<p>For those of you who are eagerly awaiting acceptances, when do you expect to get news? Do most schools wait until after all Unifieds to make any further decisions? Do the rejections and/or deferals typically come sooner than acceptances?</p>
<p>I'm taking vicarious pleasure in your experiences and am interested to hear what the timeframe is from here forward.</p>
<p>Is May 1st the final date, or will all schools let you know sooner so you can make final decisions by May 1st?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who have completed auditions, and our fingers are crossed for everyone!!</p>
<p>The schools all work differently. Some schools admit, deny, or “hold” on a rolling basis as the audition season wears on (by the way, Unifieds is not nearly the end of auditions as many schools have several on campus audition dates to come). Other programs notify everyone at one time after ALL auditions are completed…in mid to late March and by April 1. All schools should be notifying everyone, no matter what, by April 1, though some may be waitlisted at that time. All candidates then have until May 1 to reply to their colleges as to their intentions to matriculate. But all schools will be notifying by April 1 or thereabouts. That gives students a min. of one month to decide upon their options.</p>
<p>We will see lots of results coming in during March here on CC and decisions made by applicants during April.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info! Seeing your reply reminded me that D did have an Oklahoma callback scheduled in March (IIRC) so it makes sense that auditions are still underway. I’d been seeing many of D’s friends talking about thier final auditions, so I’d thought audition season was winding down.</p>
<p>Hang in there everyone!! April 1st will be here soon!!</p>
<p>Auditions are over for D which is a really great feeling for her and for us. But now the waiting seems more difficult since there aren’t auditions to focus on.</p>
<p>My kid is throwing herself into rehearsals and school work, trying very hard to not to think about all the decisions that are probably being made as I type.</p>
<p>The year my daughter was a senior it didn’t seem there was time for senioritis! LOL, time flew from March till August!! Her last audition was early March, then right into National qualifiers for Debate, gathering and comparing acceptances, re-visits to campuses in April, decision, YAY…graduation and speeches to write, National Forensic League Tournament in June which was the last thing for High School. Whew!
Tonsils out in July, which had needed to come out for several years, but could never find the time, then off to college in late August! Time went very quickly, and I think the entire process helped my daughter get through the end of High School very determined to finish well and move on!</p>
<p>Hang in there!! Enjoy this last year with our students at home!</p>
<p>The only decision that was a problem for my daughter last year was after her auditon for UCLA’s MT program. My D was a transfer and UCLA does not notify transfers until late April. I think she finally got her acceptance around April 27. By then she had some of her other acceptances for a couple of months and we were feeling guilty about not notifying schools. Even though UCLA was originally her top choice, she caved and accepted at another school that just kept hounding her and where she felt she would really thrive. Fortunately when she finally did get her UCLA acceptance, she had no regrets about choosing the other program- and she loves it there!!! But talk about a long wait!!!</p>
<p>Ah… it sounds like senioritis is a bigger problem for our D than for most here. So for those of you still on pins and needles, take some comfort in knowing that hearing the final answer in December has its drawbacks, too. ;-D </p>
<p>Hope some schools make decisions so that many of you have an exiting time this week!</p>
<p>@mammamt - hope your D’s tonsillectomy went smoothly (obviously it must have) since I think that can be serious surgery for a high-school-aged kid, right?</p>
<p>@ takeitallin - April 27th? That must have been AGONY!!</p>
<p>MomCares, from your OP, here’s the “wait period” info for DS from last year. Granted, he was going for Acting, not MT, but I’m sure the wait time is comparable:</p>
<p>Wow – I think D would have forgotten she even auditioned for school (A) before finding out if she’d been accepted! It’s cool that he had a safety acceptance in December, though! Our big state school used to do rolling admissions, but now kids don’t even find out there until late March.</p>
<p>Seeing all of these long wait times is a point in favor of doing the early auditions at the national Thespian Festival. At least that way some kids can enter the process with a couple of good acceptances under their belts, which might make the waiting a bit less agonizing. Also yet another reason to wait until the end to audition for your top choices, so you don’t have to wait as long on those?</p>
<p>If a three month wait is hard on us, it must be an eternity for a teenager!</p>
<p>Momcares, the tonsillectomy was very stressful, but couldn’t have gone better. The surgeon was well aware that she was a singer and couldn’t believe that she could sing with her tonsils in! They were so large he wasn’t sure how she had been able to do that! My daughter spoke with the chairman of her college program and many others that assured her that her voice would be better for getting them out. So glad we did…not sure she has been sick since! Thanks for asking!</p>
<p>I had my tonsils out in HS, and at the time it was considered very serious surgery for older kids… but I wasn’t sure that was still true since my experience was almost 100 year ago. ;-D</p>
<p>I’d wondered about the singing aspect of it. I assume she’d been getting sick a lot and that’s why they removed them? Was her voice different afterwords?</p>
<p>Also wondering - does anyone hold out hope that you’ll hear from your top choice schools earlier than others, or do people pretty much plan to wait to hear from everyone before making any final decisions?</p>
<p>If most folks wait until the very end to make final decisions, I suppose the waiting is even longer for those with deferrals or those who need to wait for final financial aid info.</p>
<p>Some day all of this will make for good stories, right? The good news is that virtually everyone we know looks back on this process and feels they wound up in exactly the right place. Ironically, the few people I know who aren’t as positive of this are the people who got into their first choice schools. ;-D</p>
<p>Yes, she was ill a lot…strep, mono, more strep…lots of strep! It is a more difficult surgery when you are older, with the highest risk being bleeding. The doctor had her stay very quiet for 3-4 weeks, and we were not allowed to leave town during that time because of the risk of bleeding. Turned out her tonsils were so large it truly was surprising she got any sound out before!! I don’t know if her voice sounds different, but it is more open and much easier for her! We would have done it sooner, but there just was never a long enough stretch to get them out, but so glad we did before college started!</p>
<p>@mommamt – Yup, that string of strep infections sounds like exactly what led to my tonsillectomy. Funny - our D recently had a crud that’s been circulating and commented that it was the first time in her life that her throat has ever hurt. Imagine that (I certainly can’t)!!</p>
<p>Gotta admit the idea of D staying quiet for 3-4 weeks is equally unfathomable to me. What do people do when their live-in belter moves out? :-D</p>