Rejections: Class of 2007

<p>My daughter hasn't either and she's a freshman applicant so who knows?</p>

<p>it's freaking me out, frankly haha</p>

<p>got my rejection from syracuse, it had link to a very pretty scan of the rejection letter lol</p>

<p>on another note...
my boyfriend got his first rejection today: Syracuse.
i haven't heard yet....but i'm glad he found out first. i dont think ive ever seen anyone with a better attitude.
he was like, hey whatever...it wasn't meant to be. im meant to be somewhere else. he has a good clarity of thought.
so, yup. good luck everyone....</p>

<p>broadwaybaby, I'm going in with the same attitude at your boyfriend. Things always happen for a reason, and a good one at that. I just want everyone to know that they will end up where they were meant to be even if at first it did not seem like the right choice. All these schools have wonderful programs and we will all get great training no matter where we go.</p>

<p>im glad for you babygiraffe! and glad to hear about u getting into ithaca....you will do well wherever you go, I'm sure.
are you waiting to hear from any other schools??
i myself still haven't heard a thing. although, syracuse is far away.
and i don't want to go there without him.</p>

<p>thanks! I got my rejections from umich and syracuse and i'm still waiting to hear from tisch, cmu, boco, brandeis, binghmaton, bu, emerson, and muhlenberg</p>

<p>It's really a crazy time of year at school too, all the letters are slowly trickling in! It seems like a lot of the science kids are going through similar things with the impossible programs they are applying to (everyone heard from MIT yesterday).</p>

<p>I'm rooting for you girls! You have good attitudes. Hang in there. All will be sorted out soon and you will move onto something good. It's an anxious time but you'll get through it, promise.</p>

<p>Thank you, it needed to be done.</p>

<p>Syracuse's email, also received here, reminded me of an old song by either Willie Nelson or Waylon Jennings:</p>

<p>Bad news travels like wildfire
Good news travels slow
People call me 'Wildfire'
Everywhere I go,
'cause I'm bad news
everywhere I go..."</p>

<p>At least there will be no roller-coasters at the mailbox when they send the hardcopy!</p>

<p>S is moving on in his mind, and considering everything else that's possible. </p>

<p>Wally, I know you meant well and to warn others of a possible pitfall. Just a word between adults: kids on this thread have their nerves raw and feelings bruised. So, it'd have helped them to open your note with why you were posting, in clear words, "just hoping to help others avoid a possible misfortune..." and then tell your story. Can you see why that would have gone over a bit better? Please no need to reply; let the kids talk. I think your point was made and your follow-up post made your good intention crystal clear -- not to brag but to warn.</p>

<p>To the above posters --</p>

<p>You guys are awesome. Attitude is everything in life! You will be successful, no matter what happens this month! I am inspired.</p>

<p>I know it is not musical theatre per-se but I got rejected from my top choice Lawrence and subsequently their vocal dept :( :( I also got rejected from Muhlenberg.</p>

<p>Defyinggravity04, I am so sorry to hear that you had bad news today. Rejection is always tough. Keep your chin -- and your hopes! -- up.</p>

<p>I help out here at our High School theater program and theater kids just amaze me. They joke about living next to each on in their cardboard boxes on Broadway and just have this passion for performing. Kids be grateful you have this passion. It is because of this love of what you do that makes you so phenomonal, and because of this YOU WILL SUCCEED. I am on this forum as I have a son who loves theater . He is the only one at age 18 (of all of my children) who knew what he wanted to do with his life. This is what makes you all so special!! God Bless you all.</p>

<p>Right now there are so many assuming the worst or being driven to distraction because they have not heard from their schools of choice while others have heard from those same schools. Consider the following. Today, my daughter was fortunate to receive an acceptance. It was from a school that she had auditioned at on January 20. Others who had auditioned there 3 weeks later received acceptances almost 2 weeks earlier. They received phone calls, she did not. They received emails during the day, hers came in this evening. At her audition, during her first song, she heard an auditor say "she doesn't have it" which shook her for the rest of the audition. My daughter thought she had blown her audition based on what she had heard. </p>

<p>Don't assume the worst because you haven't heard yet. Just because you are not falling into the pattern others are experiencing doesn't mean the worst. Don't beat yourselves up second guessing your auditions and how the auditors perceived you. Hang in there, good news could come when you least expect it, as it did for my daughter.</p>

<p>MichaelNKat-
Congratulations to your daughter! Maybe "she doesn't have it" was referring to tone deafness or lack of talent! lol</p>

<p>Thanks, Michael.
Your point is well taken. We have still not heard from one of my D's top choices and we were really getting worried. Today at school she shared her anxiety with the other four other kids from her class who had auditioned the same day she did. All of them told her that they had received rejection letters three weeks ago. We're taking this as a good sign and are keeping hopes up. I'm so happy for your D and she's very lucky to have the strong support and guidance of you and your wife. Are they back from London? </p>

<p>K</p>

<p>MichaelNKat...thank you so much for sharing your D's story. Again, many congratulations on her happy news. It is important for applicants to observe that you can analyze your audition to death and you can analyze the assumed pattern of admissions notifications (at schools that do not all notify on one date) and things do not always end as you assume they will. It really isn't over until you have your letter in hand (or online)!! Even then, it isn't all over if you are rejected, of course, because there are always solutions. But in any case, very happy for your daughter on her wonderful news. </p>

<p>Ya know, I witnessed a similar thing this past fall with a client. This person applied ED to Tisch. She kept thinking she wouldn't get in, etc. She submitted 13 apps and put her heart and soul into them. But she always wanted to go to Tisch. Tisch doesn't seem to mail all the letters out on the same day, which they say has NO pattern or rhyme or reason as to which batch your letter is in. However, I had observed for a few years, that the acceptances seemed to all go out first (I am NOT saying this is true but only a pattern I kept seeing from people I knew and/or read about). So, a bunch of people got their ED decision and those people were all admitted and I hadn't heard of any rejections. I didn't want to admit to my client the pattern I had seen in the past because it is not a FACT and just waited it out. She had not received a letter. I was beginning to think to myself that she wasn't admitted. However, she knows a lot about Tisch and knew many who applied ED and indeed, friends of hers who had already heard, were admitted. She heard of no rejections at that point. She still had not heard for a few days. At that point, she assumed she was rejected and started to move on psychologically and was excited about her other apps. I mean she was THAT sure she was not in. She even told ME of the pattern of the letter mailing in the past that I already had seen on my own but never mentioned. Lo and behold, she receives her letter a few days past others who were accepted and she was accepted! Well it was an even bigger surprise because at that point, she had resigned herself to being rejected since she had no letter and had only heard of acceptances being received earlier that week. So, all this analyzing and observing patterns did not apply as her letter came days later and was an acceptance. So, do not assume anything until you have your decision in hand. </p>

<p>Susan</p>

<p>PS....on a different note....it is cool as the daddy that you got to tell your D of her acceptance over the phone. My daughter's daddy got to do the same with two of her acceptances including her first choice one. He was the bearer of the good news. Must have been an exciting call you placed!</p>

<p>Thanks for the kind thoughts. And no, she's not back yet. I called her to tell her only to discover that she was at a pub with her friend from school and 2 British guys her friend's family knows. I told her, she shrieked, and one of the guys yelled to the bartender for a round of drinks. Now I'M the one with the anxiety!!!</p>

<p>Thank you also for your good wishes. It really did feel good to be able to tell her. I reached my wife first and swore her to secrecy until I was able to reach my daughter by international cell phone. Ya gotta love modern technology!</p>