Thank you so much. I’ll have to have her check it out. She doesn’t even have FB!
@gish814 - my D2 had a FB account, but hardly used it. I convinced her to join the auditioning students FB group (it’s Courtney’s Break Room this year - it’s different each year) and she ended up meeting lots of other students through it. One night at Chicago Unifieds they actually all decided to get together in one of the ballrooms - it was a LOT of kids! Most of the schools have accepted students FB groups. She was able to ask questions & get specific information from current students. My D1 was one of the admins for her school on their page.
@Gapyearguru - it’s not over, even after all acceptances have gone out. Each kid can only choose 1 college (right now, anyway :)) They can transfer later.) If a talented & lucky kid gets 4, 5, 6, 7 acceptances, when they choose their spot, all the spots they declined will open up. That’s why a spot on a waitlist is great. If your student has not heard either way, you might take that as a small sign of hope. (As a class of 2022 mom – I’m feeling for everyone riding the roller coaster now.) Hang in everyone!
@Atreuh Will you elaborate on how not hearing either way could be a sign of hope? Do the waitlist notifications for certain schools start to pick up at some point? Come in waves? Right now I feel like every one we haven’t heard from (that others have) is going to lower the boom at any moment! LOL
Having said that - my D did get a waitlist for U of Arizona the other day…and I noticed the timing of that was only after several rounds of acceptance calls took place. We were thrilled with it after several tough rejections lately! So, I guess that is an example that not hearing for a while meaning she wasn’t a hard “no.”
@Atreuh I know wayyyyyy too much about waitlists. This is my family’s third year IN A ROW of going thru this. Thank god it is the last!!! I’m a class of 2022 mom as well, and my oldest ended up at her school after coming off of the waitlist. Will probably have to go thru detox after this is all over ???
@hamdog123 My son was rejected by a few of his “dream” schools last year. The hardest hit was USC since both my husband and I are alumni and we donate money yearly. They DID offer him a second year transfer into the school but not at the acting school unless he auditioned again. Not what he wanted and we were very bummed. However…he WAS accepted into BU. I knew very little about the school and no one in our family had been to Boston before. He accepted as he enjoyed the program after he visited and tagged along with a student for the day. Fast forward to today: he LOVES the program! He is doing better there than he ever did in high school and it is the perfect “fit” for him. I look at the Freshman acting class he is in and they are really part of an ensemble. There are no two kids alike. I do believe his audition had a lot to do with his acceptance but I also think they were looking for his type. And I do not feel we “settled”. It wasn’t his first choice but we are so grateful and happy he is there. BU has been so wonderful and we would love our next child to attend (but in psychology, lol) It really was meant to be for my son. You can be disappointed that you didn’t get in your dream school for a bit but then let it go and have faith that your child will find a fit for them. All these schools are fantastic! The kids will do well if they push hard afterward because I truly believe that what they put into this major will come out in the end. Not all CMU graduates are working actors. Not all Juilliard actors are working actors. Most working actors, I hate to say it, never went to college at all! It is up to them what they do after they graduate and luck helps as well. Be happy and don’t feel like you are settling. My two cents.
@Gapyearguru - you and other families who do this more than once deserve a medal for endurance!!! And a nice long vacation too! ^:)^
@actinghopeful – I know of a kid who committed to a small top school, then changed his mind last June. Someone got that spot. Last May (after decision day) the BFA program head at a good school called my S, trying to persuade him to come & visit, see a play and maybe change his mind. (S had declined the offer in April and was already committed elsewhere.) So, in May, that school still had an open spot for another kid!
Before May 1st (the official decision day for most schools), kids & families with a few acceptances may be weighing out the offers and negotiating the finances. This often means they do not decline offers until late April. When those spots open up for the waitlists, you’ll read on this board of kids getting surprise acceptances in May. It is certainly a grueling process if your kid is looking for signs of hope from a certain school. But, as @HopeinMT explained above – the perfect fit can happen, even when it’s not the “dream” school! (BU is very dream-worthy, IMHO.) Positive vibes to all!
@MTmom2017 Thank you so much for the info!
@Atreuh Thank you!
@LGC789 First time post here too- AND First year I’m not a fan of a spring break, lol!
Waitlist is confusing to me in this way, at one of the info sessions at Unifieds, the auditor said that they sent out 70 acceptances in hopes of hearing yes from 20 of them. So does the waitlist start after the 70? I imagine that different schools have a different number of acceptances that they send out. I think it was BU, but I could be wrong on that.
I just want to say congrats to all the acceptances and waitlisted. I do have a few questions for anyone who wants to answer. My son is very big in acting. He decided early on this is what he wants. However he was trying to be helpful by applying to in state schools for cost. I did not realize this at the time and it was too late once I figured it out. This really limited his choices. We are still waiting on decisions from the schools he applied too. My question is if he does not get accepted into to any of them how does it work if we go about waiting for one year till next year and really prepare. He does not want to waste money going to a school that does not interest him.
That’s exactly our plan. Always has been. Not going to go to college just for the sake of going to college. If not accepted then doing a productive gap year. Get experience in local theatre companies. Research to see if there are additional schools to apply to…realized too late that there are so many great, secret gems out there. Have see a few ppl on these boards who did that and said it was the best thing they did and came back stronger with better outcomes for acceptances the second go around.
@medusa29 - what a great guy you’ve raised! The term used frequently for a year off to train and reapply is “gap year” and lots of people have had great experiences going that way. The MT board has more in depth discussions than the acting board so maybe check these out…
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1978488-gap-year-antecdotes-p1.html
For Medusa 29 - I think there are still some BFA Acting schools that are still accepting applications. I don’t know where you are but Southern Oregon has a BFA acting(fairly classical training I am told - as they are next to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and I think that they take applications until April 1. I’m guessing that your son will get into a school that he has applied to, but if he feels he didn’t cast a wide enough net, you might check out some of the lesser-known BFA programs. Its a beautiful campus with a really nice program that is close enough to Los Angeles (West Coast) that he could do Unified Auditions again next year to other schools for more options. I am sure that all of his credits would transfer, but you may run into that extra year. My other son transferred from Mason Gross to another BFA program and all of his credits transferred into the new BFA Acting program.
@BelleHankmom Do you mind sharing why your other son transferred from Mason Gross? Curious to find out if he was unhappy there and why.
@Medusa29 I believe LIU Brooklyn still accepts applications for BFA Acting for Theater, Film & TV, it’s a new program.
To love2 share - He was just evolving into that stage of “wanting a double major” and at the time, it was not a possibility at Mason Gross. This was several years ago, things may be different now, we did not apply there this time around with our youngest. It’s always a possibility that creative kids will decide they want to go wide instead of deep into their craft and we experienced that! Everything turned out fine. All credits transferred beautifully.
What’s the name of the Facebook group for the kids? My son wants to check it out.