Problems in scheduling for the auditions...

[cardinals]

I had the first audition in Colorado on Feb. 4 but due to severe weather condition (the snow/rainstorm and tornados all around the country earlier this week) I had to wait until the 7th and just got back to my home in Cincinnati earlier today...

But the problem is that I won't have enough time to go to Austin to have an audition there tomorrow...even if I take the Greyhound tonight the scheduled arrival will be around 24 hrs after then...so I called the admission office in U Texas to change the audition date but they told me the only day available would be the 23rd (there are only three days for the auditions in U Texas on Jan 26, Feb. 9 and Feb. 23 without any regional auditions or whatever)...which is only one day after the audition here in Cincinnati...

So I have a question to anybody who has experienced such time conflict in scheduling the auditions about how it could be avoided (i.e., by contacting directly the faculties to arrange new dates, etc)...because it seems that many of the universities / conservatories have audition dates only on Saturdays, so in the worst case I will have to cancel the application for one of them just in case they don't provide me any alternative dates...

[cardinals]

Luckily I just found a non-stop flight departing at 2p.m. from Cincinnati so now I can do the audition first in Cincinnati and another in Texas the next day...It is certainly better to use the flights rather than buses for long distance trips even if it costs hundreds of dollars more...

[dnephi]

DO they not pay for your plane tickets?

[cardinals]

DO they not pay for your plane tickets?

All the travel expenses are the responsibility of the auditionees...in my case, I had to spend over $1,500 even though all the universities except for two are located in Ohio or neighboring states...but they say that it is still better to visit the campus to do the live audition although some universities have the option of just sending CDs instead...

Anyway...now I can stop worrying about these scheduling stuffs and just focus on my practice!