<p>OK, so lets just start it...</p>
<p>Waitlists...who's on them...and have you heard, etc. Let us Know!</p>
<p>D is/was on two waitlists..heard "no" from one already.....don't want to jinx it by saying where...cross fingers for the second one please!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>i'm on the waitlist for OU drama. they said i'd know by april 30th. so i should hear from them any day now.</p>
<p>its my first choice school. i really hope i get in. but i have my backups.</p>
<p>I'll find out about acceptance to SHSU musical theatre any day now as well. hmm we'll see!</p>
<p>Sending mucho karma to Chris's talented daughter!!!!</p>
<p>Dramaddict, am really hoping your first choice comes through for you and luckily if not, you do have backups. But crossing fingers and toes on your wish!!</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>The advice in general for students who are waitlisted is that they should keep in touch with the school, send updates, recent accomplishments, etc. Is that true for MT kids on a waitlist? Keeping in touch I can see, but what about anything else? thanks! My D has been advised by friends as if she were a 'regular' applicant, but MT is different, as we all know.</p>
<p>Hi everybody. I've been lurking for some time, but decided to come on board and ask some questions, if you don't mind.</p>
<p>My dd is about to enter a PA high school (so she is still very young), but I've been reading so much of these forums, that I've gotten quite interested.</p>
<p>With regard to MT waiting lists, what do people usually do? I know most colleges expect sizable deposits be made. If you are waitlisted at one college, hoping to get acceptance, but have to make a decision and put up all your tuition and housing deposits, do you end up losing all that money? Do people "waste" a lot of money putting deposits down on universities they "hope" to be accepted into from the waitlist? If you choose not to accept the waitlist because of financial considerations elsewhere, but then the next year you decide to audition again, can you tell them you were waitlisted the previous year, and then accepted, but because of money, decided to decline it? Would it help you be accepted the second time you audition?</p>
<p>I know I must sound pretty "green", but I guess I am.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>My daughter just found out from Emerson that they are NOT taking anyone off of their waitlist. Why it took till mid-June for them to make this decision, one cannot imagine. It really put us in a spot because her safety school was asking for more and more $$ towards tuition and housing (all of it NON refundable) so we were increasingly at financial risk while waiting for Emerson to make up their mind. </p>
<p>Since she was waitlisted at Emerson, and if she decides to try and transfer there as a sophomore next year, I am hoping that her inclusion on the waitlist this year, plus very good grades as a Freshman (we hope) will earn her the chance to go to Emerson, should she choose to do so.</p>
<p>I think at some schools they "admit" more than needed and never go to the waitlist.</p>
<p>Somewhere down the line I read someone saying they were waitlisted at Syracuse MT but talking with admissions there they said they don't establish a waitlist. They "admit" almost double and take from that never having to use a waitlist.</p>
<p>I had alot of trouble with Emerson with the application and my audition---they had everything screwed up.</p>
<p>Roosevelt didn't take anyone from the waitlist this year either, we heard. </p>
<p>In general, if you are put on an MT waitlist, I'd say, figure you are not going to get in. Somehow this point escaped my D and me this year, and she had high (but apparently unfounded) hopes.</p>
<p>My advice to anyone on a waitlist that they want is to let the school know, ask your counselor to let the school know, send any new info that reflects well. And then forget about it. Funny, but it seems like the ones who truly do this often end up getting off the danged waitlist. Happened twice with mine--S1 and niece both with Cornell. </p>
<p>But if you are truly engaged with the school where you sent your deposit, you may find that you are not interested in going to the waitlisted school if you really start the bonding process. Even when the school was a dream school, I have found some kids finding themselves feeling ambivalent, probably the feeling they should have had all along in order to avoid the bipolar gauntlet that the college process put these kids through. I would not dwell on a waitlist. Not good for the mental health.</p>
<p>I'm not surprised by your comments about your Emerson application and audition, nor about the confusion with other's waitlisted there. WE loved the school on our visit but, as I have written elsewhere on this forum, they ran a very poor audition and had much of their info about admission/application/references confused. </p>
<p>I do know that FSU had a waitlist because when my d was offered one of the 13 spots, they said that there were no girls on their waitlist...encouraging her to accept it. I don't know what their freshman class is going to look like (boy/girl) because my D and another girl we know of turned them down.</p>
<p>One of my D's closest guy friends was waitlisted at a few schools this Spring (UM, Syracuse and PSU) and...got into UM! So..it does happen...maybe not often, but sometimes.</p>