My daughter Jessica has settled on 9 colleges to which she will apply. In the last six months, the college list has included
as few as 6 and as many as 16 but we are done now. Really.
Two schools have music programs for which the applications were due
on 1 December. Their submission dates are early because they need time to set up the January audition schedules. So, Jessica submitted both the Common Application and the Unified Application, SAT scores, UCSC Summer transcript, photo, Advance Placement scores, recommendation letters, High School transcript, fees, plus several essay and additional question supplements for those schools first.
We had great difficulties with actual online submission mechanism because of the web sites having an real-but-unacknowledged aversion to Macs. Jessica ended up talking with tech support in the early hours before school. All of the other school applications are due at the end of this month.
Jessica spent quite a bit of Thanksgiving week preparing for and
then producing her audition CD. She met separately with both
her choir teacher and her voice teacher several times each to
develop her presentation of four songs. Her Audition 2006 songs are:
- La lontananza (Gaetano Donizetti,1797-1848) in Italian
- American Lullaby (Gladys Rich) in English
- La mi sola, Laureola (Fernando Obradors, 1897-1945) in Spanish
- Silver Dagger (American folk song) in English
Some schools want only three pieces, others specify the languages
and styles so we now have four songs ready to pick from. Of course, we
had to develop a CD label and case design. For the case, John picked a
memorable photo of Jessica from 1999 with flour blown all over her face:
In addition to being college application season, it is wrestling
season. Jessica has been on the
Harker wrestling team for four years and at varsity level for
two years. She was beyond pleased last week when Coach K asked her
to be Team Captain! She has been working with the Freshmen
team members for months. It is good to see her hard work rewarded (and
the announcement timing was excellent). Jessica was able to add
“Wrestling Team Captain” to her applications just before they went out.
Image by Katy Dickinson (Copyright 1999)
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