<p>From what I understand, you may not get as good of finanial package off the waitlist because you would be enrolling so much later.</p>
<p>Actually, I already have my financial aid package. They send everyone on the waitlist their financial aid package also. Actually, my financial aid letter somehow got to my house before my priority waitlist letter! </p>
<p>Funny how the mail system works....</p>
<p>Millie_Chittick - Wow, that's great to hear. My son also got waitlisted at CMU and we have not received a financal package yet. Didn't know we would. I'll be watching the mailbox now.
What are your other choices if CMU doesn't work out?</p>
<p>is cmu all of your first choices or not?</p>
<p>Being a senior MT at CMU who was actuallly on the wait list, I know what all of you are going through!!! I wish you all the best of luck! While you are waiting, I want to let you know of a great opportunity to listen to some current CMU MTs. If you go to <a href="http://cmu.edu/cfa/drama/fusion%5B/url%5D">http://cmu.edu/cfa/drama/fusion</a> you can listen to a few tracks. They are all either junior or Senior MT students. The composer and lyricist of this music are also both current CMU students. Enjoy and again, good luck!</p>
<p>is it ok to submit the financial aid application after they make the final waitlist decisions in may...or will not submitting financial aid effect their decision on whether to admit you or not?</p>
<p>Elvis, I don't quite understand your question. I would imagine finanical aid applications had deadlines that had to be met and are past but do find out. FAFSA deadlines surely are past. Are you on the PRIORITY waitlist? Because if you are, then you had to sign a form that agreed to IF you were given an offer, you'd have to enroll with a deposit within 24 hours...that is a stipulation for being on the PRIORITY waitlist vs. the regular waitlist. I say this from experience as I have a D who was on the Priority Waitlist at CMU last year.</p>
<p>It isn't an issue with regard to whether they'd accept you or not depending if you applied for FA or not....but what IS an issue is that if they accept you off the waitlist, you'd have to be prepared to say yay or nay and you would not be able to do so if you did not have your financial aid package in your hands. I am also confused by your post because when my D was told about being on the Priority Waitlist, she also received her finanicial aid package/scholarships, etc. as that was needed by any student in such a status. The package was in our hands so that if she was given an offer, we could make an informed decision as to whether she'd attend. </p>
<p>Please do not rely on this message board for such an important question. If you are on the waitlist, you should have had a financial aid package in your hands by now. If you haven't even applied for financial aid, you would need to find out if it is not too late to file the forms. Please ask CMU these questions. Are you on the Priority Waitlist I assume?</p>
<p>PS....earlier you asked about if the FA packages are as good for those on the waitlist.....I think the package is the same as the student would have received if outright admitted because they use a need based formula. The package my D received, we felt was very good from CMU as a Priority Waitlist student.</p>
<p>Just an aside...my d's waitlist letter dated March 28th, Postmarked April 11th, arrived in our mailbox today, May 4th. Now how's that for efficiency!</p>
<p>Anyone else Priority Waitlist Drama? My d wants CMU soooooo much. Anyone turning down CMU drama?</p>
<p>The office of admissions said there are 4-5 people on the priority waitlist for Musical Theatre.</p>
<p>Are you waitlisted? My d is for Drama.</p>
<p>Yeah I'm priority waitlisted for Musical Theatre.</p>
<p>I'm priority waitlisted for musical theatre too.</p>
<p>Mphagan, Is your friend who got in for drama going? I'm looking for a ray of hope for my d.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure she is going... but best of luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>My d just received a letter from CMU stating she is one of the top 5 waitlisted out of 1000 people who auditioned. I don't know if that really made her feel better or not.</p>
<p>LocoMom, I don't know the chances of getting off the list, but the way my D took being on the Priority Waitlist for Drama at CMU was an affirmation. After that, she didn't give it too much thought and moved onto her other acceptances in hand. An affirmation is still a nice feeling. Selective programs cannot take all that are qualified. Clearly out of 1000 (my D's year, they mentioned 1200), there has to be more than 10 MT and 18 Drama candidates who may have the skills needed to get in but there simply isn't the space in the class. I think if you come close or make a waitlist, it is a sense of having what they are looking for if they have space available. That is, they ARE willing to take you into their program. That is something that is worth knowing, even if the waitlist isn't utilized or she doesn't get off it.</p>
<p>For my D, I'm glad she didn't get off it because her passion is MT and with MT offers in hand, it wasn't the best fit to go with the Drama program, even if it is a great drama program. So, one way to view the Priority Waitlist was an affirmation of acting talent and that can be a nice thing to receive too. In my D's case, she was quite shocked to get on the Priority Waitlist for Acting, not just because of the low odds, but because acting was the one of the three skill areas (voice and dance being the other two) that she had the least training in and we have no drama classes or lessons where we live or at school.</p>
<p>In my view, it's time now to look at the actual acceptances in hand and move on psychologically. The waitlists are a nice outcome and result too, even if not an admit. If they come through later, deal with it then, but in the meantime, don't count on it and start getting excited about the schools you know you can go to. Ya never know if the waitlist might happen but the odds are greater it won't but it could. My D's friend is a junior in the MT program at CMU and she got in off the waitlist. Anything IS possible. Better to not count on it, in my view. Getting this result should still be a GOOD feeling!</p>
<p>I posted a personal message to you, Soozie but your mailbox is full!</p>
<p>Frozen...yes, my PM box IS full and keeps filling up and I prefer emails. Send me an email instead, thanks. However, while I look forward to hearing from you, I am very backlogged on the NUMEROUS emails that forum members have been sending me. As I am simply volunteering, I can't keep up with them all. I try to volunteer many hours on the forum in an effort to reach out to many at one time. Helping with individual cases as a volunteer takes a lot of hours as well and right now, I have been inundated with email. I will try to reply to all but be patient as there are just so many volunteer hours in a day. I try to use my volunteer time ON the forum to give free advice, rather than with all the individual cases separately. I have to tend to my clients first on a frequent individualized basis through emails. I also have had a lot of travel and some more coming up which take me offline. So, just giving you a heads up that I can't respond to all the non-client emails in a timely way as I do with clients daily. </p>
<p>I did ask my niece when I saw her recently about your son (they are friends as you know, through theater in your state) and where he might be headed next year. So, drop me a note and I will try to eventually get to you once I dig out from all the other emails!</p>
<p>Good to hear from you, Soozie! I just talked to your niece and sister-in-law at West High's "Much Ado About Nothing" tonight. Our son is on the CMU waitlist but has also received an acceptance to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland this Fall for a three year BA degree and is one of five Americans to be accepted each year. We are hearing wonderful things about the program but have never visited Scotland or the school. He received a letter from CMU stating that he was one of the top 5 on the waitlist but required us to send in $600 for him to be placed on the priority list and state that it was his #1 choice. RSAMD is only $27,000 a year for three years and CMU is $55,000 for four years. The latter is not within our budget AT ALL. If a substantial financial package is awarded AFTER an acceptance, it might be a consideration but at this point he has decided to stay on the waitlist. He has had an AMAZING two years at Interlochen Arts Academy. He was cast as Frog in "A Year with Frog and Toad". The 12 member cast traveled to the Helen Mills Theatre in Manhattan for four shows and he was just cast as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", which will open May 10th on campus. If you have any insights, thoughts or ideas, please feel free to share.</p>