Question for Florida State No's - help!

College Majors Musical Theater Major
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One of my kids did not receive a phone call OR a letter regarding his audition for Florida State. He finally emailed today and received pretty immediately back a “no.” (These kids!! Don’t want to call!!) A few hours later, his portal changed to include an academic acceptance letter and his major had changed to BFA Music Theatre. Is this what your student saw? Wish we could upload graphics here, but it states:

Congratulations <name!></name!>

Application Details

Type: Freshman First Time In College
Term: Fall 2020
Major: Music Theatre (BFA)
Location: Tallahassee
EMPLID: xxxxxx (using placeholders here)

Is this what you saw also? Is this a mistake? I told him to call now but it’s too late in the day.

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Yes this is what we see on the FSU portal even after we received the mass email on 3/6 from @All4FSU

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@onette Please have your student call me- I’m happy to look into it.

That said, the student chooses their major when they apply to the University. The only way that changes is for the student themselves to change it to something else. Therefore, the academic decision is made by the Office of Admissions without consideration of major. Then, if the student is academically admitted but doesn’t get into the limited access program (Theatre, Music, Dance, Film) they still have the option to matriculate and change their major to something else. (We have many change to BA Theatre.) Admissions received around 65,000 applications this year, which accounts for some of the communication challenges.

They are a large operation, but we (theatre) are a much smaller one, so I encourage you to reach out if you have questions.

Michele

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@All4FSU - thank you! Then, likely the email he received in response to his request yesterday was correct. Most of the schools he applied to (Temple, Millikin) didn’t show “BFA Musical Theatre” until he was artistically accepted. So, it sounds like that goes there by default once he is academically accepted. I will have him call, but it sounds like your clarification is all he needs! Thank you!!! I think the odd part was that he didn’t hear one way or the other until he reached out. That made him wonder if there had been a communication problem!