No from Montclair. But on the positive side she is so excited about her visit to LIU Post. Hearing great things about that program and location is perfect. Even though we live on Gulf Coast husband grew up in NY and we have lots of family near. My mother -in -law actually went there when it was known as CW Post. We leave in 3 weeks
Enjoy your visit winnieroot. It’s a beautiful campus. We visited last year and my daughter had lunch with a MT student and sat in on a couple of classes.
@4thtime and @addicted2MT , those are fabulous posts. Thank you! @addicted2MT , I never thought about that before (all directors wanting to work with D again as they have and also always being very complimentary of not just her talent but her work ethic and character), but I think you’re absolutely right! Great perspectives, both of you!
all these No’s from Belmont today… you all are making me NOT want to go home and check the d@mn mailbox.
(…maybe i’ll wait a couple days till I see a large envelope sticking out, then I’ll get the mail.)
@pghmusician: now I really feel bad saying this, no from Belmont today.
:-L
where’s the ‘not-helpful’ button?
If I want to LOL, I look for posts by @pghmusician ! Thanks for today’s chuckle…
Ok this may not go over very well, but I do feel compelled to say it.
I want people to really remember that colleges are building a “class” when they are choosing whom to admit, and the specific “type” they need may play a huge part in casting each year.
I read so many posts stating that even though one school didn’t think their child was fabulous (thus the rejections),so many other people did so people don’t understand why the child was denied.
Let’s look at it this way - there were approximately 200 applicants with the same type as your child (tall, leggy, blond, legit, above average dancer, etc). Their program already has, let’s say 10 of that particular type and they’re looking to add another two. So out of those two hundred, only two can ultimately be admitted. You child was fabulous, but so were 15 others, all of which were slightly better at something than was your child. (Which also means that she was better than 184 of them). So out of 200, your child was in the top 10%! Alas, she got denied (or redirected). Doesn’t mean that the school didn’t recognize her extraordinary talent, just means that there were quite a few others that wowed them a little more (or just differently) and there’s only room for a small amount of her type.
This, I believe is also true with regular academic admissions. There are thousands of kids with perfect GPAs and excellent SAT scores (and ECs, etc). Just because your child wasn’t admitted to HYPS, doesn’t mean the school didn’t think your child wasn’t “good enough”, just that another child with similar (and not even necessarily “better”) stats was a better fit for what the school needed/wanted that particular year. Your child may have been in the top 5% of applicants, but the school could only admit the top 2% with your child’s particular qualifications. Still fabulous though!!
It’s a crapshoot we all know that…doesn’t help when it’s you being rejected, redirected or denied… Two more weeks of Hell and then you will have some nice acceptances to choose from. Hang in there
Sorry @pghmusician - We Belmont redirects can wallow together. Although I think I’m at a point right now that just getting any news is a relief.
Oh, @exitstageleft , I think most of us on CC know this; and thus, agree with you. However, as parents we use this particular thread to vent about rejections. It is the one place where it is OK to do so as everywhere else we have to be strong and wear our masks of contentment. In venting, we say things we just want off our chest to a sympathetic audience. It is an emotional reaction, a release. In the moment that a parent sees a kid sad when they open yet another rejection, it is personal. Reason goes out the window for that moment and the protective mama bear instincts take over. That does not mean that intellectually we don’t know, and agree with the whole “type” & “numbers” game. It is just that most people outside of CC just don’t get what we are going through. My D has a happy choice, finally, but I still pray for the S’s & D’s of others on this site. The post about the mom hugging the D in bed while she cried herself to sleep had me (1st) crying, and then praying. So, I say, Post Away your frustrations (using appropriate language, of course 
) , vent, cry, whine, & complain away here. We will be here with eHugs, donuts, peanut butter eggs, margaritas, PM messages, suggestions for schools that are still auditioning, and much, much more…
I agree with @exitstageleft and @bisouu – it’s one big lottery. All these kids are talented or they wouldn’t have gotten this far. I have noticed that each school’s “company” seems to have a similar mix of kids and I am sure that is intentional. So, if they are looking for a certain physical type, or talent type (e.g., the school wants kids who dance a certain way) and your kid doesn’t have it. he or she won’t get in, and that’s that. And I agree 100% that this is hard to accept when you’re 17 or 18, you’ve worked your butt off, and this is what you want more than anything else in the world.
I am not sure that we as a group are unique with the degree of competitiveness, the apparent randomness of acceptance, and the heartbreak of multiple rejections. I have been involved for a long time with “interviewing” applicants at my college (Ivy League). Every year, I see kids with perfect scores, amazing grades, and extracurriculars out the ying-yang. Some get in; others don’t. Sometimes kids I think have slightly less “credentials” get in over the8ir seemingly more qualified peers. There is no rhyme or reason to it that I can see. These schools want what they want, and if I knew what it was, I’d quit my job and become the most successful admissions coach on the planet.
I think we also got a Belmont rejection today. (I posted in the other thread, D is out of town until tomorrow night so I can’t open it but it was a small envelope). I am thankful to have a place where I don’t have to put on my “happy face”
9 no’s , and a yes to her pseudo safety… Pretty sure she wants to just redirect herself if that ends up being her only one… 4 more to go… Dear thespian gods, please throw us a bone! This is awful…
Adding one to the list of schools to apply to if you’re currently in a panic: Catawba College in North Carolina. They have rolling admissions, and, at least in my experience, they were exceedingly generous with scholarship offers. There’s a BFA program, but you don’t declare BA or BFA until sophomore year.
I toured it prior to my DePaul acceptance, and it is a GORGEOUS little school. I have never encountered a friendlier, more welcoming faculty. It honestly felt like a family, and I can’t imagine anyone being unhappy there. Just another one to add to the mix, if anyone is interested!
@addicted2MT, I hear you! I certainly don’t want anyone to stifle their feelings through this process. I love the stage that CC has provided for all of us. I just feel that there are many people who feel that schools think their child isn’t good enough even though they know that they are! Those who have been here a while understand the mechanics of admissions but newer people may not understand the process.
Hang in there @pookiesunshine!! <3
Son just txted me “got a small envelope from Belmont” (me)"DON’T TOUCH IT! It was Jinxed! just leave it in there a couple days… maybe it’ll change into a big envelope. 
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And echo every word of @addicted2MT post. Took me 40 years to learn that sometimes a woman just wants me to listen. Not offer advice and try to rationalize why she’s feeling that way. I may use sarcasm and ‘attempted’-humor to deal, but its the same thing. Now stop the buzzkill and pass the donuts.
So sorry 
I didn’t mean to be a buzzkill. In my terrible way, I was trying to validate people’s feelings that their child is fabulous! I just didn’t want people to think that just because a school redirected them, doesn’t mean they didn’t think they had wonderful talent! Doesn’t mean you can’t be disappointed though.