I'm currently a rising sophomore, and although I know that I have nearly a year until I REALLY need to figure out the college search, pre screens, and auditions, I'm trying to get an idea of where I need to be both academically and artistically to have solid applications and auditions that will (hopefully!) get me into a couple of schools. Freshman year, I had an unweighted GPA of 3.9(i think!) and a weighted GPA of 4.33. I took all honors classes freshman year and plan on taking AP Bio, AP Environmental, APUSH, AP Lit, AP Comp, and AP Music Theory at some point in the next three years of high school. I take honors choir and orchestra at school, and I am also involved in my school's theater program. My extracurriculars are voice, cello, piano (I've been playing since I was 5 and playing competitively since I was 12), dance, musical theater, and volunteering at a local children's theater.
I have been taking private voice lessons since I was 8 years old and I have been training classically for about 3 1/2 years. I'd consider my voice type mainly as a legit mezzo soprano but I also do a lot of mezzo mixed voice. (I'm slowly working on more of a belt, but baby steps at the moment)
I've been taking dance for only a few years (2 years jazz and tap, 1 year ballet and contemporary) and I am planning on continuing my training for the next few years before college. I'll also be taking dance classes during school as my gym requirement for the next three years.
I don't have a lot of acting training - I don't have an acting coach, but I just finished a week workshop in New York where I worked on monologues. (Is it worth investing in an acting coach?)
My current "experience" is high school shows, 2 years of community theater, a year at a youth theatre troupe at Centenary University, and youth theatre programs in New York City. I've definitely had more "ensemble-isn" experience (Cha Cha Digregorio in Grease type stuff), but I have had a few lead experiences. I've also done summer programs at Ithaca College and Broadway Workshop this summer, and I plan on applying for Artsbridge MT 2, CMU pre-college, and Northwestern's Theatre intensive for the next few summers.
Here are some schools I'm thinking about applying to:
NYU
CMU
CCM
Baldwin-Wallace
Wagner
Ithaca
Michigan
AMDA
UCLA
Fordham
JMU
Syracuse
Penn State
Rider
Viterbo
What are my chances of getting into these schools? Also, any recommendations for schools to look into applying to?
I have been taking private voice lessons since I was 8 years old and I have been training classically for about 3 1/2 years. I'd consider my voice type mainly as a legit mezzo soprano but I also do a lot of mezzo mixed voice. (I'm slowly working on more of a belt, but baby steps at the moment)
I've been taking dance for only a few years (2 years jazz and tap, 1 year ballet and contemporary) and I am planning on continuing my training for the next few years before college. I'll also be taking dance classes during school as my gym requirement for the next three years.
I don't have a lot of acting training - I don't have an acting coach, but I just finished a week workshop in New York where I worked on monologues. (Is it worth investing in an acting coach?)
My current "experience" is high school shows, 2 years of community theater, a year at a youth theatre troupe at Centenary University, and youth theatre programs in New York City. I've definitely had more "ensemble-isn" experience (Cha Cha Digregorio in Grease type stuff), but I have had a few lead experiences. I've also done summer programs at Ithaca College and Broadway Workshop this summer, and I plan on applying for Artsbridge MT 2, CMU pre-college, and Northwestern's Theatre intensive for the next few summers.
Here are some schools I'm thinking about applying to:
NYU
CMU
CCM
Baldwin-Wallace
Wagner
Ithaca
Michigan
AMDA
UCLA
Fordham
JMU
Syracuse
Penn State
Rider
Viterbo
What are my chances of getting into these schools? Also, any recommendations for schools to look into applying to?
