The red shoes

15 minutes ago, Lara Eschler said:

Maybe your DS is known to the school as an associate YD so they might look at other applicants first?

I promised myself not to go into analytics and drive myself even more insane. but here I am with the dumb question, how do you know the number of viewers that are not yourself? I was trying to look into the geographical location of views but that function is unavailable. xx

Yes you’re probably right. I doubt they will even look at the year 6 young dancers videos tbh... will save them time for sure. 
I only know about views as made a mental note of how many times I’ve watched it 🤣🤣

No views here either... though with approximately 600 videos to watch I think I need to learn to be more patient!! Lol 

Elmhurst still haven’t started looking at videos. This is going to be a longggggggggggg process!!! 

Just received a letter from Elmhurst in the post... nearly had heart failure... just DS invoice for this terms young dancers classes 😂😂😂😂

Last year definitely were letters but then who knows what will happen this year .... xx 

Am I right in thinking they should get a letter inviting them to finals like they did last year?  Elmhurst I’m talking about 

12 minutes ago, Amme said:

Thank you! It’s ok, she’s 17 so a bit older. We’re international so it makes things a bit trickier! She was offered a spot last year but didn’t accept due to covid.

That’s such a shame . This pandemic has so much to answer for 😭

1 minute ago, Amme said:

My DD isn’t a year 7 entry, but we’ve already heard back to say they can’t offer her anything. So they’re definitely on top of things and checking applications! 

Sorry to hear that 😞

What year was she applying for?  Did they suggest she try again next year? 

Anyone had any views on their Elmhurst video yet? 

2 minutes ago, Bunny said:

That email is such fab news! I’m so pleased they are still planning for in person finals. Boys finals early March makes me suspect we might just hear a little earlier than end of Feb as two weeks isn’t an awful lot of time for those of us at the other end of the country to organise getting there, staying over etc whilst there are restrictions. But either way it’s great that they are being so organised and keeping us so well informed! x

Yes I think we will hear by end of this month given boys finals are early- mid March. They like to give at least a month preparation to students 

Just now, ponklemum said:

I’ve just seen the email from Royal about planning in person finals. They’re getting organised. Xx

I nearly spat out my drink when I saw an email from the auditions team!!! X

They’ve said they hope to let us know by the end of February so I’m afraid it’s going to be along old wait. They will have hundreds to filter through and sift out into Yes , No and Maybe xx 

6 minutes ago, Whiteduvet said:

How many views have you had? We had a few but everyone else seems to only have had one...? 

Did you send the link to anyone else? Teacher? Family member? As they might have viewed it .

2 minutes ago, Crazylifecrazykids said:

Has the RBS one been watched?  Xx

We had a view on our RBS video xx

6 minutes ago, Raquelle said:

I think we had elmhurst views it was the week before christmas x 

How long for? We had one just after I sent it in but it was for 2secs to check link worked I think xx 

We haven’t had our Elmhurst video viewed yet so can’t imagine we will find out anytime soon 

1 minute ago, ponklemum said:

They're hoping to get all results out by 1st March xx

That could also be down to the fa t that they are looking at year 6 young dancers in smaller groups this term so maybe getting a better idea of them than just the short video 🤷🏼‍♀️... I could be wrong of course x

Well Done to your children!! How long after the closing date did you get results? Was it a video audition?

They won’t have watched just half from the beginning as it were... if they’ve watched say 6 mins of a 13 minute video it could mean they skipped through certain bits to see the parts they really need/ want to see. 
outs was viewed back in November just after the “ original” closing date , before it got extended to January.

6 minutes was watched and I can see from the analytics that bits were skipped through etc .

4 minutes ago, Bunny said:

That’s fab, thank you, it’s just with me sending it over the Christmas holidays she obviously hasn’t been in the school to be able to reply so I think I’ll give it a few days and then if I don’t hear I’ll drop another email and check it’s all working okay. Was the deadline the 11th of Jan? I just want to make sure it’s all okay by then! Haha x

The closing date for Elmhurst is the 8th January so I’d email again tomorrow to check she has received it xx

5 minutes ago, Bunny said:

Hi guys, did anyone submit their Elmhurst video over the Christmas break via email? A friend has just applied for her son and said now the application form has a place for you to upload the video, but when I applied for my DS this wasn’t an option. I sent it via email and haven’t had any confirmation yet. I am sure the registrar is just super busy with it being her first day back, and I’ve checked my outbox to try and reassure myself I’ve sent it properly haha but I just thought I’d check if anybody else was in the same boat? x

We sent ours in December via email. The registrar replied the next day to say she had received it and it’s subsequently had one view for 4 secs to check the link is working too.

Im sure she will get back to you xx 

16 minutes ago, TwirlyWhirly said:

Think they'll make up their minds quickly about my DS's ditzy mother!! 🤣

🤣🤣🤣

Just now, TwirlyWhirly said:

Thanks for that. We followed the initial guidelines on the website, which did not state one/ both or otherwise. The subsequent more detailed advice was only put on the website after we had submitted, which I agree with you, says both sides (I have only just looked at it!). However, they surely can't disadvantage an applicant who submitted following their original guidelines? It's too late for us to do anything anyway!! 😬

I really wouldn’t worry about it... I am my DS Ballet teacher and we missed out something on the Elmhurst video 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️... I really wouldn’t worry, they make their minds up very quickly xx

1 minute ago, TwirlyWhirly said:

I've only done cambres on one side, submitting back in November. The website isn't clear about one or both sides anyway so don't worry about it! It'll be OK! 

The zoom meeting back in October they said do cambrés both sides 

5 minutes ago, ponklemum said:

Thank you so much. For some reason I think ds did everything on both sides except the Cambrés. 

Don’t worry too much... they’ll see what they need to from one side xxx