Has anyone heard anything yet?

<p>MyIthaca account just got updated and my audition moved from the “What we still need” section. Just thought it would be a good time to start this thread. I applied for Musical Theatre and my major of interest hasn’t changed. Auditioned at Chicago Unifieds. So now we wait!</p>

<p>We were at the last audition (on campus) last Saturday 2/25. Lee Byron said in the info session that his goal was to get all of his decisions (including anything from all earlier auditions) to admissions by today (Friday 3/2) and then after that, it would take whatever it takes for admissions to do their thing. He said up to two weeks. My D’s ithaca account still shows that she needs to audition as of this moment so you are ahead of the game in comparison to us.</p>

<p>Oh my! That makes me very anxious. I’m not sure I want to be ahead of the game in this situation, but thanks for the info. I guess people will start hearing from them soon. Has anyone heard of any acceptances so far, MT or Acting?</p>

<p>There are acceptances to both already. You can see them in IC Peers.</p>

<p>I was told by someone in the theatre department that if your intended major has changed on my.ithaca it does not necessarily mean that you were rejected. Typically that just means it was the last major option that was processed through your account. (i.e. if you interviewed for the theatre studies major after your audition for MT, then it may say that your intended major is theatre studies.) That’s just what I was told. :-)</p>

<p>Oh, thank you very much to both of you. My major is still listed as Musical Theatre so I guess I’ll have to play the waiting game for a week or two. I’m excited to hear from everyone getting their audition moved to the received pile. Let’s hope for the best!!!</p>

<p>I just checked my myithaca account and audition has been removed from the “what we still need” section as well. My major is still listed as MT. I auditioned at LA unifieds.</p>

<p>@MTcurly - same here. D’s “what we still need” section is now blank and major is still MT. Ithaca was last her last audition in Chicago, 2/9.</p>

<p>Interestingly, however, she was rejected for the Ithaca Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program this week - which is per timeline of the MLK program (Late February: Finalists notified). It was a long shot for her. And the last line of the message of the letter from the Director of Admission was: “The Committee has asked me to express . . . and their unanimous wish that you will become a student letter at whichever college you choose to attend”. Not sure if this is an indication of rejection, too, for MT - or just a generic message of rejection for the MKL program alone? Anyone similar dilema?</p>

<p>I don’t know of anyone who is in the same situation as you, sorry! My bet is that since it was a scholarship you had to apply for, they sent you a decision on that. I’m not an expert on scholarships or anything like that, so I think you should call the school to make sure. I wonder if most accounts have been updated by now? Looks like we’ll be hearing soon…</p>

<p>@icdramageeks. Since you are wondering, my D’s account still lists that she needs to audition as of this morning (Sat morning.) So no, not all accounts have been updated yet. However as I mentioned earlier, she auditioned at the very last IC audition date last Saturday 2/25. </p>

<p>But it seems from IC Peers that some people have been accepted since that date (looks like some were accepted yesterday but they don’t necessarily all look like MTs). I’m basing that on when the welcome to Ithaca congratulatory remarks gets entered by the school’s administrators. However, what you can’t tell is when these accepted students auditioned or interviewed if they are tech theatre and some of them appear to be.</p>

<p>@halflokum. Thanks for the update. Although with Ithaca it seems that when you audition is not a factor determining when you’ll hear. They do it quite randomly.</p>

<p>So I’m guessing the entire process will take about three weeks to finish. Not including waitlist of course. Isn’t the major of those accepted listed under their profile information?
I really didn’t mess around IC Peers to check that. Looks like starting next week, decisions will start being sent out.</p>

<p>The major is listed but you’d have to want to sort through each profile one at a time to see if any of the recently accepted students were MTs and that is more than I’m interested in doing. I just randomly looked at whoever was on the first page with a yellow stripe (means accepted) and saw some were newly accepted that happend to mention theatre arts… beyond that, I didn’t dig. I’m quite surprised it is even possible to know as much as one can by looking at the site.</p>

