| LotteLenya, I'm really sorry about NU, but it sounded like you were leaning towards NYU anyway, so that's good! I'll let you know when my son decides -- he's waiting on studio assignment and financial info from NYU, but it's not going to be an easy decision for him. Like Susan said, both schools are excellent, but very different.
Thanks, Manuelo -- we were hoping for a positive result, especially since he attended the NHSI program there last summer for 7 weeks, but you never know with NU -- they're really unpredictable.
Susan, it was disturbing and amusing at the same time to get someone else's admission packet (including financials). My son was on the phone with his girlfriend when I excitedly brought him the big envelope with "Congratulations!" on the front, and he opened it and started reading the letter to her, and the expression on his face was priceless when he read, "Dear Joseph... Dear Joseph?!" (His name is Matt.) It's very funny in retrospect, but yes, our first thought was whether he actually got in. We called admissions first, but when they wouldn't give us an answer until the Director of Admissions returned, we were a little worried and my husband called the other kid's parents. His mom wouldn't open the envelope because it was addressed to her son, even though we had her son's info in our hands (I don't blame her), so we had to wait for admissions to call us back. Luckily, it was good news. What a crazy thing. | 
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