JenniferM18 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Hi everyone. I’m new here and also on pins and needles incessantly checking my email. This is my daughter’s first year applying to RBS. We are in the USA (California) and she will be 12 this summer. Fingers crossed to all! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbuchan3 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Im assuming it’s all on the photos? Because I felt like we couldn’t give much detail in the questions. Is this correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenniferM18 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 24 minutes ago, Sbuchan3 said: Im assuming it’s all on the photos? Because I felt like we couldn’t give much detail in the questions. Is this correct? That is my understanding. I’m sure the school knows what they are looking for in the photos but it’s still hard to imagine how they decide who to accept just based on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunflower Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I am massively regretting not getting pro photos done for DD. I feel I’ve been sucked into this whole “no professional photos are needed” rhetoric, when actually a good photographer really knows what and how to take photos so much better than me with an old iphone! Be good to know if anyone (especially older girls) has been accepted with home done photos when they are up against so many others? 🤷🏻♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margarite Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) My DD got a place on the spring intensive and waitlist for summer when she was in year 10 - we took the photos at home on my iPhone. The next year we had pro photos done for auditions so used them to apply for the summer intensive - she got waitlist again! I think for intensives, as long as poses are correct, the picture quality doesn’t have to be perfect. Edited February 6 by margarite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbuchan3 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I feel like I regret not taking my time with the application because I feel like I left out information but actually when I think about it I don’t think much was needed! And yes, professional photos. Just so I don’t feel bad because I took the photos 😂🤦🏻♀️. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BalletMummy123 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I’m not holding out much hope as mine were also done at gone on my phone and weren’t the best 🙈 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbuchan3 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Anyway good luck to you all. Hope we all get some good news soon 🖤 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenniferM18 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I saw a post on a prior thread of someone getting in with iPhone photos taken in their living room, so I don’t really think it matters! What they are looking for I think goes beyond the quality of the photos, so don’t stress. We had professional photos done at the last minute but they are horrible and were done very rushed. My daughter looks mad in them and they don’t show her personally or skill whatsoever. So not holding out hope either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrise81 Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 I've never got dd professional photos and just take them myself! She manages to get accepted on to a variety of intensives. She seems to know if the position is correct. The form was also very simple. Just who they are, where they are from, and how long dancing tbh. She will have professional ones next year though as its upper school audition time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraH Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) Previous years her teacher took the pictures. She always had waitlist. Now another student at her school took the pictures and with those she got into ybs spring. (I used the same ones for the RBS summer application.) So I don't think it matters if they are professional or not. Fingers crossed for all of you! Let's hope for positive news soon!! Edited February 6 by BarbaraH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbuchan3 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I felt the same with my daughter’s photos. She’s such a beautiful dancer but the photos didn’t really show that I don’t think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Hello @Sbuchan3 and @JenniferM18 and welcome to the Forum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neverdancedjustamum Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Don’t worry too much about photos or what you put on the form. It’s hard to guess what they look for and it’s probably pointless doing so. Being their own associate doesn’t seem to give you any advantage either. My DD applied last year purely for fun and to see what happens and not expecting anything. She hates having photos taken so her photos were a mish mash of ones taken hurriedly after class at different times (using a phone and she was wearing different leotards!) so they weren’t even from the same day. I think this was also the form that asks how many hours you dance a week and which genres. In any case at the time she was only doing one ballet class within the week. So her total hours a week that we put on the form must have been very pitiful compared to others especially those who are in full time vocational school. By some miracle she was offered a place and not even from the waitlist. The week she went she was one of less than a handful from the U.K., the rest were international. To this day, we still don’t know how such a miracle happened, and it truly was given what was on her form and her photos. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbuchan3 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 That’s a great to hear! And well done to your daughter for getting in! It must be so special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HLH Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I would love to see the pictures of those who are accepted! Also I wonder if anyone has thought about emailing RBS to ask for an update as to when to expect results now that we are just beyond four weeks? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Foo Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 My dd did RBS summer school twice around the age of 12 and 13. We took the pics in the cramped living room with our 2 cats visibly perched on the sofa behind. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BisforBallet Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 We got the results 27/2 last year. Did it close earlier? I haven’t been refreshing my emails but I will now start having read this post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HLH Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Yes, this year it closed on 1/5, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLight Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Also waiting. It's excruciating! I'm sure that, especially for the younger ones, phone photos are fine! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanwings Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, NorthernLight said: Also waiting. It's excruciating! I'm sure that, especially for the younger ones, phone photos are fine! another day of checking emails..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLight Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Good morning, Thank you for your email. We aim to send out Summer Intensive 2024 results via email before mid-February. We thank you for your patience. Hope this helps. If you require any further information, do not hesitate to get back in touch. Kind regards, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLight Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 So maybe stop refreshing for now!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanwings Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 30 minutes ago, NorthernLight said: Good morning, Thank you for your email. We aim to send out Summer Intensive 2024 results via email before mid-February. We thank you for your patience. Hope this helps. If you require any further information, do not hesitate to get back in touch. Kind regards, Thanks for that, maybe next week then! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnielovesalbert Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Has anyone heard anything yet... It is taking a long time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraH Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 There is another item with the same title. Here someone asked RBS and they said they would send the results before mid Febuary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnielovesalbert Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 well that is confusing. Thanks for letting me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnielovesalbert Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Well it is half term on friday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BalletMummy123 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Argh what a pain! I wanted to book on another course if not accepted but the later it gets the less likely we will get a place on the other course 😢 never applied before so I just presumed it would be the 4 weeks wait lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLight Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Hopefully it will be this Friday as half term next week, as someone has mentioned..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballerinamom Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I had in my head Feb 5, but clearly that has come and gone. I’m still hoping this week as we have decisions to make. Saw somewhere else that due to large number of applications that it might take a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Hello @NorthernLight and welcome to the Forum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanwings Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 14 minutes ago, Ballerinamom said: I had in my head Feb 5, but clearly that has come and gone. I’m still hoping this week as we have decisions to make. Saw somewhere else that due to large number of applications that it might take a bit longer. They also said the same last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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