| AlwaysAMom, just to followup on my post above, my daughter came home for a brief moment to have dinner after an all day rehearsal before she now leaves for the next thing. I asked her about her recollection of what they said that day at the audition about this just so I knew I was not nuts (I pretty vividly recalled this because it became a topic of conversation that day because it conflicted with prior information we had had). Anyway, she concurred with me that upon questions from those in the meeting, that the faculty person said you could not switch INTO CAP from a different studio. My D, however, thinks that they said this for a reason. She feels that they were worried that kids would apply to Tisch and get into a studio besides CAP (but have wanted CAP) with the notion that they could eventually switch into CAP and they wanted to discourage this because it is not something they can let lots of people do. In fact, since everyone there that day for the audition wanted CAP (it was the optional dance audition day), they made a STRONG urging to everyone to stipulate a second and third choice studio because the odds to get into CAP were the lowest of all the studios. My D did give a second choice (Playwrights) and a third choice (Stella Adler) but seriously only wanted musical theater. At some other schools, you could check off if you'd accept Acting if you did not get MT, and she had written NO. But for NYU, she left that open. For CMU, you could not say no to Acting and are considered for either even though she auditioned for MT. She ended up waitlisted, however, for Acting there. Her passion lies in musical theater so I am glad she was not admitted to acting there because she liked CMU a lot but I know she really wanted to pursue MT and the waitlist made it so that she did not have to entertain that difficult choice but was a nice little affirmation of acting. In any case, it did seem odd that day at NYU that the faculty person said no to switching INTO CAP.
The older sister of my D's friend (who just finished first year in Strasburg), the one who transferred from Tufts to Tisch, just graduated Tisch and I don't think she started over there as a freshman after transferring from Tufts.
Susan |