<p>At this point my guess is the timing of the hearing is less random than it was earlier where it appeared that the absolute yesses or nos where notified fairly quickly and the rest are waiting. Ithaca is now done with all of the auditions. It is simply a matter of the theatre department getting the list of who they want over to admissions. Once that list is provided, to admissions, the final decision of who gets an offer is made by admissions based on their criteria, not by the department. (That question was asked at the info session and that is what Lee Byron told the audience.)</p>

<p>Also, Lee Byron said that admissions should be done with what they need to do in about two weeks.</p>

<p>Hmm, I seem to remember people talking about this privacy issue some time ago. And my guess of three weeks was just based on the assumption that not everyone had their decision sent to the admissions office so they might take a little more. But things are moving along though. I find it unlikely that they are following a pattern of sending acceptances or rejections first, but what is your hypothesis?</p>

<p>My D auditioned in February and when the students left to warm up, I recall Lee Byron answering a question about response timing and he did say that there would be some immediate acceptances and rejections after most auditions, but that there would be many who would not hear anything for a while- that would mean he or she is still under consideration.</p>

<p>^^^I heard Lee say the same thing. However at the very last audition, he also said that his goal was to get ALL of his artistic acceptances including anything he was still holding on to from earlier auditions over to admissions by this past Friday, 3/2. Then he said it should take admissions about two weeks. So my comment that the timing being less random is referring to the fact that the end has been reached and if the theatre department achieved the 3/2 goal, you can’t read anything into the timing any longer because they are no longer sitting on anyone’s audition results. It’s just a function of how fast admissions does their thing and now they also have to be more careful to hit but not exceed their gross admit numbers. Maybe the “nos” will come fast now since they don’t do anything to the gross number but I’d expect the “yesses” to take a little more careful planning. But of course this is only speculation. I don’t really know anything about how they work.</p>

<p>Mine still hasn’t updated from “What we still need: Audition” yet and I auditioned on 2/3 in NYC.</p>

<p>@showgirlsmama. I understand that those who have not heard are still under consideration. However I don’t think the process is any less random now because as the school decides on a student, they send their decision to admissions who is in charge of updating the student’s myIthaca. So the reason to some statuses have changed and some not is just how fast the office operates this transition, if indeed the artistic decisions where already made.</p>

<p>@halfkokum. Do you believe the theatre department accepts a large contingent of people that would be academically denied? I think the job of admissions in this case is more of seeing if the student is truly eligible and giving him the proper financial aid. I would find it hard to believe if, say, half those accepted got cut academically. It is a very small margin, so the “yesses” and “nos” should still come randomly, at least in my point of view.</p>

<p>Hopefully we’ll see more people tomorrow who’s status has changed…</p>

<p>At the info session I attended, the question was asked very specifically of Lee Byron: “once you send over the list of candidates that you are interested in artistically, does admissions then decide who of your list to admit?” Answer from Lee: “yes”. Follow up clarification to the question also asked: “So is there any ranking among the list you send over, as in this person I REALLY want artistically and this other person less so?” Answer from Lee Byron: “No, the theatre department’s acceptance list is not ranked when it is handed over to admissions. The final decision once we send over who we want is made by admissions”</p>

<p>I know these questions were asked very clearly by someone sitting in the front row and Lee heard the question and knew what he was answering. </p>

<p>From that you can conclude that the theatre department does not have any knowledge of a candidates academic admissions standing during the audition process and is only looking at their artistic performance. To me, that means no matter where one enters the process your odds of being considered academically fit for IC admission are the same. It’s just as possible to nail your audition back in December and still be denied by admissions because of academics or other criteria as it would be to nail it in Feb and still be denied by admissions IF you don’t meet admissions criteria for admission. That was my take away anyway. Is it correct? I don’t know.</p>

<p>Halflokum’s post above is the way I understood the process as well. I don’t think the MT dept knows ahead of time if the people they choose are academically qualified. It seems as if that is the process at NYU as well.</p>

<p>Yes, and I agree with both of you! My only remark is that you really can’t predict what anything means when it comes to admissions, unless it’s as blatant as a decision letter. So there will be people who will be accepted in a rolling basis, those whose statuses already updated and those who did not. I think that without including those accepted in a rolling basis, they look at the students randomly and make their decisions as they go and release batches to admissions. That is supported by previous posts from past years where we see people getting accepted/rejected in all “waves”.</p>