Anyone know how the Rutgers do post grad? My S is deciding between two programs ?
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Hi @TwinGMom My S was essentially accepted on audition day and had a few emails and a couple of phone calls. the Mailed letter appears to be generated. It is literally a Pace folder with a generated letter with his name/address etc. Itās also dated March 14th but we received it by usps today
@Notmommarose I only know of the 2 recent grads doing a popular netflix show. Iām sure more are doing other things The good thing about Rutgers is that you complete your degree in 3.5 years instead of 4. The London globe aspect sounds amazing for your resume (only Iām assuming) but I donāt believe that many Americans actually find good work there. I may be wrong. My S. is torn about their program right now and he says that he will make a decision this week
Yes. I was wondering if they all get agents after the showcase. He is deciding between Rutgers and BW MT . He was sold on Rutgers after callback weekend ! But the BW kids seem to do really well w / managers and agents . Just wondering if Rutgers showcase is well attended and respected by industry folks ā¦
@actingdreams aha, you had a very different experience than most actors for them, definitely something special they wanted and didnāt want to wait at all, luck plus talent and then some (also peeked at the accepted by student name list and it sounds like he has a lot of great great choices to pick from!)
Mine only applied to 12 acting programs and one film program, half by accident, but she also hadnāt decided for sure if she wanted to do film making yet at that point. She had a list of ones that she was most interested in, but considered a reach for anyoneā¦ So far no rejections from that list but for almost anyone several of them were slim odds to get a spot with tiny acceptance rates and a few not at her SAT level (honor roll but not top of it and better grades then SATs) with academics weighing hard in the collegeās decisions. She applied to six from that list and then some that she realized she wasnāt really that interested in unless a campus audition visit wowwed her, and felt less interested after auditions at almost all that werenāt in the list of 6.
I told her that itās her call on which to apply to and how many, she worked with a pair of area AEA actors to select colleges, plan audition schedules, select monologues and practice them in a total of 6 sessions (planning and practice included). She was firm that she didnāt want to apply to more this year and knew that we would back her if she didnāt get in where sheād like in the end and took a year off to act here, in NY or LA.
So there was a relaxed state to it before audition dates began, haha. If only she werenāt most in love with a college we hadnāt heard from.
@Work64 I am sorry about Pace.
Congrats to all the people who got accepted to my alma mater! USC is a fantastic school! I would give anything for my son to stay in CA and go there but ā¦who knows why? Crazy this part of life is. Anyway still waiting on Pace and NYU.
Most likely he will go to BU. We will visit in two weeks and make the final decision. He has that or Acting BA at Rider or BFA MT at Colorado Boulder. I think BU would be the best program. But now I am crying lots because he will be so far away. This is really tough. We went into this so blind and I regret so many things but it is what it is. I pray he gets another choice: Pace or NYU. I would feel better with that.
@frontrowmama My D is drawn to CalArts for several reasons. She likes the cutting edge and diversity of productions, the true conservatory experience, and the possibilities of work after graduation due to the vast alumni network. We live in So. Cal. and it is highly respected and represented in the theater and film industry here.
@TwinGMom it sounds like your daughter has the backbone for this path. Very sure of her decisions. You should be proud.
I think some of these colleges had to go through more applications than usual. It has been a long delay for many schools. I am hoping that she gets into the one shesās waiting on but I can already tell that she has to be something special to even consider film school. Would love to hear if she gets accepted into her dream school.
@MomofJ5 I think she would have asked a specific questions about the size that of the class admitted and what plans were in place to support the increased number of students. As she explained it, it wasnāt just a high yield. The school chose to increase the number of accepted students to the BFA Theater and Performance major. She also would have asked more about the actual studio class hours. First year students arenāt cast in school productions and the school did talk up performance opportunities through student productions. She might have asked more specific questions about these. It is difficult to say whether she could have (or we could have) known enough to ask at the time. She was so excited to go to college and continue to pursue theater. Even if she had those the answers, Iām not sure she would have been able to foresee how her experience would unfold. It is hard for any of us to know how our children will react to a first year college experience, and even if I had some doubts about the fit for her, she wasnāt open to hearing this from me.
@Naevia 10 hours per week of studio time total for acting, voice, and movement. She really wanted the conservatory experience of 20+ hours per week.
