Anyone hear from suny purchase???
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[ color=red]Username D or S School Date aud Date accptd [/color]
actor16
Baldwin Wallace aud 11/19 accptd 12/8
Viterbo aud 12/2 accptd 12/5
actorparent1 D
Marymount Manhattan aud 11/18 accptd 11/28
Atreuh S
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign (UIUC) – Aud 10/21 / accptd 12/15
DePaul BFA acting / aud 1/27 / accptd 3/9
BFA2018 D
Bard College BA Theatre and Performance non-audition EA accepted mid-December
Sarah Lawrence BA Theatre non-audition accepted mid-January
bikingvikings
CalArts BFA Acting
Aud 2/3 Accepted 3/2
booknerdmom
SUNY Fredonia, BFA Acting, aud 2/24 / accepted 2/27 letter
bretzki5
elon 12/15
CCMTNEWBIE D
Shenandoah University - BFA Acting Aud NYC W/I 1/21 Accepted 2/16
DiamondParent D
DeSales University - BA acting audition 12/9 accepted mid-December
University of Evansville - BFA acting audition 1/21 accepted 2/2
DoinResearch
University of IL Chicago (UIC) BA Aud 12/9 accepted 1/4
Beloit College no audition accepted 12/21
Lawrence University no audition accepted 1/22 Talent scholarship $ audition scheduled in Feb
Illinois Wesleyan BA scholarship audition 1/27, accepted 2/8
Knox College BA scholarship audition 1/4, accepted 2/9
fingerscrossedMT D
University of Northern Colorado BFA MT aud 2/10 accptd 2/22
FourStars D
Marymount Manhattan aud 11/18 accptd 11/28
Loyola Marymount Univ. BA Theater EA. Video Audition. accptd 12/18
UNCSA audition 1/21, accepted 2/19
U Minnesota Guthrie Actor Training. Aud 1/19, Callback 2/23-25 Accptd 3/6
Gina1102 D
The New School 11/11 audition12/16 accepted
The Hartt School Audition 12/9 accepted 1/16
University of the Arts - Audition 1/20 accepted 2/1
Loyola Marymount BA Theatre Arts accepted 2/2
U Minnesota Guthrie Actor Training. Aud 2/4, Callback 2/23-25 Accptd 3/5
gulf1609 D
Bard BA Theater and Performance, EA mid Dec.
LMU BA Theater, video audition, EA mid-December
Univ of Texas, BA Theater, aud 12/8 accepted 2/12
jenniferm1973 D
Millikin, BFA Acting 2/4, 2/19
Rider BA Acting 2/5, 2/23
UArts BFA MT 2/5. 2/23
Marymount Manhattan BFA Acting 2/13, 3/2
Laylamom D
Baldwin Wallace BFA acting 12/8
Elon BFA acting 12/15
Emerson BFA MT 12/16
Marymount Manhattan BFA acting 1/23
U of Arts BFA acting 2/22
momof2lefties
U of Evansville, NYC Unifieds 1/21, (Design/Tech–Costume) accepted 2/1
Shenandoah, NYC Unifieds 1/21, (Design/Prod–Costume) accepted 2/1
UNCSA, on-campus 11/17 (Costume Design/Tech) accepted 2/26
NJMOM24 S
Marymount Manhattan - digital audition accepted 1/19
Noreplays2018 D
Elon aud 10/21; accepted 12/15
Illinois Wesleyan aud 10/27; accepted 12/01
Rollins College BA, accepted 1/15
Orion1325 S
Marymount Manhattan - Auditioned 1/20, Accepted 1/23
Viterbo - Auditioned at Chicago Unifieds, Accepted 2/21
University of Evansville - Auditioned at Chicago Unifieds, Accepted 3/1
TCU - Auditioned at Chicago Unifieds, Accepted 3/7
proudcalidad D
Marymount Manhattan (Directing) - Interviewed 1/20, Accepted 1/23
Fordham (Performance) - Auditioned 1/27, Accepted 3-2
SFSClark S
CCM Acting audition at NYC Unfieds
STHmom S
University of the Arts - BFA Acting
Dean College - BFA Acting
Rider University - BA Acting
SMU Meadows School of the Arts- - (in artistically, awaiting an academic decision)
Twoboysandadog
Chapman Screen Acting 12/15
Emerson 12/16
Theatrebee
Emerson 12/15
mtmaybe
LIU-Post BFA Theatre Arts-Acting Concentration 02/05 aud 02/14 academic acceptance 02/20 artistic acceptance
Congrats! @Atreuh I love DePaul! At the risk of repeating myself, it was a knife to heart when my kid didn’t apply there.
So. Many. Little. Knives. Stay strong, everyone!
@DoinResearch - Thanks! Your S has great options. He will land in the right place! But I know what you mean.
At the Chicago unifieds, I wondered out loud if S could do a walk-on for a certain excellent program in Pittsburgh - my hometown. He kindly reminded me that he never wanted to go there. OK then. 
@Atreuh @DoinResearch Second and third the emotion. We live in SoCal, a stone’s throw from CalArts, we’ve got connections at a bunch of places down here, the weather is amazing, the training is great – and all my D wants is NYC or London. But hey, I moved across the country to California to follow my dream, and now she’s heading back the other way to follow hers. So be it! But yeah, sometimes: ouch!
The other theater parents, when they inquire about my son “what conservator is Kid1 applying to…” I actually think I do physically clutch my heart as I explain. Drama in the drama department.
