<p>did ANYONE get accepted
am i only the only Minn/guthrie CCer??</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS!!!
THAT IS SO BLOODY AMAZING!!!</p>
<p>That was my top choice…and I was so upset when they rejected me, but I figure that was the way it was meant to be and it might not be my time yet…that is so cool, though, congratulations on beating the odds.</p>
<p>awww thank you!!! per chance do you know how many they accept, im wondering why the heck I cannot find anyone else who got in on here lol</p>
<p>They accept 20… and have a waitlist of 10-15 i believe…</p>
<p>India, Here’s a UNM/Guthire accepted students facebook page:</p>
<p>[University</a> of Minnesota B.F.A. Guthrie Acting Program Class of 2013 | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Facebook)</p>
<p>India, congrats on UMinn. It’s a great program. I haven’t seen many here on CC discussing it this year so that may be why you can’t find a fellow member who’s been accepted. Did you make contact with others whom you would have met at the callback weekend to see if they’ve been accepted? I don’t know anyone who was applying this year but in past years those who we’ve known who’ve attended have said that many are from Minnesota. </p>
<p>It’s a good area for theatre and a nice city. I have an actor friend who is currently there in rehearsals for a production at the Guthrie that opens later this month and she’s having a great time.</p>
<p>Congrats - it’s supposed to be a wonderful program, great training. Does anyone know what the academic bar is? Is it closer to the CMU (90% audition over grades) or the NYU model, where it’s at least 50/50 grades and audition?</p>
<p>It is somewhere in between. U of Minnesota/Guthrie’s program administrators make no secret of the fact that they consider liberal arts an important part of training actors. I am pretty sure it states that on the program website, in fact. So you do have to be accepted academically before you can be considered for the actor training program. (It doesn’t have to be in that order. During my D’s audition last year, Ken Washington asked her if she had already applied and been accepted and she was able to say yes.) I do know a kid who impressed the auditors at his audition but did not get in because his grades were really poor, so he did not get in.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need Harvard-quality grades to get into Minnesota, but you should have a decent GPA, good rigorous courses and decent SATs. Go to College Board and look up the average. That should help.</p>
<p>My middle son (not my actor/MT son) recently received wait list notification from U of Minnesota. In the letter, it stated that they had 33,000 applications for a freshman class of between 5000 and 6000.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son, AZKMom.</p>
<p>IndiaGurley, Congratulations on your Guthrie acceptance. My daughter had been wait-listed and then received a letter a few days ago with the rejection. She was so hoping to get in. It was really her 1st choice (after NU, which we knew was a serious stretch). Have you actually decided on Guthrie? I think you were also accepted to Fordham, right? If you aren’t attending Fordham, have you declined their offer? I know 3 girls on the Fordham acting W/L and any one of them would love to attend if spots open up. Of course, if you haven’t settled on Guthrie, then totally ignore this plea!! Again, best of luck at Guthrie (or wherever you finally choose)! You were accepted into some great programs. You should be very proud of your accomplishments.</p>
<p>i hate to say that I still have not made a decision for fordham or for minnesota just yet. I am waiting on fordhams fin aid and if it is not enough ill be attending minnesoita/guthrie in the fall. i hope those girls you know at fordham get off the waitlist! and thank you very much. i will know by friday where I am going and ill def post!</p>
<p>Wow, why is it taking Fordham so long to send out financial aid offers?</p>
<p>This is kind of a wild guess, but I am wondering whether colleges sometimes wait until relatively late in the game to make certain big need-related aid offers. </p>
<p>The reason I suspect this to be true is that there was a student who posted on the NYU/Tisch subforum - on the MT Forum - that he didn’t get his financial aid offer in his big purple acceptance packet from NYU. Then, a couple of weeks later, he posted that he had been offered a full ride to Tisch.</p>
<p>Another student said something similar about not getting her Tisch offer at the normal time. A couple of weeks later she was still on the fence. She had been offered a lot of money (but not quite a full ride) by BU and was waiting on NYU. (I don’t know what her ultimate outcome was.)</p>
<p>So maybe some of these schools wait until a number of their offers have been turned down, in order to be sure of having enough money in the pot to give really good awards to kids with high need??</p>
<p>well whoever got the ful ride to tisch i am SO JEALOUS that has been my dream school since i was 12. but no way could i go 150 grand in debt for nyu… alas i do have good choices and i hope that means good news for me for fordham since it is just about as expensive as nyu. but i do think this is a little ridic to make me wait this long for aid.</p>
<p>India, have you followed up with Fordham re: the f/a package? No student should still be without one on April 20 when you have to make a decision by May 1. I’d recommend you give them a call.</p>
<p>I have never heard of anyone getting a “full ride” to Tisch through NYU.</p>
<p>NMR, it was a young man with the screen name “Yasha.” He was very happy about what he described as a full ride. He got the same studio placement as my son, Stella Adler, so for a while I thought they might end up being classmates.</p>
<p>I suppose it would be possible to contact Yasha and ask him about it. :-)</p>
<p>NJTheatreMOM, here’s an article from yesterday’s NYT about BU financial aid that you might find interesting since your son will be attending.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/finaid-pappano-t.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/finaid-pappano-t.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper</a></p>
<p>As to ‘full rides’, everyone seems to have their own definition of same. I have never heard of anyone at Tisch receiving a true full-ride which is generally considered to include full tuition and room/board, in scholarships, grants and bursaries. In fact, I have heard from the Dean herself that this does not happen.</p>
<p>I have found when talking to students that they often say they got, (for instance) “$35K in scholarships” at NYU, etc. and it turns out that that $35K is not all in scholarships and grants (in other words, in stuff that does not have to be paid back) but is a combo of scholarships, grants, work study and LOANS. They see that the bottom line total is the total cost of attending, but they don’t consider, at first glance, how much the loans add up to.</p>