<p>I got letter today saying that I got wait listed and I’m wondering…</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many usually get in off the wait list? Is it hopeful that I got on the wait list, or do they usually not even get to it? Any info would be great. Thanks!</p>
<p>How quickly did you get a letter after the audition? Mine is the 17th</p>
<p>tinysinger-
I auditioned 12/6 and got my letter 1/10. At the audition they said they hoped to get all letters out before Christmas. Hopefully, they will tell you when to expect to hear from them on the 17th, and if not there is a Q and A session before the audition so it couldn't hurt to ask! Others I heard from (one who auditioned for MT and was suggested for the management program) received a call a few days after their audition. I suppose its all relative to when you audition...but I would say expect a letter within 4 weeks of your audition. My best friend found out 10 days after her audition that she was admitted. (this was last year, though) </p>
<p>Music<em>is</em>life-
Perhaps you were at the Dec 6 audition? If so, you are probably one of the only (if not the only) one on the waitlist thus far, which is a very good thing!! You should call admissions and ask if the wait list is weighted or not-I spoke to someone who was wait listed at CMU...their list is not weighted so during his campus visit he introduced himself to all of the teachers, dept. heads, etc--this ultimately led to his acceptance into the program. If it isn't, sending thank you letters to the auditors couldn't hurt, just to refresh their memories and keep you in their thoughts. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I just got in to BFA MT off of the waitlist today!!</p>
<p>congrats musicalstudent! 
that’s so exciting. out of curiousity, are you a boy or a girl?</p>
<p>congratulations musical student! my daughter will be in your freshman class and she’s very excited about going this fall after our wonderful visit last week. the freshman and sophomore students she met in class were so welcoming (and sooo talented!).</p>
<p>I’m a boy and as much as I hate to do it, I have to decline my admission. </p>
<p>Musical Theatre is my passion and it’s what I dream about doing, but I submitted my deposit at the University of Southern California for a BA in Theatre. I think that it’s just better (and smarter) for me in the grand scheme of things to get a BA at a really phenomenal school rather than a BFA in Musical Theatre from a Conservatory-esque school. I’ll still be a theatre major and get fantastic training, but I feel like UArts would be limiting. I only got into UArts out of the 11 BFAs I applied to, but it’s still major validation of my talents to get into something.</p>
<p>Am I crazy for passing this up?</p>
<p>musicalstudent-no i don’t think your crazy! congratulations on your exciting achievement…usc is an amazing school (i’m applying there next year) i’ve decided to do exactly what you are thinking of doing. to me, getting a ba in theatre and double majoring in something more sustainable(business, math…) seems to make more sense when you are paying so much money, and spending four years of your life working towards it. in the end, the directors don’t care what degree you have, so keep up your singing and dancing, and you’ll be fine. plus after four years and thousands of dollars, you’ll have better job prospects than those that only train for performing. that is my thought on that. good luck!!!(O:</p>
<p>Everyone needs to make their own choices based on their interests and future plans. However, I do not agree that having a BA in a more traditional major necessarily makes you more employable than having a BFA in MT. With very few exceptions, an undergrad BA degree does not educate you or train you for particular jobs or employment. That’s what a grad degree is all about. Moreover, there are many jobs outside of performing for which a person with a BFA in MT is as qualified and as attractive as an employee as someone with a BA. In addition, I know several students who received BFAs who thereafter pursued “academic” or professional graduate degrees including law school.</p>
<p>The real isssue is how you want to spend your time in college and what type of focus do you want your college educational experience to have. Putting aside certain “specialty” BAs that are designed to train or educate a student for certain specific employment, a BA student does not have a material advantage, if any, over a BFA Mt student when it comes to job opportunities in more conventional jobs.</p>
<p>I was not talking about strictly BA vs. BFA. I was talking about BA from a school like USC vs. a BFA from a school like UArts which is 95% arts (unless I’m completely misinformed).</p>
<p>I’m not making a generalization about all BFA programs vs. all BA programs and the only reason that I would say that a BA would be more marketable is because it gives you the opportunity to double major in something else. </p>
<p>MichaelNKat - you’re not making this decision any easier by telling me that a BFA is just as marketable as a BA in areas other than performance. It just makes me want to accept the BFA even more!!</p>
<p>It all really depends on what you want to do, yet I have to agree with MichaelNKat. My D is in musical theater at Uarts and this landed her a summer job with a touring company Duks in Philly which will enable her to make some good money over the summer. It was her acting that got her this job, which she has had 1 year of acting training @ Uarts for.
She also got into 2 professional shows, one which only yields 75 dollars, BUT it is a stepping stone to a future in, as she sees it, in small reperatory companies in Philly with the ultimate goal of broadway, if it works out that way. </p>
<p>My S, on the other hand, went the BA in Theater Arts with an excellent college in the West Coast, called Whitman. He got into UCLA honors, Berkley, etc. yet he chose Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, an EXCELLENT school and he graduates this year with a BA in Theater Arts, and a minor in English (the double major was SOOOO much work, he just couldn’t do it all), and has an interest in graduate school in directing, yet currently has some prospects but no real work (despite getting almost straight A’s in college. He will graduate suma cum laude) His plans are to do an MA in directing. His appears to be the more practical route, but my D is the one with the actual jobs doing what she LOVES to do. Uarts has made this possible for her.</p>
<pre><code>Good luck whatever you decide to do. Again it’s about what you really want to do with your life. For my D, Uarts has made it possible for her to realize her dream, to study musical theater and develop a career in it, yet be able to get a real job.
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<p>I think there are zillions of stories out there with an argument for a BA or BFA…Just like the stories of who gets in where and why. (This one got into schools A and B not C, this one got into B and C and not A…etc.) One key thing to think about is how are you spending the next four years. The one difference very few people can argue is curriculum. Do you see yourself training in the arts and doing very little course work outside of your field or do have interests in other things that you would like to pursue throughout your college experience. Even within the BFA’s and the BA’s schools differ tremendously on course requirements. I have always told my students "if you can see yourself doing anything else…go do it. On the other hand if you have your mind set on spending four years just honing your skills, even at the expense of what other’s see as missing out on something, than a conservatory or conservatory style BFA is where you want to be.</p>
<p>bktheater, thanks for your post. Whitman is a wonderful school, and it sounds as though your son is both intelligent AND hardworking… the best possible combination. We’ve been back and forth over the BA vs BFA question with our son who is a junior in h.s. now, and your post confirms my feelings that a BFA is not as limited as some people think it is!</p>
<p>bktheatre… a little off topic, but I found something I posted last year about pursuing careers in directing that your S may find helpful!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060695205-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060695205-post5.html</a></p>
<p>skipsmom – you are right a BFA is not always as limited in terms of academic work as people think. Many do require students to have a more well rounded educational experience. Some BAs also more professionally focused training than others… again – a little off topic from the OP (SORRY!), but I think it is important for students to really look at the required and offered curriculum at each school. Some BAs look more like BFAs (in terms of the level of professional training available, and the number of grads who go directly to work in professional theatre, and some BFAs look more like BAs (in terms of the number of academic courses required outside of the major). The exciting thing is that there really are so many different kinds of educational experiences that can lead a student to a similar outcome in terms of careeer path!</p>
<p>Absolutely agreed! Also, any BA can be structured like a BFA, it’s just that the BFAs are already pre-set. At most schools, BA’s can take any class that a BFA can take, but it’s usually by audition.</p>
<p>It’s really up to the student to make their college experience what they want it to be.</p>