<p>Theater kids are special… they love life and radiate that in every way possible. It is one of the reasons my S wants to continue on this path… the people. I have had many people poo poo my S considering an acting career. I just chuckle inside and think… if you only knew… this is an amazing life!!! If only you were lucky enough to experience it… Wish I was younger:)</p>
<p>It’s been interesting reading all your comments about the video. I almost feel like an outsider eavesdropping … my D is in that video. Having gotten to know these kids pretty well this year, frankly they are a really nice group. Good luck to all of you. It is a nerve wracking time.</p>
<p>^Oh how funny! Well she is obviously quite talented (and good looking! 
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Congrats on her upcoming graduation!</p>
<p>Well if they haven’t called by 3:00 am, I’m going to bed!!!</p>
<p>I’m getting a kick out of this thread too, having a son who graduated from CMU in 2011. Although as his mom, I think he’s incredibly handsome, he didn’t have girls hanging all over him in high school or anything. If I were to be unbiased, I’d say he is good looking, but nothing extraordinary. He is tall, but a lot of his male classmates were not.
Anyway, good luck to all of you, no matter what your height.</p>
<p>woaaaa, gotta find the time to watch that video. Wow, this is a stressful time stressful thread but also a fun one while waiting for that call, best of luck to you all!</p>
<p>Aww, thanks everyone, you made me feel better. I guess there is definitely still a lot of change ahead. I think there was a back story rattling around in my subconscious from earlier this year when my son was told “your biggest problem is that you look too young” to which I responded in my head — Wait, don’t they all look young at this age?"</p>
<p>well, I had to go watch that video. I was kind of in a trance throughout. such diversity. so beautiful. snow and fun and friends.</p>
<p>to paraphrase Billy Crystal in “When Harry Met Sally”: I’ll have what they’re having.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>It’s interesting in watching that video that the group isn’t nearly as diverse as the class almost always was back in the year that my D was auditioning and then in the subsequent years while she was in college.</p>
<p>5boys- I couldn’t have said it better. Yes the glamour and model good looks are a plus- but we do this to make magic for a living. What other job let’s you step into a fantasy world and create imaginary characters then walk away with a check? Even if it is a skimpy pay rate, there’s a reason we do it anyway. CMU or no CMU, the work is what matters. Keep that in mind everyone.</p>
<p>While I’ve loved everything about CMU, I have to say that this extending out the calls rather than making them all in one night and confirming they’ve gone out creates way more stress than is necessary. </p>
<p>As I posted in the summer thread, my daugther already feels like CMU is her school and home after spending a summer there. So not getting a call feels like someone is taking away something she’s already identified with. The anxiety of this process has already caused her to miss quite a bit of school. Obviously, result 1 is to get a call today. But if that does not happen, I pray we at least find out that all the calls have been made so she can move on. </p>
<p>Boyfriend #2 (UNCSA) is just going to have a hard time emotionally comparing to Boyfriend #1 (CMU) until its clear Boyfriend #1 is not in the picture.</p>
<p>So true ActingDad for all of our D’s and S’s.<br>
sigh
and the truth is from the college’s end: the relationship status would be
“It’s Complicated!”</p>
<p>ActingDad, I’ll continue with your boyfriend analogy… CMU may be the more “popular” boyfriend, but do you really think it would be a better boyfriend to your daughter? I don’t.
I’m sure the training she would get at UNCSA is just as good as CMU. For whatever reason, there is a cache about going there, maybe it’s just because the odds are lower than most of the other “top” schools.
I have a friend that went there for drama ( yes she is Mom age!). She never got any real work at all and is now a teacher. There are no guarantees, even at CMU.</p>
<p>With CMU, maybe part of it is that it’s a well-known university. University of North Carolina’s main campus is reknowned as well, but outside of the arts world, nobody has heard of UNCSA. The rest of the non-arts world is mostly unaware of CMU having an arts conservatory at all, for that matter.</p>
<p>And that, prodesse, is what drives SO much of college admissions…(right into a ditch!) Yes, CMU is a great, great school, but the name recognition, like Harvard’s, is part of what we seek. As adults we know it has meaning but that so many other things mean more. But our kids, looking for recognition, for validation, want that name, to shore up their confidence and stop the folks 5boys mentions from looking down their noses. </p>
<p>That said, I hope you all get calls today!!</p>
<p>At least as it relates to my daugther, the difficulty of this has much less to do with the name recognition or the cache. It was her home for six weeks. She had the best six weeks of her life there. A very sharp contrast to her high school experience. She developed personal relationships with faculty there. She knows at least a dozen of the kids there from ones she met over the summer and ones she met during the sleeping back weekend. She has internalized this as her school. So not getting a call feels more like getting cut instead of just not getting in. </p>
<p>If she’d gone to UNCSA for the summer, I’m sure she’d probably feel that way about UNCSA!</p>
<p>I don’t have any doubt that UNCSA is a great fit for her. In some areas, it might even be a better fit. She might even in the end choose it over CMU after fully investigating both if she got the CMU call. But at least that would be her choice rather than having her “home” school make the decision for her. I’m sure every kid who goes to CMU over the summer does not make this kind of connection with the school but I do know she’s not alone as other of her friends from the summer are having some of the same issues.</p>
<p>You have outlined one of the downsides of attending a summer acting program on a college campus. Something to definitely consider for upcoming classes. I also was never a fan of CMU’s sleeping bag weekend and did not encourage my D to attend this fall (She pulled her CMU application anyway once she was accepted to Tisch early decision. She was looking for a program with more academics and in NYC.). I think the sleeping bag weekend should be part of the accepted students weekend. I think it’s cruel to create these attachments in young kids when they will have little choice in whether they will be attending the school. </p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>I learned with my DS12 not to do sleep overs at schools until you are accepted. It is just creates WAY more angst than is necessary. So far with DS14 he has no clear favorite and it is just SOOO much better that way.</p>
<p>Ugh – my daugther reports that someone on the Allied managed to reach someone in the drama department and found out that acting calls are resuming tomorrow. I sort of hesitated to post this based on the second hand nature but maybe it would at least let someone take a deep breath today. </p>
<p>How hard is it to sit down and make 12-14 phone calls? Dragging this out over several days is really unfair to the kids. While she did not apply to Emerson because she did not like the cut policy, I have to say that there method of just putting them all up on line at one time is a model I wish more schools could use. Or if you are going to make calls, do what Otterbein does and make them all in one night.</p>
<p>Do you guys know something that the rest of the world does not about the CMU calls? I have a friend whose daughter is also waiting for an admissions decision and she is not active in CC. Are you guys basing the idea that the calls are not over on the fact that nobody here is reporting that they got one (yet) or is it something more than that? I’m a bit puzzled myself why CMU would stretch it out over 3 days.</p>