LocoMom

Are you waitlisted? My d is for Drama.

snarles

Yeah I'm priority waitlisted for Musical Theatre.

Mphagan18

I'm priority waitlisted for musical theatre too.

LocoMom

Mphagan, Is your friend who got in for drama going? I'm looking for a ray of hope for my d.

Mphagan18

I'm pretty sure she is going... but best of luck to your daughter!

LocoMom

My d just received a letter from CMU stating she is one of the top 5 waitlisted out of 1000 people who auditioned. I don't know if that really made her feel better or not.

soozievt

LocoMom, I don't know the chances of getting off the list, but the way my D took being on the Priority Waitlist for Drama at CMU was an affirmation. After that, she didn't give it too much thought and moved onto her other acceptances in hand. An affirmation is still a nice feeling. Selective programs cannot take all that are qualified. Clearly out of 1000 (my D's year, they mentioned 1200), there has to be more than 10 MT and 18 Drama candidates who may have the skills needed to get in but there simply isn't the space in the class. I think if you come close or make a waitlist, it is a sense of having what they are looking for if they have space available. That is, they ARE willing to take you into their program. That is something that is worth knowing, even if the waitlist isn't utilized or she doesn't get off it.

For my D, I'm glad she didn't get off it because her passion is MT and with MT offers in hand, it wasn't the best fit to go with the Drama program, even if it is a great drama program. So, one way to view the Priority Waitlist was an affirmation of acting talent and that can be a nice thing to receive too. In my D's case, she was quite shocked to get on the Priority Waitlist for Acting, not just because of the low odds, but because acting was the one of the three skill areas (voice and dance being the other two) that she had the least training in and we have no drama classes or lessons where we live or at school.

In my view, it's time now to look at the actual acceptances in hand and move on psychologically. The waitlists are a nice outcome and result too, even if not an admit. If they come through later, deal with it then, but in the meantime, don't count on it and start getting excited about the schools you know you can go to. Ya never know if the waitlist might happen but the odds are greater it won't but it could. My D's friend is a junior in the MT program at CMU and she got in off the waitlist. Anything IS possible. Better to not count on it, in my view. Getting this result should still be a GOOD feeling!

frozenchosenak

I posted a personal message to you, Soozie but your mailbox is full!

soozievt

Frozen...yes, my PM box IS full and keeps filling up and I prefer emails. Send me an email instead, thanks. However, while I look forward to hearing from you, I am very backlogged on the NUMEROUS emails that forum members have been sending me. As I am simply volunteering, I can't keep up with them all. I try to volunteer many hours on the forum in an effort to reach out to many at one time. Helping with individual cases as a volunteer takes a lot of hours as well and right now, I have been inundated with email. I will try to reply to all but be patient as there are just so many volunteer hours in a day. I try to use my volunteer time ON the forum to give free advice, rather than with all the individual cases separately. I have to tend to my clients first on a frequent individualized basis through emails. I also have had a lot of travel and some more coming up which take me offline. So, just giving you a heads up that I can't respond to all the non-client emails in a timely way as I do with clients daily.

I did ask my niece when I saw her recently about your son (they are friends as you know, through theater in your state) and where he might be headed next year. So, drop me a note and I will try to eventually get to you once I dig out from all the other emails!

frozenchosenak

Good to hear from you, Soozie! I just talked to your niece and sister-in-law at West High's "Much Ado About Nothing" tonight. Our son is on the CMU waitlist but has also received an acceptance to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland this Fall for a three year BA degree and is one of five Americans to be accepted each year. We are hearing wonderful things about the program but have never visited Scotland or the school. He received a letter from CMU stating that he was one of the top 5 on the waitlist but required us to send in $600 for him to be placed on the priority list and state that it was his #1 choice. RSAMD is only $27,000 a year for three years and CMU is $55,000 for four years. The latter is not within our budget AT ALL. If a substantial financial package is awarded AFTER an acceptance, it might be a consideration but at this point he has decided to stay on the waitlist. He has had an AMAZING two years at Interlochen Arts Academy. He was cast as Frog in "A Year with Frog and Toad". The 12 member cast traveled to the Helen Mills Theatre in Manhattan for four shows and he was just cast as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", which will open May 10th on campus. If you have any insights, thoughts or ideas, please feel free to share.

KatMT

A former student of mine did the Royal Scottish Academy 1 year post graduate program after finishing college at a BA school in the states. She loved the program at RSA.

frozenchosenak

Kate,
Thanks so much for the connection with your friend. She has been a marvelous source of information about RSAMD. We will continue our dialogue for months to come.
Gratefully.....

snarles

I also received a letter saying I was in the top 5.

KatMT

frozenchosenak... glad that HH could be a wonderful source of info... Best of Luck!