<p>THANK YOU SOOZIE !!!!!! As you pointed out - they probably say we'll hear by April 15th to cover mailing time and Int'l applicants.(and to avoid having people call them on the phone bugging them) This is really a relief. I thought all this was going to be spread over a full month of waiting. I rather have it all come at once - the good, the bad, and the ugly. THANKS AGAIN for this insight to the way it really happens.</p>
<p>MomofAPrincess....you may also want to check to see if these particular schools notify only by snail mail or if they have an online notification of decisions as well. Some do but I don't know in the case of those three particular schools. When my older D applied to college four years ago, almost all of her schools notified applicants close to April 1 and so we found out pretty much all at one time within a few days of one another. Actually, a few had online notifications on their site at a particular time of day. I recall this quite vividly. I recall that three schools were going to post decisions on the same day at 5 PM. On that particular day, I was tied to driving younger D to and from dance classes (which for us is 25 miles away and so I must wait at the studio). I wasn't going to be home at 5 but would be in the car as older D learned of those three decisions. Cell phones do not work on the drive or in our town and so I knew she was finding out, including two of her favorite schools, but had to wait until I walked in the tour to hear what happened. It was a very joyous moment because she got into one of her favorites (where she ended up in fact) and into another top school and rejected after a deferral at another favorite. The rejection didn't really matter because she was receiving acceptances at the same time! My younger D who applied to BFA programs heard from a few sooner than the others but many of her schools notified around April 1 or a little before and so we just waited that out. </p>
<p>I realize that people have been posting results here on the MT forum for a while, but actually there are whole bunch of schools and programs that do not send out any of their decisions until very late in March or on April 1 and so basically, I see this period as a waiting period and holding pattern and just a time to focus on something else until the decisions roll in almost all at once. </p>
<p>Just to give some perspective, when my daughter applied to BFA programs, she did 8 auditions and one week following her final audition, she was in a very serious car accident that landed her in intensive care as well as eventual surgery and ten days in the hospital and another ten days in a hospital bed in our living room and so at that point, it was about survival of a much bigger nature. She was receiving her acceptances in the hospital and everything. So, things could be a lot worse than merely having to wait out decisions. You guys will all survive! It is not that much longer. I have a child awaiting grad school decisions which all start to come out beginning in about another week for her. We just put it out of our minds as much as possible during this waiting period. Things usually do work out for every kid in one way or another....keep the faith.</p>
<p>I hope your daughter is ok Soozie. At that point I would care less about college notices too. My daughter was in a car accident in January right before her first audition when she hit black ice one night. Luckily she was ok and there were no other cars involved. She called home crying - and worrying about the reaction to her car being ruined. I told her I could care less about the car - cars can be fixed. Within a week her friend hit ice and went into a brick wall - car totalled but friend ok. And also within a week another Senior Girl - a very promising dancer - hit ice and is now dead. I felt very fortunate and lucky before that happened - after it happened it really hit home exactly how fortunate I was. They will all live through this process and as long as they are alive, all is good.</p>
<p>Yes, it puts things in perspective VERY fast. We had just finished traveling to 8 auditions and thought we'd be in a nice holding pattern with college stuff and then this happened. My D was very very lucky to not be dead considering the nature of this accident. However, clinging to machines in intensive care is not anything I ever want to go through watching again for as long as I live and not knowing what would be and all that. Also, she is a dancer and had also fractured her hip and now has five metal screws in it. There were lots of scary moments during this experience and a major recovery of six months, just in time to go to college and also luckily having gotten to do all the auditions. She got accepted to NYU while hooked up to all sorts of stuff and on morphine in the hospital and cried for joy. It was the best medicine of all. Thankfully, she has made a full recovery and so the joy of getting into a dream school, along with other schools, was a happy experience at the right time but truthfully, just surviving was where it was at. However, now seeing her on stage, as I did this past weekend, and knowing what could have been (as it has turned out for others in the severity of the kind of crash she had) is chilling and makes one just feel very lucky to have a child who is living. The college acceptances and casting and other stuff is very exciting but in the end, survival is way bigger in the scheme of things. So, for all who wait out college decisions, yes, it is difficult but it really is not THAT big in the scheme of life. It feels big while immersed in it but it is rather small and things do have a way of working out. Try to keep perspective. I sure know that my perspective has been forever altered by this terrifying experience for my child. Try to enjoy this waiting period, as nervous and anxious as you may be. At least you are alive and kicking and not in terrible pain. Surviving the wait is not that bad.</p>
<p>OK--I just checked my S's my.ithaca account, and his "audition" was moved from the "still need" column to the "received" column on either 3/4 or 3/5. Anyone know how long it takes Admissions to review the file and send out letters?</p>
<p>Yay, mine was too :)</p>
<p>I'm not positive how long it should be. I called all of my schools to see about how long until they're shipped out, but I don't remember what Ithaca said</p>
<p>mine was moved to the received column too</p>
<p>I auditioned on tuesday february the 5th I believe and my audition hasn't been moved to the received column.</p>
<p>Someone posted over on the REJECTIONS thread that they received an Ithaca letter today. . .does that mean the letters have started coming? Should be some good news over here soon!</p>
<p>OK Singer. . .I guess the Admissions Office is SLOWLY going through all the info that's been passed along. . .</p>
<p>A good friend of mine got rejected today.</p>
<p>And, my audition has yet to be moved to "recieved", but I was one of the last auditioners of the last session of the last day.. so i am not surprised.</p>
<p>D got her rejection letter today.</p>
<p>I'm sorry Pharm. They seemed to have sent out several rejections. I'm curious - does anyone know approximately how long from the time the audition switched from the received list till the receipt of the letter?</p>
<p>I just spoke to the office about my S status saying that they were not in receipt of his audition even though he auditioned at LA Unifieds. She assured me that everything was in order. She then said that there were still many applications still being worked on and that the faculty were at a meeting and then spring break and that we should hear by the beginning of April. Oh well!</p>
<p>A boy who auditioned when my D did (NYC, Unifieds weekend) got his decline letter (won't use the R word) yesterday but we have not yet heard a peep.</p>
<p>My D gets the mail before I do, and there are days I would like to see flares or warning lights set off around my house as I pull up so I know how I should enter it.</p>
<p>"I would like to see flares or warning lights set off around my house as I pull up so I know how I should enter it."</p>
<p>Boy, I sure agree with that! </p>
<p>Friend of D got an acceptance yesterday. Don't know by what medium it showed up. </p>
<p>Has anyone else noted that decline letters (yep, that's better than the R word) tend to show up on Fridays or Saturdays? Mondays would be better....</p>
<p>Halley, the lovely admissions lady at BoCo, said they send notification by email after the office closes on Friday so they are not inundated by phone calls!</p>
<p>Should I be panicking that "Audition" still hasn't been sent into the received column? I just realized that maybe they never received my audition songs on CD. So I sent another copy, a better copy today.</p>
<p>Hi LizMT,
My D's audition is still on the "not received" side, and she auditioned on campus, so I don't think panic is needed at this point, (although tempting) From what I gather in reading other posts, it means either a decision has not been made by the theatre dept and therefore your file is not complete, or that the admissions committee is not finished with it.</p>
<p>I think it just takes Ithaca a little while to update the myIthaca accounts to reflect whether a kid has auditioned or not. At the IC info meeting, the chair of the theater dept says that after he and his gang make their decision, the file goes to the undergrad admissions office and the acceptances and such (see how positive I am being? :)) go out from there.</p>