A considered path forward
College & Career Counseling
A personalized path to college and beyond. Discover your strengths, clarify your goals, and make informed choices about your future.
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A future that fits the person you are becoming.
NorCal Arts’ identity-based, holistic approach goes beyond applications. College Counselor Vicki Johnson helps students develop self-awareness and confidence while prioritizing well-being. Guidance spans college exploration, applications, essays, auditions, artistic portfolios, scholarships, financial aid, and career planning—whether the goal is a conservatory, a university theatre program, or another path.
- Full service · Corps students
- $750
- Counselor
- Vicki Johnson
- Full service · Non-Corps students
- $2,925
Our approach
Know yourself. Shape your direction.
Identity & purpose
Gain a stronger understanding of who you are, what matters to you, and the strengths you bring.
Goals & self-advocacy
Establish and advocate for your college goals using current admissions knowledge and practical resources.
Informed choices
Balance artistic ambitions, personal well-being, and financial considerations as you evaluate your options.
Packages
Support for the journey you’re taking.
Performing Arts Corps students have access to full-service, individualized college counseling at a substantially reduced rate, exclusively available to Corps participants.
Our College Counseling Program supports students and families throughout the college planning and application process, with personalized guidance designed especially for students pursuing higher education and pathways in the performing arts.
This significant tuition benefit is part of NorCal Arts’ commitment to supporting Corps students not only as artists, but as they prepare for college, careers, and their next chapter.
Full-Service College Counseling
Develop a best-fit college list and demonstrated-interest plan; prepare a theatre résumé and audition plan; draft cohesive applications and memorable essays; manage submissions; navigate Unifieds and auditions for theatre majors; understand college finance; and make a college choice with cost in mind. Support is relevant regardless of major.
College Audition Coaching
Access personalized monologue and song selections, professional recording of prescreen videos, and prescreen coaching and viewing.
Full-Service College Counseling is $750 for Corps students and $2,925 for non-Corps students. The Corps benefit is access to this reduced rate; counseling is not free or automatically included at no additional cost. Contact Vicki about the separate audition-coaching package and the right level of support.
PREVIOUS STUDENT ACCEPTANCES
Many students. Many possible futures.
The NorCal team has helped students earn admission to colleges, conservatories, and BA/BFA programs including those below. These are previous outcomes, not guarantees of admission or scholarships.
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