@elixin54 so sorry to hear your news. Not quite sure how to advise you since I don’t know your situation. Sending all my positive energy your way hoping for something good to happen. I am sure your parents only want the best for you and the discussions will happen once all the results are in. Hang in there.
“Peanut butter fills the cracks of the heart, you know:)” ( @mamaoffive )
…and chocolate soothes the soul.
Where would we be without it–and ice cream and donuts?
@elixin54, keep your chin up. Don’t base your chances for other schools on one school’s results. Also, I just read a fabulous article from playbill.com: Hey, Johnny! Theatrical Advice - Chasing Those Musical Theatre BFA Dreams.
@4461flmom Thank you for your kind words, I’m going to try to keep some hope towards the remaining decisions. Come this Tuesday, I’ll be talking with my college counselor (who has been helping me through the application process and everything) and he offered to talk with my parents if I wanted.
I know the news is probably hard for them too (since all us teenagers view parents as some sort of godly being when they’re also just human), so I think I can wait and see if I can figure something out myself in the meantime.
Again, thank you!
@myloves I’ll do my best! Hopefully the decisions from the other schools are more positive.
I checked out the article and I can relate to the asker on some level (since I have a passion for arts, but I’m also interested in Marketing research and business management). Thank you very much for your kind words
Sending warm thoughts @elixin54 - there are many paths to gaining MT skills and experience. Yours will go elsewhere besides UCSD. Perhaps your parents are afraid because they don’t know how to help you. Is there someone else in addition to the college counselor who can help you navigate this? Check out @Ninnynoddle’s thread on this page. Perhaps s/he can offer advice for options on the west coast.
have a great aunt who once said, “just a little chocolate to get you through the night.” Truer words have never been spoken. Good thoughts to everyone waiting and to all those in… My German friend, Haagan Daaz, is now calling my name
@mom4bwayboy
Thinking about it that way does help me wrap my head around the situation. The college counselor is actually part of a whole team of professionals (from the Reality Changers program that I got a scholarship with). I believe they also have professionals who are willing to mentor students in their area of expertise (I’ll ask around about those opportunities this Tuesday)
And I’ll look into the thread, thank you very much for the advice and warm thoughts! They’re very much appreciated
edit: Oops! For some reason, I might have given off the wrong impression, but I’m not thinking of majoring in Musical Theatre-- my main choice was Business Administration/Marketing
My daughter got rejected from her #1 choice back in December. She took it really hard. She is less than flexible about her other choices. She got accepted to two safeties , but one of them is not right for her ( out of state, no housing unless you count the limited dorms they share with another school )
She got wait listed this week at what we thought of as the best place she could be …that one was rough too because the news didn’t come via email….there was a message on her portal that said " If you haven’t received your letter yet, please contact admissions " her admissions rep was out of town so I made the call to the admissions department to be given that news verbally 
Thank goodness it was me and not her, although I was upset with that news.
A week from today, the news for her reach school ( and the only one left she really wants to attend ) will come out via email link to portal. Not too hopeful for that
A random school she applied to ( doesn’t have her major but she loves the city it is in ) will send letters this week .
She is working on a video this weekend to apply to a school that takes very few students in her major , plus another school that her teacher thinks she would easily be accepted into.
For the life of me, I didn’t anticipate being this late in the year and having no clue where she would be going.
It was sooo much easier with my older daughters.
This process had sucked the life out of me
Hoping for better news this week for your D @lje62. That’s a great description - it does suck the life out of you!
No from UMich here. (For directing, however – not MT. I’ve applied to some directing programs and others I’ve applied to acting.) What’s REALLY freaking me out is that it’s the only program I’ve heard from at all yet, and I’ve seen others mention acceptances/rejections from schools to which I’ve applied, like Rider and New School.
GIANT GROUP HUG I am so thankful for you all for sharing your stories and feelings here on CC. I have been asked by my D not to share her decisions until all is said and done, but suffice is to say we have had a rough couple of weeks. Wish we could fast forward to a month (or maybe two) from now when the path will be clearer, the emotions will have settled down and the kids will begin feeling excited about their journey. In the meantime, I will be humming/singing my own version of a popular Beatles song…“All You Need is ONE”!
