<p>Well, we’re never really going to know how this works but I am guessing that admissions would accept whoever the theater department wants unless they are under the required academic bar. It’s not that high and if you’re below it you likely know that already. NYU is different. It’s 50-50. I’m still curious about the timing here though, there must be some method to the madness.</p>
<p>^^^ I think you are right flossy but somebody also has to be keeping track of the numbers especially now that they are at the end. They said they admit expecting a 50 % yield and specifically gave these numbers and said they split the genders in the performance program 1/2 and 1/2: (accept/expected yield):
MT (32/16)
Acting (40/20)
Design (40/20)
Theatre studies (50/25)</p>
<p>I think it is safe to assume that rolling acceptances and denials that are already known were simply absolute yes (by both admissions and artistic measure) and absolute no (by either artistic or admission measure) and everyone else is now either suspended in the same pool floating around waiting for an answer or an absolute yes or no that admissions hasn’t gotten around to informing yet. But at this late stage of the game it does not matter. The answers will probably all come out together. The only thing that matters is what the answer is.</p>
<p>Yikes, I would hate to think that admissions could bump off someone who artistically made it and is academically fine because of numbers.</p>
<p>@flossy. Doesn’t that happen all of the time? Any admissions cycle that has more qualified candidates than there are spots has to eventually decide who they want the most. Harvard cannot accept all of the legacies, or perfect 4.0 with perfect SAT students either. Eventually they have to decide who is in and who is out by some sort of measure. It’s well known that there are always more highly qualified (talented) students than the number of spots for any desirable program.</p>
<p>I should also say that different schools do it differently. Ithaca appears to ultimately let the decision be up to admissions (after they’ve said who they want artistically). BU seems to work that way too. U Mich does more of a pre-screen up front and then does more of a wrestling match between admissions and the artistic results and if it were a standoff, not sure who would win but I’d put my money on the artistic side if they see somebody they REALLY want, CMU seems to rely on the opinion of the artistic results for admissions, Northwestern doesn’t have an artistic review at all but it has a really tough academic/admissions cycle. NYU says they are 50/50 in the decision and has a certain academic threshold that must be met to even be in consideration but they let you audition whether you’ve met that qualification or not because the process doesn’t seem to screen for it first, some schools ask you to send a supplement directly to the theatre department that includes your GPA and SAT scores so they have them in front of them during the audition - and so on and so on.</p>
<p>The more I think about it, after everything is done with this year, this subject could be a useful summary thread for future applicants and not just an Ithaca discussion.</p>
<p>Just heard of an acceptance to the MT program!</p>
<p>How did they find out?</p>
<p>I don’t know yet. He mentioned a scholarship, so I’m assuming it was a letter, specially because they live close by. Does anyone knows if scholarships are mentioned in an online acceptance?</p>
<p>Daughter got her acceptance today in the mail - with a nice scholarship!</p>
<p>Has her status online been updated?</p>
<p>No - unless I’m not looking in the right place - under application checklist it just shows that everything is in</p>
<p>My daughter’s friend got a rejection last night. This is a friend who also attended their summer program this past summer. It’s also a person who embellished skills on their resume. I have always taught my daughter that lying on a resume will always come back and bite you. My daughter also had a friend who coped my daughter’s resume as far as my daughter’s dance training. The person who copied the classes is overweight and clearly NOT a dancer. She wanted to make her resume better. Geesh!</p>
<p>Well, if she attended their summer program they can clearly tell if she lied about her skills. What’s ironic is that Ithaca doesn’t even have a dance portion in the audition.</p>
<p>It seems that this year they sent their letters rather quickly instead of updating their online system. But it appears that they haven’t finished their decisions yet, because I do know of people who still have their auditions on the “What we still need” column.</p>
<p>According to last years post, I believe everyone should start hearing something by tomorrow and Monday. The school is on spring break starting tomorrow and won’t return until March 19th. Best Wishes and Good Luck to all.</p>
<p>Today I checked my “myithaca” and my audition moved over from “What we still need” and “What we Have”…but I still haven’t heard anything else. My major of interest is still Musical Theatre…when will I hear!!! Agh! I auditioned December 3rd!</p>
<p>My son too. Audition moved, area of interest still MT but nothing in the mail. He auditioned in February.</p>
<p>Same here. My audition moved at some point today to “What We Have Received” and it still says Major of Interest: H&S - Musical Theater, BFA. Hope we hear soon!</p>
<p>I’m guessing you will - my daughter got her letter a few days after her status changed.</p>
<p>@blueskies1108. Could you tell us when her status got updated? For information’s sake.</p>
<p>I was told that the status changes after the MT faculty has submitted their decision based on your audition. Then the office of admissions reviews your complete file to decide if you will be admitted to the school, taking into consideration the audition results. Letters are mailed to each individual after their file has been reviewed and a decision has been made. Thus, letters go out as soon as they can get to each file after all the information is in.</p>