<p>Oooops! Sorry! Hi CM08!</p>
<p>rejections
SUNY purchase
Point Park
U of Northern Co</p>
<p>So far rejections from:
Point Park
Adelphi
Ithaca</p>
<p>No news from Purchase yet. I auditioned on the 19th of February. That’s a good thing right?</p>
<p>Athena, I think it’s definitely safe to deduce that no news is good news at this point. A lot of these schools seem to operate along the same time frame.</p>
<p>Thanks! I was just extremely confused (and still am) because I didn’t get a callback. Only eight people received call backs at my audition. Hopefully I was at LEAST wait-listed. I WOULD NOT turn down an acceptance though!</p>
<p>AthenaL- I also think that it may be a good thing you havent heard from Purchase yet
I have two friends who heard but they were both rejected.</p>
<p>I hope it is good news! I’m getting my hopes up, but with my luck the rejection probably just got lost in the mail! lol Either way, I am excited to hear from them. Even if I don’t get into the BFA program I plan on attending the BA theatre performance major, and then re-auditioning for them and other BFA programs.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from TCU’s BFA Acting? I auditioned at Unifieds in Chicago (2/7), and got my school/BA acceptance shortly thereafter in the mail. Is this normal, with BFA notification arriving later? Or was that a “thanks for playing, try again after your freshman year”?</p>
<p>I auditioned for TCU last year and was openly accepted artistically on the spot took forever to get an admissions decision but the theatre department staff pushed so hard for me finally got full acceptance like April 1st. I would call the theatre department they are very helpful.</p>
<p>My S applied to TCU in November–was accepted to the University on December. Auditioned at Unifieds in Chicago. Still waiting to hear…</p>
<p>Just heard from Ithaca- didn’t make it in 
I called and they told me.</p>
<p>same here, D rejected from Ithaca today. Apparently when letters have already been mailed, they will tell you the decision over the phone.</p>
<p>Rejected from Coastal Carolina today via e-mail. I don’t let it worry me, as that was probably my poorest showing at Unifieds. I guess the rejections are just fuel to show that all these schools made very poor choices.</p>
<p>Hey, StrangeBro, you have always had a great attitude and a great sense of humor, but I’m going to be a mom here and remind you that some of the schools you are saying made “poor choices” are schools other kids here are very happy about going to. I know you don’t mean to be insulting.</p>
<p>I will agree with you that schools make mysterious and confusing choices, and that everything is really quite arbitrary. We all know that talented and successful people have been rejected from lots of things - schools, parts, jobs, etc. Another way to understand that the results now are no substantive judgment on anyone is that once you begin a program, the students may or may not be what they seemed at an audition, that how people grow is unpredictable and fluid, and the next four (or twenty) years will be plenty mysterious and confusing at times, too.</p>
<p>I’m not lecturing StrangeBro - I hope you know I’m just gently chiding you - but I do want all of these kids who do have at least one nice acceptance to know that in a few months you will not be thinking about the schools that reject you. You will be much more focused on the work you are doing, the challenges facing you, the colleagues you are working with - peer and faculty. This whole period will become very unreal and you’ll just be glad you are done with it.</p>
<p>For those of you who do not have one school yet to set your future on, I give you all of my best wishes. And for those of you who do find yourselves auditioning again next year, know that you will be a more mature, experienced applicant with new perspective. We’ve been reading stories here about some fantastic opportunities that some of our transfer/gap year students are having, that they never would have had otherwise. It’s a painful journey, but like so many, very worthwhile.</p>
<p>Just wanted to add, StrangeBro, that in the case of these auditioned BFA programs, the audition results are not entirely tied to your talent, skill, or promise, but rather to what “type” the program is seeking for their company of student actors. So, unlike almost any other sort of college program, they really are ruling out potential students based on their physical attributes. You might be a tall, handsome, leading-man type, but if they have enough of those in their company, you will not be selected even if you had a great audition. That unknown factor is what makes this process so stressful for everyone (and is why it’s a good idea to have non-auditioned back-ups.) Congrats on Chapman! You were smart to do an early audition. It makes the process so much less stressful.</p>
<p>I read StrangeBro’s comment differently. I don’t think he was talking about those schools as poor choices, but that the schools made a “poor choice” in rejecting him and that he was going to show them someday that they made a mistake by using rejection as, to quote him, a “fuel” for his own personal success.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to imply that StrangeBro is pompous; I took his comments as a lighthearted way of dusting himself off and finding a positive in a rejection.</p>
<p>I agree with SDonCC. That’s how I read it too.</p>
<p>I completely agree with SDonCC–I totally read StrangeBro’s comment as a way to vent, out of frustration, and to say that he would definitely show 'em one day. Which is fine. And I’m speaking as someone whose own D was just accepted into Coastal Carolina BFA acting, and who is absolutely thrilled by the program–I wasn’t a bit insulted, StrangeBro 
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<p>Please remember that all these programs accept based on type. Whatever their type is. We all know this rationally, but I’m not sure we really get just how MUCH it’s based on type. Each school has their own desires–they want to balance the company and/or have a look they prefer for whatever reason. This has NOTHING to do with talent at ALL. You can be the most talented 5’2 blond belter with curly hair and knockout tap dancer, but if they don’t want a 5’2" blond belter - for whatever reason - you will be rejected. </p>
<p>StrangeBro and others–persevere, believe in yourselves, ‘keep on swimming, swimming, swimming,’ as Finding Nemo puts it!</p>
<p>Just agreeing with those above, and saying a big congratulations to Hoveringmom’s D too! Coastal Carolina looked like such a GREAT program to us, (as did Chapman’s)! I’m so glad people are finding wonderful spots for themselves!</p>
<p>Congratulations, Hoveringmom!</p>