<p>Congrats to all of you who have so many wonderful schools to decide between! The accepted list is overwhelming! However, it will definitely fulfill the dreams of some of those many kids on waitlists if you have some schools on the bottom of your accepted priority lists that you just know you will not attend and can let them know quickly. As soon as you let them know you will not be accepting their invitations, they can invite others, and the dominoes will start to fall, opening the way for other students who were not so fortunate as you. For you on waitlists, as I've said before, do not be surprised if you get an admittance as late as June. Just make sure you have a deposit down somewhere else by May 1 so you have a program waiting for you!</p>
<p>Lots of discussion for you here Christie2</p>
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<p>Thanks, AdaQuince, I knew it was somewhere, but ran out of patience looking for it, and wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention again. Some kids have been accepted to so many schools (Good for them!!!) that I have to think that they must be ready to let some go:-)</p>
<p>My son is sitting down tonight to send some emails–he has definitely made his choice. Glad you posted this reminder!</p>
<p>^^^
Times3, I am bummed our kids will not be together, but thrilled for your son that he will be attending his dream school! </p>
<p>We will inform schools ASAP…but we still need to hear from six. So here’s a plug for those schools to get us answers!</p>
<p>Me too, Monkey13…was hoping to meet your daughter! He loved Ithaca and was so excited to be admitted. We’ll enjoy reading about your daughter’s visit. Hope the sun comes out for you while you’re there! :)</p>
<p>Yep, we are still waiting for 5 and have only received full financial info from one.</p>
<p>AdaQuince, you guys are going to have to take a year off just to sift through all the acceptances! :)</p>
<p>My son received word from his top choice several weeks ago, and since we knew he was going to go there no matter what else would come in, within days he declined all the offers he had already received and withdrew from consideration at the 5 or so schools he was still waiting on. I know some people are waiting to weigh options if they’re not sure, and also to consider financial aid/scholarships - but frankly at least one of the schools he was waiting for was even more expensive (and less likely to give $)…and his mind was made up. It seemed like the fair thing to do, rather than waiting a few weeks till everything came back.</p>
<p>Times3, I feel like taking a year off any ole way! But, yes, we have a lot of work to do!</p>
<p>We’ll do our best but my D has two shes waiting on, two she has acceptances from, and she has some scholarship offers we’re waiting on to see what her financial packages will be.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone wants people to rush through their decision process, especially when there are pieces missing. But for those kids who have many offers (some have over 5, some as many as 9), we are asking that when you eliminate a school, to notify them right away. In many cases, there are schools people have offers on, or wait list status on, that they know they will not attend. Please inform the school so the chain reaction can begin.</p>
<p>Thanks MTmama2013!</p>
<p>A student might have 5-9 on the table, but without financial info available, none of them are eliminated. This could be the deciding factor. As stated in an earlier post, it is not a one to one correlation that if a school is notified of a non-acceptance, they jump to their wait list. Most schools, over-extend their offers to yield their target class-size and may not ever go to a wait list. There are some who know now, exactly what they want, but I would not anticipate much movement off of a wait list until the tail end of May/early June.</p>
<p>As AdaQuince stated, that is the complete boat we are in. Getting into a good school was simply the first step, affording it will be the deciding factor. We did just email one accepted school though to decline the offer as received the financial aid packet which would prevent any possibility of my son’s attendance there. We are working middle class with three kids in college (at the time having three kids close in age didn’t seem such a bad idea!).
We knew it would come down to this and letting one go is OK as we continue to balance out the costs of the remaining ones as the financial aid packets comes in. Perhaps his declining the offer will result in someone coming off the waitlist perhaps it will not but we do plan to decline offers as soon as we know that it is not going to work financially.</p>
<p>What about the schools that admitted your kid academically but not for the theatre program. Do we need to let them know also? I kind of forgot about them! I know they aren’t the focus of this group but I just thought about that.</p>
<p>We are letting all schools where my D was accepted academically but not for theater that she will not be attending.</p>
<p>prntosome, definitely let those schools know asap as well. There are often people on academic wait lists as well. They would love to get the opportunity sooner rather than later!</p>
<p>Bumping…A parent on another thread said they just had a great shock. Texas State had rejected his son (not waitlisted), but they just got an Acceptance call due to all the dominoes falling. Remember to inform the programs you are not attending, as soon as you are SURE.</p>
<p>My S and his best friend just informed OCU that they will not be attending. S was just (bass-baritone) but best friend (girl/soprano) was VP and MT. Maybe that will open up something for someone. Fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Chiming in to agree with all prior posts. My D received several presidential scholarships at schools she only got into academically or just into the BA program and we let them know that she would not be attending. Not only would we hope that they would give her spot to a student that was waiting to get in, but we are hoping that they would re-allocate the scholarship money to a student that really wants to attend and needs some additional assistance. If you really want to attend a school, it never hurts to see if they can give more money if a student declines their scholarship!</p>