Duke Ellington Family Interviews

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Very few kids get the family interview. It's basically the final step in the audition process.

I heard that visual arts family interviews happened last week.

I meant everyone who gets beyond the callbacks. Someone above said they knew students admitted without the interview

[Anonymous]

Hi, I just found this forum. My son auditioned for Visual Arts but we have not heard anything. I called the school a couple of times and received confusing answers. Congrats to the families that were called!!!
Should we assumed that if we were not called for interview by now, he won't be admitted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know if they made the cut in any discipline? I was told that if they offer you a family interview you can assume that you got in. Anyone heard from Duke Ellington yet on when Family Interviews will take place?

They should use the family interview to ferret out DC residency fraud, which historically has been a major problem at Ellington. This taxpayer-funded school was not created to educate PG County at the expense of places for young Washingtonians.

[Anonymous]

My question is if they interview everybody they consider or if we were not called, if we can still have hope for our son?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My question is if they interview everybody they consider or if we were not called, if we can still have hope for our son?

My understanding is the family interview is the last step, so if they have not requested an interview, your child probably didn't make it. We were offered an interview and attended. My child is not interested in going to Ellington next year. We also got an email with reminders sometime last week. I imagine we are not the only ones that would not accept if offered a spot, so there's likely movement after the enrollment deadline. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your answer! This process has been very confusing and we have lacked information. I appreciate this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is if they interview everybody they consider or if we were not called, if we can still have hope for our son?

My understanding is the family interview is the last step, so if they have not requested an interview, your child probably didn't make it. We were offered an interview and attended. My child is not interested in going to Ellington next year. We also got an email with reminders sometime last week. I imagine we are not the only ones that would not accept if offered a spot, so there's likely movement after the enrollment deadline. Good luck!

Where does your child want to go? I have an arts kid and they don’t want to go to DE either!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your answer! This process has been very confusing and we have lacked information. I appreciate this forum.

Essentially if slots are open after students have to commit, there's a possible shot. However, there isn't really a "waiting list" per se. Most people who would be on a waiting list are people who were also interviewed. Post-lottery second looks can happen though if the departments fall below target.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is if they interview everybody they consider or if we were not called, if we can still have hope for our son?

My understanding is the family interview is the last step, so if they have not requested an interview, your child probably didn't make it. We were offered an interview and attended. My child is not interested in going to Ellington next year. We also got an email with reminders sometime last week. I imagine we are not the only ones that would not accept if offered a spot, so there's likely movement after the enrollment deadline. Good luck!

Where does your child want to go? I have an arts kid and they don’t want to go to DE either!

New poster here, but JR has an art department and we will just go there as my child doesn't want to major in art but wants to be in law enforcement. We did the process for the experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your answer! This process has been very confusing and we have lacked information. I appreciate this forum.

Essentially if slots are open after students have to commit, there's a possible shot. However, there isn't really a "waiting list" per se. Most people who would be on a waiting list are people who were also interviewed. Post-lottery second looks can happen though if the departments fall below target.

The only department that usually keeps a waitlist is theater tech. It is very, very rare for a department to reconsider a student they didn't pass through to the final audition round the first time.

There is a second round of auditions post-lottery, but students can only apply to a different department.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know if they made the cut in any discipline? I was told that if they offer you a family interview you can assume that you got in. Anyone heard from Duke Ellington yet on when Family Interviews will take place?

They should use the family interview to ferret out DC residency fraud, which historically has been a major problem at Ellington. This taxpayer-funded school was not created to educate PG County at the expense of places for young Washingtonians.

Non residents can attend they do have to pay tuition

[Anonymous]

Got results today, waitlisted #4 for dance. Anyone have experience with being waitlisted - do spots typically open up? I combed the historical data and it didn’t look like waitlisting was a thing for most departments.

[Anonymous]

Just saw the result and says "Ineligible". That is really confusing and disappointing since we are DC residents and he got verbal positive feedback during Visual Arts audition but never a word after that, not email or nothing with either positive or negative feedback. We were never called for interview but were not told that he didn't make the cut for his performance in the Audition either. (Total silence). I contacted the school admissions a couple of times after that to inquire about dates of the process and never got a response to my messages, other than the automatic replays. I have received more information in this forum than from the school... How can DE can determine somebody Ineligible if they don't even take the applicant trough the whole process? Their website says applicants will receive feedback 2 weeks after auditions and that never happened for us, if they had done that, we could have been saved from almost 2 months of unnecessary uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the result and says "Ineligible". That is really confusing and disappointing since we are DC residents and he got verbal positive feedback during Visual Arts audition but never a word after that, not email or nothing with either positive or negative feedback. We were never called for interview but were not told that he didn't make the cut for his performance in the Audition either. (Total silence). I contacted the school admissions a couple of times after that to inquire about dates of the process and never got a response to my messages, other than the automatic replays. I have received more information in this forum than from the school... How can DE can determine somebody Ineligible if they don't even take the applicant trough the whole process? Their website says applicants will receive feedback 2 weeks after auditions and that never happened for us, if they had done that, we could have been saved from almost 2 months of unnecessary uncertainty.

Our kiddo made the callback and we had the family interview and we also ended up with ineligible. It sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the result and says "Ineligible". That is really confusing and disappointing since we are DC residents and he got verbal positive feedback during Visual Arts audition but never a word after that, not email or nothing with either positive or negative feedback. We were never called for interview but were not told that he didn't make the cut for his performance in the Audition either. (Total silence). I contacted the school admissions a couple of times after that to inquire about dates of the process and never got a response to my messages, other than the automatic replays. I have received more information in this forum than from the school... How can DE can determine somebody Ineligible if they don't even take the applicant trough the whole process? Their website says applicants will receive feedback 2 weeks after auditions and that never happened for us, if they had done that, we could have been saved from almost 2 months of unnecessary uncertainty.

Current DE visual arts parent here. I can tell you this:

There’s a new department head so things aren’t running a smoothly as they have (former head retired after 30 years).
For visual arts, portfolio is #1. They offer spots to the top students, period. My child said they saw the work of some of the “rejects” last year and they ranged from really bad (like, you’re delusional if you think you’re getting into this school with that portfolio) to not bad/had potential. So even if your kid loves art and may have been considered “good at art” in middle school, they’re competing with students from all over DC and even MD and VA. They don’t look at residency when picking the top artists. I believe this is true for all departments.