@HopeinMT BU is a really wonderful university with many close knit āschoolsā within it. I am not sure why my daughter didnāt consider them but many people we know seem to feel very positive towards their acting program with their hearts set on it over even the ones my daughter marked as top choices and top reach programs! I didnāt go to BU but was accepted as a business major and I declined them, then wound up in my first apartment with 4 roommates who were all BU students (itās a serious college town, if you have time to socialize and any outside interests you can find a group of friends in town from a diverse group of colleges, even way back before facebook or even internet message boards!)
@TwinGMom Pace was just a standard acceptance letter dated March 14th. He had been called around the 12th. Hope that helps. Seems like a lot of kids are waiting still!
Has anyone still not heard since Texas state BFA Acting PH? At this point I feel as if my S has been waistlisted and as much as he has been trying not let it affect him well, itās college Iām sure it would affect anyone greatly. Iām starting to get worried that itās so late and many other offers have been made yet not an email stating a waitlist. Anyone else have more information on this/in the same boat?
@actingdreams
As they said in Gypsy āYou gotta have a gimmick!ā which was twins/siblings to get their leg in the door, secondary gimmick (or limit) was their race, an advantage for rare roles that match, a disadvantage the rest of the time but it will be better odds for adult roles than youth roles. Then they have had to ābring itā the rest of the way.
Everything on her resume for theatre is a mix of her determination, hard work, treating every role as a learning experience. Not overtraining, but taking short classes for work instead of for fun, taking roles for work instead of fun, no school plays except a single 6th grade musical for my biology-major girl (i tried to talk them into it and both were going to audition but my acting major landed a principal role in a world premiere at ART that made her unavailable for anything but a student asst director opportunity). They had more stage acting roles as single actors then as siblings and only 2 stage roles that were written as asian. (I sought child role submissions with only 0-1 parent on stage if it wasnāt written to be asian specifically, and a few times at least one was cast as a very specifically non-asian character who happened to have just one parent in the script).
For film, the ābiggerā projects were a huge part total chance, and partial match to the rare demographics needed, then after that, having enough experience from theatre and enough capability/skill to finish getting the roles altered in age for one or both girls, and pretending that they were 100% asian instead of 50% for most roles.
To get solid work as adult actors though, she needs some transitional training and some targeted education at a minimum, but not necessarily a degree in acting if she wanted to get their more slowly. (So who knows if my biology-major daughter will fall back to acting later and do training in other ways.) And learning at least some of the backend is important if either wants solid pay and to only work in film or theatreā¦ So a film major would have worked with outside acting training and more paid work off screen than onā¦ or an acting major with whatever film or theatre creating/crew learning that she can squeeze in or experience in her spare time.
Weāve always talked about the reality of the odds with or without skill that they face and how different it would be as adult actors (both in terms of role content and what they are expected to know on the business end an the training end).
So sheās not going into this star struck or to have fun/make friends, or to ever actually face people who have seen her act, sheās better at doing that now, though than when she started out. Sheās in it to help connect the audience to the material or the character that was written and envisioned by the creative teamā¦ and because she can do the work well enough and learn new things about the characters or setting for herself. (At least thatās what she tells me when I ask and when sheās written it or been asked it in talkbacks/Q&As or interviews.)
@Yuhu459, congratulations on both the CCPA and UArts acceptances! Both are great places!
I asked my D, a junior MT major who has taken an interest in acting for film, about your question for UArts, and this is a summary of our discussion:
UArts is possibly developing an acting in film minor. I donāt know when that will be implemented; thatād be a good question to ask. Even if itās not implemented for a while (or gets sidetracked), I think it demonstrates that they are committed to providing experiences and training specific to film while still emphasizing classic theatre acting training, which, as I understand it, is the basis of all acting, film or stage.
The head of the theatre department has a particular interest and experience in film acting, and he is heavily invested in his students (as weāve experienced with all of Dās professors/teachers/coaches at UArts in her major and even some outside of her major). For example, he has talked at length with my D outside of film acting studio several times about film acting, the industry, and Dās future.
While at UArts, D has been in student films and one paid outside film in Philly that will premier in film festivals this spring.
If you have anything else to ask about UArts, let me know! You can also search on the MT board for some informative threads about UArts.
@theatrelifemomma, there are several of us on this board on PH at Texas State who have heard nothing. Until people start making decisions and the dominoes start falling, we may not hear anything. It would be nice to get some updated information from them, but I think many people (like us!) are waiting on financials and school visits to make final decisions.
Taking this comment back to yesterday morningā¦
@Work64 My D declined UArts, Muhlenberg, The New School and Hartt.
Fiddler was outstanding - and while most kids were crying and carrying on my kids is like - āOk, whatās next?ā She is ready - I am not.