@DoinResearch FWIW, I think you and your son have pursued the wisest course among us all. Truly. A BA at an LAC with funding/scholarships is something to clutch your heart about in absolute JOY! My friend from college, who got a BA at IWU says that when she went to NYC to audition and was working at Tisch as a secretary to pay the bills, one of the faculty found out she knew how to stage manage shows (because she was a BA at IWU – not a BFA) and hired her to be a stage manager at Tisch. For that last decade she has been a Director at Renaissance Theater in Milwaukee (which gives priority to plays about women and minorities and hires women and minorities almost exclusively) and she is now the Managing Director at Forward Theater, in Madison, WI. She spent a decade in NYC, acting off Broadway, and never realized the dream she had as an actor (even though our other sorority sister who was a BIO major headed to Medical School ended up to be a very famous, Tony-award winning Exec Producer of many headline BW shows – go figure!). But (and its a big “BUT”), she has acted in many community plays (is such a wonderful actress), hosted a local television show, and more importantly has given so many jobs and opportunities to young aspiring female actors and other actors of color! She always tells me that if someone graduates with IWU theater department on their resume, she will give them a job, no questions asked.
Her counsel to my D has been to broaden her horizons as much as she can as early as she can because the more different kinds of people (non-theater kids) she knows, and the more she knows about other subjects and places, the better an actor she will be. And the BA is the best way to do that IMHO. Training is essential, yes, but there are many ways to get that over the summers, or even by taking a semester off to study in a conservatory type setting.
Yes, my D is probably going for the BFA in Acting at IWU or ELON (still waiting on a few “elite” schools but mostly I think because she wants to finish what she started and she WILL be immediately declining any offers if she gets them to make sure someone else gets her offer), but she picked IWU and ELON because she has some hope of getting a liberal arts education alongside the BFA. She knows, however, that all the other subjects she is so interested in and passionate about (women’s studies, environmental science, sociology, as well as costume design/fine art, and playwriting – all these things she will NOT be able to do more than dabble in with a BFA-Acting track. She will be lucky to fit in a minor in dance and voice to keep her MT dreams alive).
So, I hope you can unclench your hand from your heart, because your son’s path is an awesome one. A BFA is a terminal degree. People do go on to get the MFA with a BFA, but unless its a different area of theater I think its not usually done? I could be wrong. A solid B.A. in theater, without debt, and with a stronger sense of himself and his vision could easily lead to a great MFA at a top tier school like Yale and lead to really great things.
Blessings.
@Atreuh Congrats on DePaul, that is huge! And @ginaf1102! I hope to see this board explode these next few weeks!
@Noreplays2018 I keep coming back and reading your post over and over because it echoes so many things D has said over the years as she’s pondered her future. For example, few years back she realized that having all her social group being people focussed on performing arts was going to limit her acting ability; she needed a wider variety of experiences and examples of “ways of being in the world” (probably an odd thing for someone so young to think about, now that I think about it).
And, yes, the other interests outside of theater, including environmental science, are there. So exciting to read about other kids thinking about these some things! How to effect change in the world, the necessity of story-telling, working in a collaborative manner, the need to examine history and sociology in order to understand the path she hopes to forge – all important to her, and available in either a theater degree or a liberal arts degree.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. I"m so excited for these kids to find each other at their future schools, and start changing the world.
@Noreplays2018 I think you should copy and paste your last post onto the main BFA acting board…it is very valuable and will get seen by a lot more people. My D also decided to go the BA route last year, although it was a tough decision!
Thank you, @Noreplays2018 I know this in my head, but my heart has had a slower time catching up. As a parent, I developed some dreams along the way, and just want to put it out there honestly that while my kid is trying to decide his path, I concurrently have my own journey. This is really the only place that I feel others will understand the internal parent struggle. Such kind words. I know my kid will have an unconventional journey, because he’s unconventional.
@Noreplays2018 My S got his BFA MT acceptance from IWU today! Since we are from NY (and proximity to programs), he was surprised by how much he loved it there! The campus felt like a big campus to me, just beautiful. I was also very impressed with their philosophy and student involvement during auditions.
@#booknerdmom I wonder if I met your son-when did he audition? I also just got news of my acceptance!
@#booknerdmom Congrats to your S! How did he receive notification? My D is waiting to hear as well. Fingers crossed!
@mtmaybe Auditioned at IWU on 3/3, full day with audition & tour!
@diamondntheruff Big envelope acceptance from IWU, letter date 3/9.
@“Jamieand Winthrop” Thank you so much for those kind words. Me too!
@DoinResearch Wow, that is truly honest. Bravo. Amen. Yep, me too. Its MY DREAMS that are hard to let go! My D leaving this year is my youngest, and the empty nest syndrome had hit me between the eyes, punched me in the gut, and wrings my heart nearly every day. I am driving my D bonkers with my over involvement in her life. I decided tonight that I was going to Yoga again twice a week, even if those are the two nights she is home from rehearsal. Time to start living my life again and not be afraid of her walking boldly into her future, without me.
@booknerdmom ! Yahoo! Way to go! I am an alum from 1987, and I can tell you that I loved every year there. I never felt like I wanted to leave campus. Every season there is beautiful. And, the chapel is a place of art. Check out the upper balcony looking out over the quad for a truly inspiring place to study. The community there is intoxicating. And, the faculty is first rate. IWU not only has one of the top job placement rates in the country, but they also send many many students on to great graduate programs.
@mtmaybe Congratulations!