<p>Go bisouu and D! (Pretty soon, you’ll be answering questions here, instead of asking them!)</p>
<p>No, first they have to go through the excruciating process of waiting and waiting and waiting. And hearing rumors. And waiting. And having an envelope come in the mail when D is not home and can not be reached. And holding it up to a flashlight to see what it says. And finding out it is just a reminder about something trivial. Then waiting some more. </p>
<p>Prodesse, don’t forget checking the online notification systems obsessively every five minutes, after which you may feel justified when a certain school posts their acceptances at ONE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING and you actually find it then!!</p>
<p>Oh Lordy, Prodesse and Times3, I think you are describing me in a few weeks!</p>
<p>Remember the early 90s movie “Wayne’s World”? Its tag line was “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl.” That about sums it up. And it’ll all be worth it, believe me! :)</p>
<p>So what shall we all do while we wait anxiously…</p>
<p>One thing you DON’T do is share your parental pathology with your kid. They have stresses enough. I was a complete lunatic for weeks during the “waiting for results” phase, but I managed to hide it from my son. He didn’t need to hear the rumors I was hearing on CC about subtle changes in web pages and what they might mean. He didn’t need to hear that his acting teacher’s other students had already heard from whatever school. Mostly I was embarrassed with myself…</p>
<p>Prodesse, I totally relate! My son is gifted with living in the moment. He is finished with auditions and not giving them another thought. Part of the reason I come on here is so that I get my crazy nervous energy out where he can’t see it. I also have a mantra that I say to myself when I feel my anxiety about this whole process get out of control: I have let go of the oars and I’ve surrendered to the care of a friendly universe. I pair this with an image of gently floating down a river in a nice little canoe, and it helps me relax. </p>
<p>^^Love it, itsthejourney. Great image and mantra. This waiting is pretty nerve-racking. My S still has two more auditions to go, and it’s almost easier focusing on the craziness of auditions rather than the crazy-making waiting! </p>
<p>Connections anything from UNCSA on your end? Still nothing here. I was thinking of waiting until Thursday and emailing Bill Poole and asking… or having D do it! Would really like to know that the “no’s” are already out there and D is still in the running. UNCSA is very high on her list, and with the winter we are having this year, it may be at the top of my list now too! :-)</p>
<p>Nothing here, dramamom0804. The waiting is very stressful! I try to focus on calming images and mostly do well, but all this snow doesn’t help–I am <em>sick</em> of it!!!</p>
<p>dramamom0804 and connections - are you waiting for acceptance notification for a specific audition date, or did UNCSA say when they would start notifications for all auditions? Son auditioned in Chicago, but I am aware your kids auditioned earlier in January.</p>
<p>We both auditioned on campus on the Jan 15/16 weekend. They said letters indicating UNCSA was “no longer interested” in the student would be sent in 2-3 weeks from that audition date. If you don’t get such a letter it means you are still in the running. If you get one you are cut. We are past 3 weeks now, so we are both wondering if anyone received a letter yet. It would tell us the letters are sent and we can feel that we aren’t cut and are still in the running.
But no, to answer your question we aren’t waiting for acceptance now. Even if you aren’t cut now, it doesn’t mean you are accepted. It means you’re still in the pool.</p>
<p>I really do understand how stressful the waiting is and Bill Poole is a lovely man, but I would advise all correspondence to come from your kids at this point. This goes for all the schools, actually.</p>
<p>Agree with you, photomom. It should definitely be the student making these calls or sending the emails, not the parents.</p>
<p>I do have to say that I got a slightly different impression. I thought they said they would try to send out letters saying if they were no longer interested—it would be a sort of tier 1. I didn’t understand them to say they’d definitely do it–instead, I thought they said they’d aim for that. They also made it clear that if you didn’t get this notification, it didn’t mean you were accepted. I thought they were extremely lovely; it was a very positive experience. I also agree with others and would recommend against parents calling or emailing. I don’t mean to contradict you, dramamom0804, only to bring up the possibility that they didn’t mean they’d definitely notify the students within 3 weeks, so I’d recommend against emailing. The waiting is very difficult, for sure!</p>
<p>Thank you for the clarification. Son and Dad were in Chicago and I had to remain home, so I had not heard any information about notification. I guess I just need to ask DH and son the right questions :)</p>
<p>Ok I’m done waiting…</p>
<p>my D has her audition at UNCSA on Sunday; so maybe they are just waiting until after they’ve had the last round of auditions before notifying.</p>
<p>I definitely felt like they were going to send a round of letters, and before all the auditions were over. And yes I understood not getting a letter didn’t mean you were accepted. But as my D would say…whatever! Whatever they said we still have a lot of waiting to do. 
No worries.
We just got dumped on with another foot of snow so that’s a distraction for now. The more it snows here the more I’m voting for UNCSA, as the only school D has on her list in a warmish climate!</p>