<p>So great!! The program bumped way up my list after coming here. I’m really enjoying it! The classes I’ve taken have been super interesting.</p>
<p>Hello all - This is Mandy Feiler, Director of Admissions for Mason Gross. I was running the admissions meeting IsaacMT is referring to. I never once said that if students were not invited to the callback they are no longer considered. </p>
<p>I did say that we have over 600 students audition and if students are not invited to callbacks they most likely will not be admitted (which makes logical sense), but not being called back is not a guaranteed rejection. </p>
<p>Invitations to the callback weekend do not necessarily mean an applicant will or will not be accepted. It is all just part of the process. No final decisions have been made yet. We only guarantee that all students who have completed their application and audition will hear back no later than the first week of April. </p>
<p>I currently do not have ANY final decisions for acting as of this date. They keep everything confidential, even from me, until they make their final call on everyone. </p>
<p>I know it is hard to wait and everyone wants to “read the signs” and interpret what it means but take what you hear on these boards with a grain of salt and if you truly have a question call the theater department and ask them directly. Only receiving an official email from Rutgers Admissions will tell you your true admissions status. Not what someone says on collegeconfidential. </p>
<p>Thanks so much, and best of luck to you on all of your applications!
Mandy</p>
<p>Many thanks, Ms. Feiler, for this clarification. The Mason Gross process with callbacks does make things particularly confusing, but we all know it is always very complex to make these decisions.</p>
<p>Now that some decisions are coming in, it makes everybody that much more impatient for the rest!</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to post Mandy. I wish more school would do that. </p>
<p>Still, I have to say that Rutgers process is the strangest of all the school processes. If there were applicants that Rutgers was inclinded to accept without a call back, I would think the logical thing to do would be to extend the invitation prior to the call backs. If you are now evaluating call backs and initial applicants as part of the same pool, I don’t know how one could compare the two. </p>
<p>I’m not holding a lot of optomism that my daughter will get an acceptance having not been invited to call back. But what I can say is that Rutgers was on par with NCSA during this process but, having not invited her to call back, she’s pretty much stopped thinking about the school especially when she recently received a NCSA offer. The kids at the call backs all got all this additional exposure and understanding about the school. You had an opportunity to sell them. If Rutgers really had kids that they liked better than the ones they called back (and that is the only way one of them could ever get an offer over a kid called back), you are impacting your chances with them by having them think the school is not interested and not getting the opportunity to sell them on the school during the callback.</p>
<p>I’m not asking for a response to this. Just trying to give some feedback as to how it looks from a parent perspective.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your post. That was very considerate and helpful.</p>
<p>ActingDad, maybe I read her post wrong, but it sounded to me like if you were not called back MOST LIKELY you were not going to be accepted. They may leave that door open in case many do not accept their invitation and then they need to go further down their list. I do know of kids in past years who were accepted and declined.
I have no kid applying, so I have nothing to gain either way, I just hate seeing kids get dangled along. As an outsider, this is how it looks to me.</p>
<p>Congrats on your daughters other acceptances!</p>
<p>Yes, except for the fact that many kids last year at Rutgers were taken straight in without going through the call back. Also, if it is the back up as you describe, they should just say something like if they don’t get a complete class from the call back. Several kids reported emails in which they’ve received wait list notifications. Your concept of how this is working is what IsaacMT reported which is if you did not get a call back or an email notification of being on the wait list you are probably not being considered. If that really is the case (and you well may be right), Rutgers should just come out and say so. My post was based on last year and Mandy’s post which seems to suggest something different.</p>
<p>P.S. Thanks for the congrats.</p>
<p>I have found being a prospective student looking at schools to be difficult with Rutgers. Unless I have missed something and I have been on their website multiple times and emailed and called, there is only one day to visit the theatre department within the past few months. It is next month on a Thursday. We are able to go that day but if we couldn’t I was told via email there are no other dates on the calendar. I feel like there is going to be a very big crowd and it will be hard to get our questions answered.
I can’t help comparing this to the options we have had in visiting other schools. My husband even said “forget them then; they’re not reasonable.” But I know Rutgers has a great program and I want to learn more about it.
I don’t envy any of these schools dealing with all the touring students and auditions but there does need to be a streamlined process for both prospective students and auditioning students that is clearly articulated and understood by all.</p>
<p>Well just checked the email and Rutgers sent out my D’s rejection notice. Not that she expected to get in beings she didn’t get a call back or wait listed. She is definitely ok with not getting in because they don’t do Musical Theatre which is really the type of program she was looking for. Still waiting on the schools she REALLY wants to go to. UGH!! I can’t stand the waiting! lol</p>
<p>We received an email with the announcement that the Rutgers decisions were posted. As expected, a ‘no’ for S, but he’s okay with that. Still waiting on our ‘big one’!</p>
<p>S received his rejection email from Mason Gross today too. Onward we go to await the other five schools. Hang in there, everyone. :)</p>
<p>Sending hugs to the ones who got “no’s…”</p>
<p>An expected “no” from Rutgers today, via email. The good news is that is the first audition school my D has heard from, so things are FINALLY starting to move along. I think Friday will be a big notification day.</p>
<p>^^Skewlcounselor, for some reason, when I read your post all I could think of was the first labor pains…no fun, but as you put it, “things are finally starting to move along,” and there’ll be something good popping out at the end! </p>
<p>…sorry for the weird analogy…I think this process has messed with my brain! :D</p>
<p>I am laughing, Times3!! Thanks for the visual!!!</p>
<p>Times: Childbirth was MUCH easier than this process!</p>
<p>A lot shorter too… :)</p>
<p>Same rejection email. BookOWL – sounds like our kids appeal to the same schools. Lets hope is true for the “big one” as well.</p>
<p>Times3—more like kidney stones for me!</p>
<p>OddDad, I’m pretty sure your suffering went on a lot longer than any childbirth…OUCH! On the positive side, look at how your daughter has blossomed in this process. Talk about grace under pressure! We are positive that she’s going to land someplace that makes her happy, and she’s learned so much from the journey. Too bad it’s so rough on the parents, though; I think I was plenty mature before this and really didn’t need anything to help me grow older and grayer! :P</p>