@artskids you are good! I blacked out all of those “redirections” from my mind 
@bisouu they were acceptances
Ugh I hate this phone! I should have posted in the Acting thread (they are discussing dates).
According to the theater thread- Michigan is making calls for BFA acting (an acceptance posted there)
Yeah! Congrats to the Michigan Acting kids!!! No, @shopforpunky not per se a Facebook forum just many awesome friends whom I love dearly! I am going out for the evening…I look forward to the break. Keep the faith CCers, this is an awesome place that just needs to get a few things under control.
DISCUSSION OF MODERATION IS NOT PERMITTED ON THE FORUMS. CC’S TEAM OF MODERATORS CONTINUE TO DEAL WITH SUCH VIOLATIONS OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE.
Can I say something and then crawl back in my hole like Punxsutawney Phil? I’ve gotten 8 PMs, or emails or FB’s to read this thread today which is actually “yesterday” based on where I am right now. I’m retired from CC and my hole was really comfy.
I think it’s still Feb 21 where most of you guys are right now. That means in 1 week and 2 months it will be May 1 and the class of 2019 will not give a rat’s a _ _ about the MT college admission process and will move from “getting into college” mode to “being in college” mode. Then this forum will largely become the possession of the class of 2020. Crickets will chirp for the most part throughout the late spring/early summer but then it will all get interesting once again.
Meanwhile over in 2019 land, there might be a few questions about stuff that has to do with “being in college.” Regardless of whether or not you like a posting style, if you run off every veteran who is still bothering to post here you will have to work harder to get those questions answered. Your choice I guess but why spoil the pie for people that don’t think the same way you do this year and for years to come?
Now I for one didn’t even know what it is I didn’t know when I was finishing up the college hunt. Questions arose as the work shifted to the “being.” Were it not for some of the fine folks in CC land, I would not for example have: known where to tell my kid to go to avoid the long line getting a student ID early, or who was a great ENT in a city I was unfamiliar with when she came down with mono her freshman year, or which ER hospital was better than the next, or what are good sources of info for off campus apartments or… and this is a biggie… who might be able to help with contacts for future work in theatre or at a minimum, continue to help me know what it is I didn’t know so maybe, just maybe I could offer some advice to my theatre kid on things like where to find summer work, post graduate employment, equity cards etc. The list goes on but mull on that last one for just a moment.
It is College Confidential. Any chance you may have inadvertently revealed enough for things to actually not be as confidential as you might think? Is everyone absolutely sure they know who it is they are addressing directly or who might be reading indirectly? And if the answers are yes and you don’t care, do you know for sure your kid won’t care? Mine would kill me.
These are all rhetorical questions btw.
We miss you halflokum!!! Thank you for coming back to be a voice of reason in the wildernesses!!
Nice to “see” you @Halflokum. You bring up some important things for parents of applicants to think about. You were incredibly helpful when my daughter was going through this process last year and had questions about NYU. I will always be grateful. I hope to see some of that camaraderie return so that others can benefit from this site as I did. I would like to be able to help other parents.
@halflokum you are exactly right about not revealing too much info. One of the posters on here was very easy to identify (probably intentionally to promote a business). All it took was typing in her CC name and the type of business she does (that she talks about in numerous posts), and her website popped right up! Took about 5 seconds to get her full name, and from that was able to get her daughter’s name and website (which she also talks about a lot) and see multiple YouTube videos of performances.
Well put, Halfokum, from another “old” poster who has gone through this process twice.
@Dusing2 Now that you’ve done your detective work, did the identity of the poster and her D’s accomplishments not add enough credibility to the poster you are referring to? Because I sense a tone that makes me think otherwise. And really you are off base. All of our children should have the success and talent that her D has had so far. That is what successful looks like in the world of MT.
@Dusing2
*First, you completely misstate what she said. She never said you could not link to old threads. That happens a lot. What she said was that we do not allow threads that have been dormant for a long time to be bumped or to have other new posts added to them. When we see that we close them. There are exceedingly rare exceptions for some topics, but those are so rare they are not worth going into.
So by all means use the old threads for research and information, and link to them when appropriate. Just don’t add to them so that they actually become active again. Does that clarify the issue?*
I think some people need to chill. I was simply agreeing with the last paragraph of Halflocum’s post and giving an example. If you would like other examples, I can give more. While at an audition last fall I heard a mom discussing her daughter and and asked if she was ______ on CC. She was very surprised to realize that she had just said enough information at an audition for someone to figure out who she was. Also while having dinner with a friend at another audition my friend made a comment about something that had happened in the app process and I said “THAT was you!!!” There have been more. It doesn’t really take detective work.
Halflokum - you slay me! The only person who has “retired” more than you is Brett Favre! All kidding aside, people come here for help, and hopefully those of us who have been through the process are here to help them. Things change every year, so of course we may not be as up-to-date with particular school policies and the like, but the emotional roller coaster that parents must ride is the same. That roller coaster might be old, rickety and made out of wood, or it might be a sleek state-of-the-art behemoth with 56 corkscrew turns . . . either way, it’ll make you throw up.
Here’s a tiny suggestion… when the new thread was open, I think it was done to wipe the slate clean and start fresh and move on from the negativity, but it was locked. How about locking this thread and reopen the new one?
Thank you, @fallenchemist. It was very difficult to tell what college mom was referring to since the post has been deleted. I assumed we were not to bring an old thread up by discussing it and linking to it.
Are we supposed to take great pains to be anonymous? Being one of the few from California it isn’t tough to figure out. Was that me @Dusing2? I feel like anything I post here I would be willing to post if everyone know my “true identity.” Ooo. That feels vey Clark Kent! I agree with @bisouu, let’s all let this negativity go, new thread or not.
@bisouu
*I understand how that can sometimes be helpful, but there is a lot of information on this one already that is current and useful. We hate to have two contemporary threads on the same topic, even if one is closed. It is different if one is old.
As the majority of members have mentioned, the better answer is to just have everyone mind their manners on here and focus on what’s important. If you don’t like someone else’s opinion, then politely disagree by stating your opinion, not denigrating theirs or them, for any reason. If you think their facts are wrong, then state the correct facts with citations (links) to back up your position. I know the theater world is famously competitive, but jeez!! 
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Dusing2, regarding your post #2109, it is not difficult to figure out the identity of many posters on CC, particularly those who have been around awhile. It doesn’t bother me that you figured out who I am or who my kid is (after all, she is in a very public profession). I do find it rather creepy that you found a need to post that you did your simple detective work to figure out who my kid is and visited her website, etc. It is pretty easy and I have known the identity of many posters here over the years too. I just don’t post about that here, as it seems inappropriate and unfriendly and downright creepy (when it involves our kids) to do so. I know many CCers personally via Facebook, email, and have met MANY in person over the years. My daughter has been on the faculty as either a teacher, vocal coach, or accompanist for classes at two BFA in MT programs and in fact, has had some offspring of CCers as her students! Theater is a small world. She also has been on the casting end of things for various projects in NYC. Please be respectful and even if you figure out identities, there is no need to bring that up here, especially when young people are involved. Thanks for your consideration on this matter.
It would be nice for the discussion to get back to the sharing that it was meant to be about. Supportive and friendly sharing, that is, between newbies and old timers, both.