<p>I just need to let you all know how much I appreciate the information, support, and advice of everyone on these boards. My son has been a member here for about a year, however I didn't venture over here until after Chicago Unifieds in February. He handled everything college related up until then and I knew next to nothing about this entire process (and am still pretty darned green) , but you all have been invaluable to our family these last 6 weeks or so. Thank you!!!</p>
<p>SeniorMom08 - I still remember my excitement when I "found" this forum some years ago. My D had just announced that she really wanted to pursue a BFA and quite frankly I had no clue what it all entailed. I did a search for BFA musical theatre and would up reading threads and threads on the "old forum" of people who, surprisingly :D, were just like me going through this process. I was mostly a "lurker" at the time, and have to admit that I felt pretty overwhelmed in the beginning. </p>
<p>Now, a few years and a new forum later, I really feel that we are all part of the same big MT family and I find myself rooting for all of our kids to land in a good place.</p>
<p>What they said, above, and more. As I was just telling someone via PM, I honestly shudder thinking how ill prepared my daughter and myself would have been going into this process had I not also stumbled onto this forum. But it's been more than a source of facts: I also have made some very nice friends here that I know I will be in touch with long after my kidlet is in college. Thanks, everyone! :)</p>
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<p>ha ha ... you guys are great! I look forward to helping other people next year after this incredible experience is over ... or at least this stage of it!</p>
<p>I voiced this yesterday on the rejection list. It has been fun to have all of you out there. Thinking ahead since this is a college site - do we start ParentsOfPerformers dot com so we can chat everyday as they graduate from college and start pounding the pavement auditioning? :)</p>
<p>Wanted to add my THANKS, HUGS, AND HAPPY FACES all around!
We couldn't have done it without CC :)</p>
<p>Just wanted to chime in as well and say thanks to everyone on CC for all your help. Although I am not a frequent participator--I have valued everything that each of you have contributed since I found out about this site last year. You have made this process a heck of a lot easier by your advice, stories, etc. A special thanks to Soozievt for all the time that you put into this forum!! I agree with MOP--Maybe we should develop a Parents of Performers site--wrinkledfacebook.com, anyone?? :)</p>
<p>MomOfAPrincess...I couldn't agree more about a new site for discussion in the future. I am afraid that we could "take over' this site with our continued discussion after our kids move on. I am, however, looking forward to offering help after we get through this process. At this point I hesitate to give out advice until we get to the other side of this thing...
I am sooo thankful I stumbled on this site a little over a year ago. I would not have been able to help my d through this process and I know she would have missed out on a lot of great opportunities and audition experiences...so thanks all of you! We haven't felt alone in this!</p>
<p>hey guys - it's like Trix...Facebook isn't just for kids. There are groups for high school alumni, graduate school alumni and all kinds of business organizations on Facebook.</p>
<p>Ok I started a Facebook group - Parents of College Theatre Students</p>
<p>wrinkledfacebook.com....Good One!!!</p>
<p>MOAP! You are my hero. :)</p>
<p>I hope the current crop of parents stay on here past their child's entrance into college. One thing that makes the site great is having those who have been through it, still contributing. Also, I realize that many of you ONLY participate on the MT forum but I have been on CC for six years and participate on many forums on this site, including particularly the Parent forum and Parent cafe and I can tell you that many of the original parents who went through the college process when my oldest (now a senior in college!) went through it, are STILL here and have gone through sharing every stage of the process of having kids in college and now some with job hunting or grad school admissions and so forth. Many do stay on and there are threads that share and discuss kids IN college and beyond. We certainly can have discussion threads here for those with kids IN MT programs. We already do. I realize all you new guys who we can't wait to welcome to the "other side" have been participating as parents of kids applying but many of us participating as parents of kids in college here. Join in on those discussions when you come over to "our side"!</p>
<p>PS...I have not been participating on facebook because I have seen it as a site for college kids to share (I realize it has gone beyond that recently) but I feel that it is my kids' domain and I want them to have it without my looking since it really was originally just for the college kids.</p>
<p>Ditto-to all the warm fuzzies. I have been on this site for two years now and it has provided me with a wealth of information that cannot be found elsewhere. My S owes much of his success to all those "who have gone before" and have shared their experiences with all of us. I definitely plan to post and contribute once my S is of to school-of course I'm addicted and may have to attend the Betty Ford Center for CC addiction before my wife lets me continue. Best of wishes to all as this next week brings in the flood of responses that we(the proverbial we once again-but the parents and their children are waiting) have been anticipating.</p>
<p>I want to chime in as well to say how grateful I am to CC (especially the MT section). I have been on CC for 6 years, my oldest will be graduate this spring from Carleton College. Her major is Ethnomusicology (what will she do with that!!). When we started looking into theatre programs for my son it was a whole different set of needs. I adopted the MT site as a place where I could find info about theatre schools. My son is not in MT but Stage Management. There is no info on CC for SM. He has been accepted to several fine programs. I have learned so much from this site.
Thank you all for your wealth of info and support.
Got to have a good stage manager for musical theatre!!</p>
<p>Soozie, you can have a facebook without looking at your kid's facebook at all! They have to decide whether or not they want your to be their "friend" so you can only see those people who have accepted you as their friend unless it's an open group such as this one MOAP is talking about.</p>
<p>That is correct. In this particular case I am not my D's friend and she is not mine. Glad it's not that way outside Facebook! </p>
<p>Actually I created the Parents of College Theatre Students as a "closed" group. Which means you have to request to join. Which means that people that aren't members can't read our posts. Which means that people from the colleges they are attending can't read our posts. On CC we do this talking openly in PM one-on-one. On Facebook we can do it as a group. </p>
<p>Soozie - I look forward to doing this again next year on CC with a new group sans the airplane trips. Starting the group doesn't mean leaving CC. It's just as a previous poster said filling a need without taking over this board and with the privacy mentioned above.</p>
<p>Sounds interesting -- I'm really new to Facebook, and when I tried to search your group, came up with nothing. How do I access it, and how do I request to join?</p>
<p>did you put "Parents of College Theatre Students" (without the quotes) in the search box? Somewhere on the page there should be a place for you to click to ask to join I think. Otherwise you can PM me here your FB name and I'll send you an invite.</p>
<p>I just joined the Parents of College Theatre Students Facebook group -- yea!! I certainly plan to stick around here as well, how could we ever survive without our CC friends?! But I am also excited to have another place to share the next steps in this journey with many of our new friends. </p>
<p>onstage - I'm not sure if you figured out how to get in that group, but just in case you didn't, or for any others who'd like to join, you need to start by creating a Facebook account/profile. It's quick and easy.</p>
<p>Once you've done that, on the left side of the page there is a search box. Simply type in Parents of College Theatre Students and hit search. The group will come up at the top of the search results, so click on the group. Then on the right side of the page (I think?) there is a place that tells you something like "This is a closed group -- click here to request to join." Once you do that, MOAP who is the group administrator will get a message to accept you into the group. Once she does that, you're all set.</p>
<p>I send out my own {{{Warm Fuzzies}}} to everyone here, you've made me feel a lot less psycho through this. Just knowing there are hundreds of others feeling just as psycho as me has helped a whole bunch! :) We're almost done!!</p>