@LuvsLabs My D is accepted at Marymount and, depending on the rest of her results, won’t be attending. Hopefully you’ll see some movement off the WL after next week! Best wishes!
Hugs to you and your D @LuvsLabs
@LuvsLabs hope your daughter has a phenomenal year wherever she chooses to go. We are still waiting to hear back from three more but we are looking ahead to her options be it BA, BFA or non performing college choices. She is getting super excited even though she doesn’t know which direction she’ll take. Can’t wait to get off this crazy roller coaster ride!
@LuvsLabs I am so sorry about Syracuse. This process is tough and it takes a lot of character to see it through. I’m glad your daughter still has some great choices including Muhlenberg!
My daughter was recently told that she should give up on all MT reach schools because she’s not a trained dancer. Thoughts?
@type1mom by no means! Many of the tippy top MT reach schools do not have dance calls. CMU and Ithaca will tell you they can train MT dancers.
Hey! Anyone wondering when Boston Conservatory letters are released, I spoke face to face with a Sophomore MT major that works in admissions last night. He says that they should be sent out two days before April. So March 30th! Fingers crossed!
For future BFA and BA Theatre hopefuls, we are at the end of our journey and I wanted to share our thoughts. Daughter was a favorite in our high school’s theatre program and consistently has gotten leads since middle school. We were naive and thought she could do this without a coach. She decided on straight acting because she has no desire to go back east and thought an acting degree would serve her better in LA for film/television. Her strength, however, is her voice. Strong grades (4.14) and relatively strong test scores (29, 33 English, lower in math). ASB, Summer Intensives (Northwestern, University of Texas), tons of activities and theatre awards, commercial look.
She applied to 4 audition-based programs in California (not including LMU which is video audition): Chapman, Pepperdine, USC, UCLA. She also applied to the University of California system (other than UCSC, UCR and UCM). We did not go to Unifieds.
Results:
Chapman - did not pass prescreen for BFA, redirected to BA Theatre which she declined.
UCLA - no
USC - I think a no is coming today
Pepperdine - YES for BA, Theatre Arts (audition-based)
LMU - YES (video audition)
Other admits for BA’s in Theatre:
Cal Poly SLO
UC Davis
University of San Diego
TCU
Arizona (skipped BFA audition)
Waitlist:
UC Irvine
Now we are very confused because the best theatre programs she has been admitted to are very expensive (LMU and Pepperdine), 100 k more than UC Davis which ranks in top 10 of public schools in nation. Does she go to the good public school and get an MFA after, or go to Pepperdine and be completely broke?!?!? Advice appreciated!
My advice for others:
Apply to way more schools than you think you need
Get a coach (they know how to put together pre-screens and they give lists of their kids to the universities for consideration.)
Go to Unifieds.
Think outside the box. Consider smaller programs that have a good reputation, but aren’t necessarily on everyone’s radar (like USC and UCLA).
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! THANKS FOR EVERYONE"S SUPPORT ON CC.
I would suggest not coming out of school completely broke. Getting started in this business takes a good amount of start up money and starting off debt free is a HUGE bonus. UCSD is a great admit! If I were to help my daughter choose I would have her choose UCSD instead of UC Davis for its proximity to a big city and the Old Globe. She may come off the waitlist at UCI and that is another great choice.
We are waiting for a decision on Western Michigan Acting, has anyone heard yet? I read people have been hearing about MT, but haven’t heard much about the acting. This is the last one we are waiting for, the waiting is horrible!!!
UCSD is a great choice. It is a great school academically and is also a great theater program. It has a lot of professional opportunities with the Globe Theater. It is also in San Diego (beautiful). Also, price is a huge factor. Don’t go into huge debt if you can avoid it.
@chirodoc18 still waiting for Acting as well. Have heard nothing except a couple kids on The Company page who received calls mid-week last week. No word on wait list either. This is the last one we are waiting on as well.
@chirodoc18, some people received phone calls last week (acting). However, I am not sure whether or not everyone had been notified at this point. We are still waiting to hear from MT.
I agree that UCSD is a great choice and she would have tons of theatre opportunities, aside from the money issue, which is also huge. I would personally advise that. And don’t forget San Diego itself has many opportunities outside the college, such as the Globe Theatre, as @lastof4 points out, as well as casting agency workshop classes, etc.
By the way at this stage, I wouldn’t worry about whether or not to get an MFA–that is a long time from now (most people don’t do this immediately upon graduation anyway) and her goals and needs may well change by the time she’d do that anyway.
my D is deciding on attending a Canadian School, Mcgill. Does anyone have any experience for a US student attending here? Good? Bad?
I echo the support for UCSD. My D has a friend who is graduating from the program this year. He is an amazingly talented young man and has really grown in the program. He is going on to get his MFA and is currently anxiously waiting on his audition results for those programs. Also, one of my D’s coaches through MTCA is an adjunct professor there and let me tell you she is amazing and also a steadily working professional with amazing contacts. So you can count on a top notch theatre education there. And of course San Diego is gorgeous!
My D received her acceptance to American today…so nice that they include a page with audition feedback!
@marg928 you have some great choices!!
There’s University of San Diego (USD) and University of California San Diego (UCSD). Which one did you mean @portalupdateplz?
@portalupdateplz I envy you having the in state tuition option! We live in NJ and my D really wanted California. She applied to eight schools there and has only been accepted to two of them (assuming it’s a no from USC). Because we’re OOS anyway, they all would have been over $50k per year. Right now it’s between LMU and CaLARTS for her.