| freelance, You misunderstood my statement and took it out of context. Yes, they face rejection. They will face lots of rejection. There is rejection in high school, rejection at college auditions and rejection in the professional world. I'm not saying they shouldn't learn to face rejections. Of course they should. But, they have to be able to face it and still believe in their talent, not walk away saying, "well, i got rejected so I must not be talented." I just hate to think that some kid who got a rejection letter is reading a post on this forum telling them that if they didn't get into a top program, they just aren't good enough and they need to face that. I'm talking about one individual's post. Even the people making the decisions regarding who is accepted at these schools would tell you that many, many talented kids are not accepted on a given day for a multitude of reasons, other than whether they are talented. I just meant that I think it is a mean thing to say on this forum. And I meant that the market can determine whether they are talented enough to make it......not that that will be easy, but that it should be determined there.......not by an individual on here who wants to tell them to just face it now. Of course they should read these forums and read them through and through. There's tons of good information and tons of good support. I wasn't referring to the forum as a whole, just that one post which I found hurtful to the kids who didn't get the results they wanted from their college auditions. |