<p>Congrats everyone!!</p>
<p>Keep the good news rolling! Congrats everyone! We’re on the final stretch!</p>
<p>Great to see such happy news here! Hoping to add more this week from the next group!</p>
<p>Ewanes - a few awesome opportunities there, congrats! I love the look of Pepperdine, and I know that is a way stupid reason to like a school - but it just seems classy somehow! Good programs, too, as is Chapman. Nice!</p>
<p>ugadog - back in the fall, I remember in some of your posts, you sounded, well . . . unsure if your D should even go down this crazy path. Thank goodness she did! Look at all these offers to wonderful programs! I’m sure she is feeling so confident right about now, as she should. Congrats on PPU!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the wonderful parents here who have already had son/daughter’s receive good news. I’m so so happy that all the hard work is paying off. Special congrats to Ugadog99, a sister-mom in tech theatre. lol. I’ve been certain your D would have some wonderful choices and PPU is an amazing program–if that turns out to be feasible and her final choice.</p>
<p>Really, 2 years after my S went through all this drama, I find the families with theatre kids still amazing and amazingly resilient. </p>
<p>And prodesse, please don’t write off University of Southern California!!! ;)</p>
<p>ugadog congrats on PPU! We recieved a letter yesterday from PPU saying that DS has been accepted to the acting program! We were told in his waitlist letter that we would find out by April so it was an early unexpected surprise.</p>
<p>Thanks y’all! It has been a great afternoon here! </p>
<p>Marbleheader, I did have a lot of doubts early on in this process. Much of it was due to the “teacher” who is, thankfully, a non issue now. I owe a gigantic thank you to all of you wonderful parents who made suggestions and listened to me whine during this process. My daughter is feeling pretty good right now. </p>
<p>At this point, her top choices are Point Park, Otterbein, and if she gets in, Webster. We both think it’s funny that 2 of her 3 picks are ones that we really hadn’t put a lot of interest in but have slowly and steadily risen to the top. It is a crazy process!</p>
<p>cjenny2 - congrats on that early “yes”. Glad you didn’t have to wait until april!</p>
<p>Is there someone here who can comfort a down mama? My S has literally done everything right over the years and is told by every professional he works with that they love working with him because he is ‘so talented’ and yet, his college auditions have only yielded two schools… one he really doesn’t want to go to at all, but they liked him a lot… and one that he likes a lot, but wasn’t in his top four or five choices. He has literally been turned down for everyone else. We still have two left to hear from, but it isn’t looking that good.</p>
<p>Calarts just told him in his rejection letter that they really liked his work and would like him to re-audition next year after a year of artistic growth. And would he please call admissions for advice on what to work on if he decides to re-audition. And that they hope to hear from him soon. IS that really a good choice? To re-audition next year? Thoughts?</p>
<p>I feel so bad for him. He has wanted to be an actor his whole life and is so passionate. Not sure where the disconnect has been in this audition process. Anyway, I am sad today.</p>
<p>(acting720) and (acting720son). Hugs. This is a very uncertain process and the sudden swings up or down require Dramamine. His talent and passion are clearly there. His luck… not great so far. I hope in the world of karma, he’ll have amazing good luck further down his career (castings, film work) and you know–that may be the time to really hope the luck is on your side. But for now, it is disappointing for sure. I posted on the CalArts thread that his letter had a very positive spin and perhaps there is something further that could come from it? Even if not, it is affirmation that he auditions well and his talent and abilities were truly admired.</p>
<p>As all us old-timers know: things have a way of working out for the best. Even when that seems so hard to grasp when in a low place. </p>
<p>Good things are coming, and I’m sure you’ll reassure your son that he’s due.</p>
<p>I wish I could be of more help, acting720, but am sending big virtual hugs to you and your boy. One of his options is Marymount, right? And I’m forgetting the other one…but I havent forgotten how bad it felt for my son to get two rejections in a row or to be dismissed with a snarky remark by a department chair following an audition. It’s undermining, and it takes nerve and resilience to keep going. Sounds to me like your son doesn’t just “want to be an actor,” he IS an actor and will find his place sooner or later. <3</p>
<p>I pm’d you…and Times3 probably said it better than I ever could. Believe it or not, come August, you will be moving him into a dorm and he will become immersed in the program and this will be a distant memory.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. Hugs to you all! :)</p>
<p>Acting720, I have heard of very talented kids who have had a similar experience, sometimes even kids who have done great at Thespian Festivals and competitions but didn’t get into the school they wanted. Then they take a gap year to train and work, then re-audition, and do very well next time around. I think the key is finding a really good coach. We live in a small place, and we never really did find someone locally. They are still so young. There’s time.</p>
<p>Marble header, thank you, yes, Pepperdine, it is just so incredibly beautiful. That was one of our two on-campus auditions. The dining hall with the with huge deck overlooking the Pacific, the fog rolling in and out, sun and shade, and fragrant bushes already in bloom. Now we wait for the financial aid to come in…ahhh</p>
<p>Ugadog and Cjenny: Congrats!!! so happy for you guys pretty awesome stuff</p>
<p>Acting 720, hang in there, it aint over yet, hang in there and see if he can keep an open mind to the acceptances that he did get and maybe he will see them in a different light .</p>
<p>Thanks mom2gals and great news about Pace for your D too!!!</p>
<p>Acting720, I just sent you a message.</p>
<p>My S who is a Junior just got an email from the theater director at Muhlenberg giving him his telephone number in case he had any questions…WOW!! That school has jumped to the top of my S’s list!!</p>
<p>Acting 720</p>
<p>What you and your son are feeling right now I promise you every actor at some point in their professional career will feel; yes even the ones who today got the your in call from CMU, or the person we never hear about on the CC boards that got into Juilliard.</p>
<p>There comes a day, a week, a month a year or two or three, when actors dont book the jobs they really wanted, or for that matter any job at all.</p>
<p>Your son just got that moment now. And you and he are lucky. Its preparing him for life as a professional actor. He is learning resilience, appreciation for what he does have, and I am sure a few other things about himself as well.</p>
<p>He will recall this moment when in the future he books that amazing part and truly feels grateful. Gratitude is often one of those things when we are getting what we want we do not think about, yet it is really the key to a happy and successful life.</p>