If you are a sure no you will hear soon after audition (maybe 2 weeks or so). If you are still in the mix you could hear any time - no connection to when you auditioned.
Has anyone heard from Ball State?
Wondering if their online portal will reflect acceptance/denial ā¦ hmmmm ā¦
@KaMaMomā ā I heard that they wonāt be making calls until next week at the earliest. They are in NYC for their Senior Showcase and I think I heard that it is their spring break, too. This was from a friend whose D auditioned at the last campus audition.
I still have not heard from Point Park - does anyone know what they usually do?
Has anyone heard from Belmont for Musical Theater?
Literally 31 minutes after I posted, the denial from BSU showed up via email.
Oh, I am so sorry KaMaMom! Hang in there! My D did have a friend who received a no last week. I was focused on the yeses.
I was just thinking about the mercy rule in baseball. Once you get so many rejections, shouldnāt they just call the game?
@KaMaMom and everyoneā¦itās gonna happen, and we hurt for our kids. I do believe with all my heart that it all works out in the end, and they wind up where they are meant to be. Love, hugs and kisses to you all!
@theimmortalfish My S auditioned in November and got notified via snail mail. The letter was dated January 15.
Hang in thereā¦something will work out for all of your kids. It only takes one! Thereās a lot left to go in this process with notifications.
@Divamamacita - there was a time last year when I thought the game had been called on my D. One year to the day after her most devastating rejection, she shared the stage with Broadway performers and even had a solo. Believe me, it will work out. Have faith!
@EastchesterMomā ā I do! The waiting just stinks. Hang in there everyone. It should be over in another month or so!
Eh.
Not too distraught ā¦ yet!
If this is her chosen career path, these noās are just practice for the real world. Skin tougheners. 
@mtmamabear my S received a letter from Belmont yesterday, opened it anticipating MT info, but it was scholarship information. Website said decisions will be made 1st of March. Nothing in the mail today. Does anyone know how they notified in the past? Phone call, email, snail mail?
Do those denial emails tend to trickle out or sent all in one fell swoop? Or more likely, itās anyoneās guess?
@Divamamacitaā, Iām with you on the mercy rule like in baseball! Or maybe we could cry āUncleā!
@mamaoffive ā¦ if youāre talking about BSU, I know of 2 kids who received denials at roughly the time time today.
My daughter was third in her class at a prestigious private arts school (scholarship), got every academic, community and artistic award under the sun, was selected by faculty to speak at graduation but didnāt get into 6 out of her 7 schools she applied to. However, that one school was just too expensive for us because they didnāt give money for academic achievement and have two others in college. She didnāt have any back up schools because her plan was to take a gap year if she couldnāt go. This plan sounded good to her until it actually had to happen, then she was embarrassed but determined to make the best of it. She moved to Chicago at the end of August, found a two girls in a great neighborhood from a University who needed a third roommate, got a fulltime daytime nanny job (which pays generously) and began her gap year. She was able to audition and/or interview to get into advanced classes at 2 theatre companies, was able to take an incredible Shakespeare class (which helped with Unifieds), takes voice lessons with a fantastic teacher at a local arts college, dance lessons through Hubbard Street and just finished the advanced actors intensive at Second City. She also started auditioning for roles (no agent) through on line calls and in December she was offered a part in a new start up musical but had to decline because she just landed the understudy of a wonderful part in a Play that just opened. (Every critic so far has recommended or highly recommended it and she is thrilled to be part of this production, even as an understudy}. The funny thing is that the director and cast just found out on opening night that she was only 18; everyone just assumed she was already out of college. also has several āirons in the fireā because of the connections she has made this year. While she still considers this whole process ānerve-rackingā, she has already had one acceptance (which was a rare early one for that school), 2 rejections and one wait list (short one I believe) at one of her favorite schools. She is waiting to hear from 4 more. I have purposely left out many names of places because she would not have wanted me to share this much.The point is, she would never change the way things happened and so grateful that they happened the way they did.
Thank you so much for this, @13bingo. My D is in the midst of this for the first time and your post helps to put things in perspective.