How are students assigned to a particular choir?
The person in charge of Auditions in ETVA follows a procedure to assign the students to a particular choir. ETVA has an assigned quota of slots per section in the All-State SATB, Womens and Mens Choruses. The process of determining this quota is explained on the TMEA All State webpage. After auditions AND after students have completed All-East, the person doing the assignments takes the top scores (as determined in the October audition) from each voice part down to the quota. The students are assigned a random number and sorted to give each student an equal chance to be assigned to any choir. After the students are sorted randomly, the correct numbers of students are assigned to each choir. Then the next ten scores below the cutoff score are designated as alternates and are alternately assigned to the SATB or Mens/Womens Choirs.
