I signed up for an open house and a scholar night at a college I’ve been accepted to, but it looks like I’ll probably have to cancel due to a scheduling mistake. I wouldn’t worry about it, but I’m up for a full-tuition scholarship at that college. Is it going to affect my chances of getting the scholarship to cancel?
Is this a scholarship event where those who attend interview and then are considered for scholarships?
Is the scheduling conflict something you can change?
In short, the conflict is the high school musical; I am the stage director. The college is a couple of hours away, and the event is strung out across a couple of days. I have an interview Friday, the scholars night on Saturday night, and a general open house/informational sessions on Sunday. It seems like each event is pretty independent of the others. I would be able to make the interview and the musical, but not the events on Saturday or Sunday.
Basically, I have two options: stick with this plan and try to do it all, cancelling only the activities I am registered for on Saturday and Sunday or bail on musical entirely, something I would do if necessary, but feel bad about, especially since I have incorporated musical into more than one of my scholarship essays.
Cancelling on Saturday and Sunday wouldn’t directly affect my chances, but I’m worried that the college will record that I’m not dependable or something because I dropped out less than a month before the event and hold that against me. I want to do everything in my power to get this scholarship.
Contact them, and let them know about the conflict with your responsibilities as Stage Manager. Ask which events are necessary for you to attend in order to remain competitive for the scholarship. Be prepared to promote one of your Assistant Stage Managers if need be. Just pick the good one so that the light/sound/costumes/front-of-house folks don’t suddenly hate you. 
Wishing you all the best!
I agree. You can explain that you made a commitment to be the stage manager not knowing this was going to be a conflict. Ask what you need to do…they might be very helpful.
Yes, contact them and explain. I suspect that making the interview on Friday and then returning for the musical would be the best course of action. One on one interviews are hard to replace, but group meetings/info sessions are likely not very important.
Very unlikely, unless you’ve known about the conflict for a long time and are just letting them know very close to the actual event.
Because of corona virus, it’s most likely cancelled anyway. You’ll want to contact the school to see what other changes they might have made and how it might affect you.