<p>Absolutely,</p>
<p>By getting a few auditions in early (Evansville & CCM), my son eliminated several including USC, CMU, SMU, & Depaul, which were all lower on his list. However, you have to get accepted to at least 1 school before you can start eliminiating. We flew to several schools, stayed in hotels, bought sweatshirts, went to plays, etc., etc., but I don't think we spent $10,000! Of course my son didn't have coaches, but we did spent a lot on CMU in the summer (best money spent).</p>
<p>My last audition was Feb. 18. And though we did fly to LA, OCU, and UNCO, I doubt we spent more than about $2000. Still a lot considering my parents made me pay for half! But well worth it. Now all I have to do is wait. Until April. Because Emerson seems to take a long time to decide.</p>
<p>Ahh I know how you feel, the wait is killing me now that it's getting close. I'm really hoping I get in to Northwestern now, but they don't start notifying until the beginning of April...!</p>
<p>isn't it great to be done...but suprisingly I am soo much more nervous now that the audition is done like before i thought about the school and getting in but not with the fear or anxiety that I have now...but that is probably because the decision is completley out of my hands. AHHH Scary!!! Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>I'm all done and the wait is also a killer for me. Everyone said this would be the worst time. They were right.</p>
<p>I guess I should be glad that my D has a senior project she needs to complete soon. The research paper is due the end of this month, and her tangible in May, with the oral presentation in June. Along with the three shows she is in at school, there's not much time to think about college acceptances. I, on the other hand, clearly have too much time on my hands, and can worry and obsess on a daily, and even an hourly basis!</p>
<p>haha...well i've been done since december 16th. early decision was one of the best decisions ive ever made. if you have other children (especially non mt kids, since ed is way more common there, the only ed school for mt i know of is nyu :)), id really advise considering it for your top choice. its making my second semester so much easier, and with so much less stress. as i look around and see that others are like, "o no, where am i going to go to college", i can sit back and go to dance classes and work on my senior 30 page research paper and presentation, and just be stress free. </p>
<p>crossing my fingers and praying that all of you get in to your top, or at least top 3, schools. </p>
<p>chris</p>
<p>It's definatelt tougher for the parents. The kids are too busy to worry about it
(as much). My son is in a local theatre production of "Drood, rehearsing for "Working" and doing his school play, along with a play festival he is producing for his humanities project. I get stressed just thinking about all of it.</p>
<p>Blah ... I did all four of mine in New York and got too nervous and bombed most of them. The only one I felt decent about was Tisch. I already got rejects from Evansville and SMU and probably won't get in anywhere. College of Charleston here I come unless I get lucky and Vassar accepts me.</p>
<p>I don't think I would say it's tougher for parents! Even if the kids are busy, it just adds a lot of stress, I don't know if being busy helps too much cause in a lot of cases it just makes things overwhelming. It's their lives, their hard work, and their possible disapointment, and that is a heafty burden, even if they try to pretend like it's not!</p>
<p>I guess that's why kids are different. My son is the calm one who kept telling us it will work out fine. We were the ones stressed. He likes being busy and has a great outlook. He is so different from many of the kids on CC that really were really stressed out during the process. But the difference between all of us is what makes life interesting. Some kids get overwhelmed, while others just can't get enough.</p>
<p>I don't think it's so much a matter of being "overwhelmed" as it is the fact that once auditions are over, what you're gonna to do the next four years of your life is in the hands of others for up to two months and you have no control over it at all. It looks like your son was very lucky to get some good acceptances very soon after auditions. I was also lucky enough to get a good one early on, so the stress has been somewhat off. Remember, however, that some of these kids finished their auditions at the Unifieds in early February. They are still waiting and many won't know anything until the end of this month or the beginning of next. In that situation, you can stay as busy as you want, but it's always gonna be in the back of your mind unless you're a budding young Zen Master. ;) It's tough! Then, even when they start coming in and you're lucky enough to have to choose between some good ones, making that choice can be pretty stressful. Everybody is suddenly gonna be an expert and start giving you conflicting advice on which way to go. Then there are others like me for whom money is definitely an object who'll have the stress of possibly having to take the best scholarship over the school they really want for fear of entering the profession in four years with a lot of debt. Also, this doesn't even begin to take into account the stress those who've only gotten rejections so far must be feeling.</p>
<p>I hear you, but I think the key is to go with your gut feeling and try not to listen to everybody else. It's your life and your decision. It sounds like you have a good outlook and I'm sure you'll do well no ,atter what happens.</p>
<p>As of todays BoCo audition- DONE!</p>
<p>And what a good feeling it is! It is scary though, to know there is nothing more I can do. Its just a waiting game now- and lets hope I win!</p>
<p>Done!! i finished yesterday with BoCo!!</p>
<p>I'll have been done a week ago tomorow. It was nice and I can tell how much less stress I have now by my complexion, which has returned to it's clear state for the first time in about 5 months! Of course, I got home from my last audition to find a rejection letter from CCM in the mailbox, which kind of made it hard to celebrate, but it's not like I didn't expect the decision, lol. Now is the waiting, the hard part!</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that BroadwayBound88, fingers crossed for better news ahead! ((hugs))</p>
<p>Thank you :)</p>