D pursing BFA acting. Four rejections in a row and now we are waiting on:
Pace
NYU Tisch
Suny Purchase
The New School
Park point
Coastal Carolina
Savannah College of Art and Design
BAL everyone!
My D also auditioned to 11 schools and has had 4 rejections, but none of her remaining schools are the same as yours. (She’s also had a waitlist and 2 acceptances, although one was to an auditioned BA.)
Waiting for -
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Emerson College
Syracuse University
The wait is definitely tough!
Hoping everyone’s kid hears some news to make them shout with joy before much longer!
Keeping fingers crossed for you all <3
@bisouu Thank you! Just read your daughter’s journey you posted today. So happy to hear everything worked out for her and that she is thriving and happy!
@LuvsLabs Best wishes to your D! Excited see where everyone ends up.
We had some good news today about a master’s program…rooting for all of you! Hang in there.
@Jkellynh17 that’s awesome! Congratulations!
Thanks @WorkOfHeart17, now we have to figure out if we can pay for it after four years of college.
@WorkOfHeart17, I feel your pain! We are in the same boat. Did 8 auditions - 4 rejections, 2 acceptances and still waiting on 2 decisions. Those we are waiting on are from your list, too - Pace and NYU Tisch.
Plus, we are waiting on financial aid package info from the 2 acceptances (CCM and SCAD). That info probably won’t come until the end of this month. Being in limbo is SO hard!
Waiting on Texas State, Oklahoma City, James Madison. Hope we hear this week!
S auditioning for BFA Acting. 5 acceptances, 5 rejections, and still waiting on 3. Wishing we had done things slightly differently but we are lucky to have options.
@remartin67 that’s fantastic!
I seriously had to double check my list but I have one more school to hear back from.I am 100% sure of what their decision is. At this point a while back I would have thought that the hard part was over, but choosing a school and then waiting/finding out about scholarships and how you are suppose pay for it just seems so daunting and scary!
My daughter is going on Spring break this weekend, so if all of her outstanding schools could please let us know something by Friday that would be super 
ha! We have no idea where, what or how our Spring Break is going to go because we’ve just been waiting to hear something that might lead us to jump in the car and check out a school or revisit a couple of schools. Too bad she didn’t apply to a school in Florida. That could have made for a nice visit during Spring Break. Even if we knew something about the NY schools, we wouldn’t even attempt a visit with all the snow I’m reading about. How’s everyone holding up in the Northeast?
@WorkOfHeart17 The snow has stopped where we are in NJ (very near Montclair), but it is cold and we have about 15 inches of snow. There really was no driving safely most of today, but tomorrow should be typical NE winter driving. Be safe if you hit the road!
@remartin67, I’m curious what you would have done differently? I learn so much from reading these posts, thank you all for sharing. S has narrowed his list for applying next year, but I’m thinking there may be some switching that may occur once we dig into the details.
Pick safety schools that your child could definitely see themselves attending. Ours were not well chosen and we were scrambling late in the game. I would also suggest the audition at the safeties early so that hopefully they will have at least one yes before going into the heavy audition months. It would have been good to go into Unifieds with a yes we were excited about.
We did that and it felt great however I feel we put too many safeties and wish we would have put a couple more reach schools.
@DoinResearch - Initially we thought my S wanted to keep his foot in the door w MT (he has a very strong, well trained voice but he is a bass and we all know there aren’t that many bass parts in MT). So we applied at a few serious drama schools, and some schools where he could choose BFA Acting with a minor in MT. And then a few safeties. He didn’t get in the few extremely competitive drama schools we applied to but is in several of the schools we chose for their MT minors. Now it seems he really wants straight drama. So in the end, I wish we had applied to more straight drama schools. But that’s our fault for not figuring it out before application season.
Kids this age are a moving target. Don’t beat yourself up if they change during the process. This happened to us, too, and it really worked out okay. Best of luck to all of you.