<p>I figured this might be a useful thread since SOME of the acceptances/rejections are happening now (of course others have a LOONG way to go in terms of finding out). If people could maybe post if they know of a specific way online that you can check for a specific school (or if the only way to find out is through "snail mail").....i know each school varies and of course we want to find out we got into the school AND the MT program lol!</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>In my experience, schools will NEVER let you know about your admission decision over the Internet. They totally tease you with links that say "Admissions Decision" and stuff, but (and someone else posted this) it was always say something like "Your decision has been mailed to you and you will receive it shortly." So basically, if you want to know if you've been accepted, check your mailbox. :)</p>
<p>Samia, that may be true for BFA programs but is NOT true for MANY selective schools. I have a daughter who was not a BFA applicant and many of her schools did notify on the internet on a certain date at a certain time (in addition to snail mail but the internet notification was first). She learned of several of her decisions that way. Students were given ID numbers to check on the day decisions were released online. If you visit many of the other forums on CC, particularly some Ivy League forums, you will see that this is actually quite common. I know the school my D attends, Brown, did it this way and you can visit those forums on CC and see the kids doing hourly (LOL) countdowns until the decisions are released online tomorrow! (for ED) </p>
<p>BroadwayWannabe.....My D's list was not the same as yours so I can't comment on all of your schools and it is good you are asking here. But none of my D's BFA programs had it online (sorry!). They were via snail mail. One school had a faculty member call a few days before the official letter arrived (Syracuse). One school (Tisch) sent the invitation for accepted student event (Saturday in the Square) before the letter of acceptance. Other than that, they were all snail mail: Tisch, Syracuse, BOCO, Emerson, Ithaca, CMU, Penn State, UMichigan. However, I recall Carnegie Mellon having an online personal page and some frustration wtih that last year (I'm forgetting the details now! I likely could go back and search here for it, LOL) and there were delays, some knew, some did not....the date of decisions kept changing from the admissions office (what they would say on the phone)...eventually the decision WAS online...it may have been like a day before it came in the mail. So, yeah, CMU has an online system but it was not, let's say, "consistent" for all people. For that matter, my D's online audition appointment for that school which was charged with a receipt online, came up on her ID page much later in the season as "no audition appt. scheduled" and that took some fixing too and thankfully I had printed out the receipt online as her audition date was by then full but of course they honored it as I did it online, paid for it, the very hour the online reservation system started. So, this one school did do things online but all the way around, was problematic for one reason or another (program is great of course!). </p>
<p>Others can let you know about other schools on your list. </p>
<p>Rooting for you guys!!!!!</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>i found a site on emerson that seemed to have some sort of thing dealing with status. I'm not quite clear if it is. It was separate from the website that I submitted my app on...but it said check back for Admissions News....and you have a code and it said the dates that all my stuff had been submitted on. so i dunno if anyone knows...we shall see, i suppose.</p>
<p>BroadwayWannabe....my memory is going about the details but sometimes the schools have a site for "status" such as which materials have been received, which haven't, etc. etc. I can't recall Emerson's online stuff right now but DO recall that the decision came in the mail. I remember this part very well, that's why, lol. I never open my kids' college decision letters. It's for them to open. My D has a close friend from school who also applied EA to Emerson. That friend drove but at the time, my D did not (my daughter is quite a bit younger and was in driver's ed at the time). My D calls from school midday..."check the mail! M. drove home during lunch and got accepted to Emerson!" I'm like, "but I"m not supposed to open your college decisions" and she's, "I know I said that but I have to know!!" So, cells don't get reception at her school so she gave me some minutes to drive to the mailbox....long driveway (this is the country) and was gonna call me back. So, I get the envelope....the BIG kind. In fact, I drove to my mailbox and the mail was not quite there yet so I waited in the snow and the mail person drove up to deliver it and I saw the big envelope and smiled and said, "My daughter is going to be happy, she just got into college" and then I waited to open it when she called back from school. So, I'm opening and reading it while she is on the phone and all excited as it is full of the whole "congratulations" stuff, all the bells and whistles, all the stuff that admitted students need to have and to send back, etc. etc. I start reading the cover letter further down and discover that while, yes, she was admitted to Emerson, she was deferred for the BFA program. This was an outcome I was not aware of until then. We only knew about either being accepted, denied, or deferred. We did not realize you could be accepted but deferred for the BFA program itself. So, while it was cool to get into the first college, it was not the same and was not a school she'd consider attending without the BFA program. Later, she found out her friend who bubbly came to school to say she was admitted, ALSO got what my D got. That's how I remember Emerson :D.</p>