Hello all,
So I'm in a bit of an internal conflict and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to provide me with answers about this whole thing. So I applied for Eastman as an Undergraduate Bachelors in Music for Violin. However, I selected the Regional Audition, due to an extreme unforeseen circumstance that really left me with no choice but to do the audition down in my city. However, there were few applicants that signed up, so I was given the option to do the audition by recording, which I honestly had no problem with, and I think that it went well. I could definitely play those pieces I selected differently now, but the quality I think was good.
Now, the reason I worry about this is because I have been looking at various websites and it seems like every time a regional or an audition by recording is brought up, it usually says that it gives the faculty and admissions directors the sense that I don't really care about applying to that School, which is SO far from the truth - Eastman is one of my top choices and I would absolutely love to study there, especially with the Violin Professor Mikhail Kopelman.
The reason for my inability to attend the live audition is because I live in Houston, Texas, which was hit incredibly strong by Hurricane Harvey. My family literally lost our cars, furniture, other valuables, our house - pretty much everything. We are still recovering, but I had hopes of attending the live audition in Rochester - but due to these extreme and wildly unforeseen circumstances, I was not able to.
Do you think that if I was able to let the admissions directors or even the faculty know that I pretty much lost everything in a Hurricane which damaged my family's financial state so severely, that they might have a bit more mercy? I am not trying to make excuses at all, I accept my recording for the recording it is and that is all - but reading all the forums about how they look at people who do regional auditions and auditions by recording as people who aren't really interested - would it be wise to inform them so that they can possibly take that into account?
Basically" What should I do?
Any help would be immensely appreciated. Thank you very much.
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