@lje62 … I hear you on this being a life suck.
D’s sister applied early decision to Vanderbilt last year. She found out on December 19.
One and done.
Sigh.
I don’t anticipate D knowing where she’s headed for at least the next month. In the meantime, all of her friends have locked down their schools, housing assignments, roommates, have started making lists of dorm essentials from PB Teen … I think that’s the hardest part for her. She’s starting to feel left behind.
KaMaMom, exactly ! My girl has friends that are tops in the class and are faced with the grueling decisions about choosing Yale or UPenn…even one of her friends who was a slacker and barely got a 3.0 GPA is going to the school she really wanted .
My oldest and middle both got into their first choices ( Emerson and Northeastern ) , EA so we knew in December and had the rest of the year to breathe easy.
We should hopefully hear back from the two schools she JUST applied to in the next few weeks and hopefully will have time to visit before we get guests in early April for 10 days ( complete with teens who have never been to this country )
We had no idea when we said they could come that we would be in this situation right now !
Hate to sound like a stuck record but; many (probably MOST) of my high school students (seniors) do not know where they’re going yet! If all of your daughters’ friends know, they’re ahead of the wave.
Mine will be hearing back and then visiting schools well into April. Hope your girls get good news very soon and in the meantime can be reassured that they are NOT alone, although it may feel that way at times! <3
My D is currently working with a man who was redirected from a BFA MT to a BA acting at the school she attended (before she was there). He was not accepted to any MT programs. I was blown away when i heard his voice- he has a beautiful, amazing voice and is just riveting on stage. How could no one have recognized his talent when he first auditioned? He has appeared numerous times on Broadway and is quite successful. For those of you who are not seeing the results you were hoping for with auditions, do NOT give up. There are so many paths to success in this business!
Echoing Times3’s post #393. If your child’s friends (non-MT) already know where they are going to college next year, then they applied to certain types of schools that have notified by now…including state schools and some others. However, like Times3 implies, many schools do not notify until April 1 or the final week of March. This is true of some of the nation’s most selective colleges. Someone mentioned that their child’s friends are deciding between Penn and Yale. I do not see how that is possible, because those schools do not notify RD candidates until the final days of March. When my non-MT daughter applied to college, almost all of her schools notified in the final days of March or on April 1. We found out all of her results pretty much within a few days and surely didn’t know at this point on the calendar that year. The fact that so many of you are waiting to hear from MT colleges is not unusual. Several of the programs (some examples: NYU, CMU, BOCO, Emerson, Northwestern) notify everyone at one time and at the end of March or on April 1.
I think even if we “knew” how hard this process was going to be, you really have NO idea until you are going through it with your own child (kind of like having kids in the first place. . . ). Sending good thoughts to everyone that is going through this!!! I am so thankful for this forum, I feel like I’m not having to do this alone.
@MTmamabear that is so very true. This is a situation that is not fully describable. Mostly because it is an emotional process. My S has had a #1 love for 5 years. While he has other good acceptances, I imagine if he doesn’t get accepted it will feel like a broken heart. Everyone handles broken hearts differently. There is no standard to emotions and no true way to prepare.
And, I think all of us suffer a little bit from - well, that happened to her kid, but it’s not going to happen to mine. I think the openess this year about rejections will help those who come after. When it was only one or two people being open about being shut out it is easier to think it is a fluke, not a trend. Thanks for everyone who has been willing to share. Everyone has to make their own choice about that, especially being respectful of your child’s wishes, I am just glad the rejection part of this is coming out of the shadows. I agree with @MTmamabear when she says you don’t know how hard it is until you are going through it with your kid. I am sure it will all work out okay, the journey getting their is just tougher tha we imagined. Hang in there, all! Here’s to full mailboxes (all big envelopes), ringing phones and happy portals!
My D just got the email from Elon saying results come out tomorrow. She is not optimistic. Hoping it is just self preservation. Our mail still hasn’t come today I want to strangle the mailman. What has this process done to us?! My D now refers to this thread as my “Web Md” she is probably right! Sometimes I need to take a break! Nah, then there would be a shortage of vodka and peanut butter eggs! 