has anyone heard from CMU pre-college yet? - Page 5

nytheatermom · 05-09-2005, 06:50 AM

Debelli,

In my opinion, you are asking an unimportant question at this time. You are already in the program. The key question is: Is it an outstanding program? By all accounts it is.

As the mother of someone who was accepted and a faithful reader of CC, my impression is acceptance is a combinatin of things: 1. it's rolling admission so get your app in early and 2. that your submitted resume showed a great interest in the subject.

CMU seems to be somewhere in between those programs that require audition tapes and those that just require you fill in an application and send your deposit.

Most important, have a great summer at CMU. It sounds like attendees really learn so much.

nytheatermom · 05-09-2005, 06:54 AM

I would add one thing to my last post. Since they are not, for example, comparing audition tapes, it makes it more inexcusable that they have not been quicker with their acceptances. So there may be more screening that I am unaware of. Or they are just not devoting the needed time to these administrative things.

4KidsMom · 05-11-2005, 05:45 PM

Aughhhhhhhhh..........

Still waiting.............................

This is really a drag for my son....................

Scruggz06 · 05-11-2005, 06:12 PM

Congrats to everyone who has made this program so far, it's going to be one amazing summer! I sent my app in overnight on May 1st (the dead-line) and called admissions last Friday and found out I was accepted, and Im sorry 4KidsMom, I feel bad for your son, I understand his frustration except not with CMU, but UMich. Anyways my question was pertaining to all the forms we have to fill out, I haven't yet got my official acceptance letter and I was wondering if all those forms on the website are sent in a booklet with the acceptance letter or do we have to print them off online>?

nytheatermom · 05-11-2005, 08:28 PM

You have to print t hem from the Internet. The acceptance letter is nothing but a letter with the website.

4KidsMom · 05-12-2005, 10:17 AM

He's In !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

soozievt · 05-12-2005, 01:47 PM

YAY!!
YAY!!

nytheatermom · 05-12-2005, 01:58 PM

4kidsmom:
I'm glad to hear that. If you are traveling and need to stay over night, make a hotel reservation ASAP

ToTheStage · 05-12-2005, 02:37 PM

I just found out that I got into the CMU pre-college for MT! WOOT!
I'm pretty sure it's my first choice-I got into Walnut Hill and Performance PLUS and I was waitlisted at Interlochen-I feel like CMU will prepare me the most though for auditions next year...do you all agree? yay!
<3

DizzyDani88 · 05-12-2005, 03:09 PM

Accepted! But going to NHSI

Have fun everyone!!!

NOCCAMom · 05-12-2005, 04:09 PM

4KidsMom - Thank goodness! I hope the acceptance tempers some of the bad experience that you had!

4KidsMom · 05-12-2005, 04:23 PM

We are so excited - all of the waiting and anxiety is now a dim memory!!!!

Thanks everyone for all of your kind words. I did make a hotel reservation about a month ago.

Soozievt - I know your daughter went to SDM. Did she ever go session 3?? My son was there '02 and '03 - only session 3. I'm just wondering if we might have seen her in a show.

soozievt · 05-12-2005, 05:11 PM

4KidsMom, All I can say is whew for you because the anxiety and waiting is over...but if this is your oldest, hold onto your seats for a ride because there is lots of waiting and anxiety with getting into colleges...just wait!

Actually, yes, my D USED to go to SDM second and third sessions for many years. Then in 2002, she switched to first and second sessions, though very very very reluctantly. It was cause she was offered a job to perform at Lincoln Center on what was to be performance weekend for third session and thus a major conflict. She did not want to switch sessions because it meant not being with any third session friends (even though they all were gonna overlap second session...."but MOM, that is ONLY three weeks, I won't see them for SIX!!" ...you get the idea). I had my hand on the phone literally to turn down her NYC debut because merely changing sessions was a BIG deal to her. Her agent talked to her and she changed her mind, accepted the Lincoln Center job and switched to first and second. Lo and behold, after this MAJOR decision "ordeal" in the life of a thirteen year old (LOL), we are enroute to performance weekend for second session 2002 and we get a call on my cell that the orchestra at Lincoln Center went on strike and all the shows for August were likely going to be called off. We frantically made all these calls back and forth to anyone we could speak to in NYC until we learned that the shows were all cancelled. Now, what to tell D when we arrived at camp?? You gave up third session for nothing??? So, we decided to let her stay on for third session (for a total of nine weeks that one summer ONLY) and we broke the news at that little chinese restaurant down the road from camp (you likely know it, everyone goes there between shows) and first told her that her show at Lincoln Center was called off (after having been in the NYTimes and so forth) BUT you can now stay for third session. She hardly blinked at the cancellation of her first NY show because in the same breath, we said another session of camp and she screamed with such delight that the parents at all the other tables looked over and I had to explain that she is happier about another session at camp than sad about her NYC debut cancellation! It was kinda like in Harry Met Sally....where everyone looks at our table ! Soooo, my D overlapped with your son (have no idea who your son is??) third session in 2002. By the way, after all that "fuss", subsequent summers, she switched to first and second session (can ya believe it after all that??) because everyone she was friends with all have switched over to first/second! So, in 2003 and 2004 she went first/second. This year she is going back for her 8th and final time, but just for first session.

During third session in 2002, my D was in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as one of the stepsisters (Joy). The other stepsister was her roomie who has the same first name by the way as my D. My D was also in the Our Time Cabaret if you saw that (your son definitely saw it if he was not in it) and was the soloist who sang Brother Can You Spare a Dime. There is a good chance your son might know my daughter as they are the same age (she is 16 and a junior but is graduating high school a year early).

What show was your son in? I usually watch many shows in one weekend. Freelance (who posts here)'s D was Dorothy in The Wiz that session. I saw that as well and have to think back as to what else I watched that time.

Let me know (though I do not use first names on here, just so you know).

Susan

4KidsMom · 05-12-2005, 08:09 PM

Oh My Gosh ~ We Remember Your Daughter!!!!!!!!!
She was awesome - I remember laughing so hard at those two girls! We saw Cinderalla at The Wang in Boston a few years ago and my 3 little girls said the step sisters at SDM were so much better and their favorites!
My son was in The Wiz in '02. The following year he was in Blood Brothers (he played the mean, rotton brother!)
A small world.............

My son is taking a former SDM alum to her prom tomorrow night. They became great friends there.

He still misses SDM. He didn't go back in '04. He got a part in Grease at a local professional theatre and did the show every night for the summer.

Hopefully CMU will be not only a great learning experience.... but a blast as well!!

DizzyDani88 · 05-12-2005, 08:19 PM

4KidsMom- WOW. What a small world. I spent New Years with your son, and his best friend who I'm good friends with. Tell him that Allie is going to be at CMU with him this summer, as is Lexie if he remembers her. I love how small the theater world is. Tell your son "Hey!" from Maria Gonzalez in Smile!