Waiting on 4: Chapman, Pepperdine, Belmont, Montclair.
Edited to add CMU (LOL, don’t even count them. Although Barbara worked with her quite a bit)
D waiting on 8. 4 of theses have already notified accepted students. 7 rejections so far. 0 acceptances. March has certainly come in like a lion. Hoping it goes our like a lamb. All you need is 1, right?
Yes, I hope you get one soon. Meanwhile, I read your post as saying you’re “waiting on 8.4” This time is so crazy I started wondering which school you would count as .4 Good fortune to all!
s waiting for Carnegie, Emerson, DePaul, Purchase, Hartt, Syracuse and Muhlenberg. Waitlist at Rider and in at Marymount. Redirected at Baldwin Wallace from BM - Music Threatre to BA Theatre (and not happy about that at all).
@GSOMTMom - I can definitely see you storming the admissions offices! I actually did it with one school, I was so mad! On this crazy roller coaster, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger!
@FionaDad . Don’t know if this offers much relief , but the Point Park offers are beginning to come out. At least that gets you a little farther in the results process.
Fingers crossed for you @HeatherG and everyone else today … maybe good news will be in the mail box today! (Or portal, or email, or voice mail …)
Not sure what this means- but this sure make it sound like NYU will release decisions on Monday - which is weeks earlier than other years
http://admissionsblog.nyu.edu/2015/03/14/friday-night-kbbq-the-home-stretch/
I don’t know. It sure would be nice to know sooner, but finalizing their decisions and those decisions being released to applicants is a different story. I hope you are right though. That is one still in the “waiting to hear” column for us.
Regarding Coastal… Last year they sent out notifications in waves. My daughter was in the last group and ended up being on the waitlist (she was later accepted). This year at the on-campus audition, Ken stated that if the kids had not heard by March 19th to contact the office via email. This year three of our students got declined on Thursday and three more are still waiting. I think we will see more movement on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Some may actually not go out until the last day. Hang in there!!! The end is almost here and we will all be talking about shopping for the new dorm rooms!!
NYU did notify their scholarship recipients this week so perhaps they will be notifying everyone prior to April 1??
Does anyone know if Elon calls the kids today prior to the results being posted on the portal?
Last year the web site changed to a Congratulations for the acting students. And snail mail followed. This was on March 14.
@Jrdirectortommy - A student who auditioned at the make up audition due to the bad weather has informed me that calls will go out this Sunday. He asked the head of the department from what I gather.
Three ideas for the directors of these programs: 1) Prescreen, prescreen, prescreen and be brutal about the cuts. Much easier to be rejected on a prescreen than to be emotionally invested and then rejected. 2) Related to number 1. everybody agree on a standard list of cuts - have them all uploaded on Acceptd and then give them access to all of them. Remember. If they are being brutal on the elimination at the prescreen level, they can spend more time on this part of the process. Then, only invite 100-200 people to audition in person – still a big enough pool to select a class of 8-45. 3) PIck a day on which offers will be made AND do it by email or portal. Phone calls are nice but do them after and snail mail is ridiculous and torturous. Everyone should find out the same day in the same way. Okay, I am adding a fourth – and this one will be controversial – create a truly unified system and limit the total number of applications for each kid. Make each student do their homework and really only pick the programs they are interested in and qualified for. Or, do it like sorority rush where everyone gets in a room and goes through student’s preferences along with the university’s preferences in a ranking way. That way you are not extending multiple offers to the same six kids, because you have already lined them up with their top choice and the system can work more efficiently. Currently, the system is set up where each side has to hedge its bets because they can’t predict the outcome. Wasteful from a time, money and emotional standpoint. Anyway, that’s what I would do if I ran the world – or at least ran this process. Just some thoughts as I wait for the mail, again, for two schools for which people have been receiving yeses and nos since last week, but because of the geographic disadvantage of living on the west coast, we are still waiting.
I would like to point out I have never known Elon to make all their calls in one day. My oldest son got his on March 17, St. Patrick’s day, after we knew they had been going out for 2 days.
I also would like to comment on Divamamacit’s previous post on streamlining this process. I think both sides, the schools and the students, want to “hedge their bets”. Many students will audition for at least one of the big reach schools–CMU, Michigan, CCM–knowing chances are slim. So you broaden your reach and add a few more, plus a sure safety option, and hope for the best. It is hard to watch your child have their heart set on a school and not get in, but this can happen to ANY student applying to college today. If you are lucky enough to have some options, then most families are going to start checking the finances. This is another reason to “hedge your bets”. If at all possible, you do not want to graduate with a bunch of debt because it is extremely hard to start out in this profession and start having to pay those loans back.
From a school’s perspective, if you use prescreens to narrow your choices too much you may it difficult to come up with a class. Their are some kids who may get accepted to four or five big name schools who will then do their best to woo this student they see as a future “star”, not unlike colleges pursuing athletes for their programs. But that child can only choose ONE to attend, so the other schools are left with a hole in their roster they may find difficult to fill if they kept a tight rein on prescreens.
I highly doubt anyone predicts having more than 2-3 choices. Everyone hopes they will get to choose, but knowing this game is very competitive you have to cast your net wide. I’d be willing to bet that almost every family represented on CC has been told at least once – “your S/D will have their pick of schools!!” When in reality, only a few represented here actually appear to have that. Not to mention finances…
… a 5th.
Don’t require an application to the college until they’ve been accepted to the program. (But do post bare minimum academic stats to gain entrance to the university.)
I have to stop myself from adding up the application costs + sending standardized test costs or I’ll have a coronary on what we’ve spent so far.
Oooo. I just re-read my earlier rant. I really don’t mean to sound so bitter. It has just been an exceedingly long week of waiting for the phone to ring and envelopes (big or large) to arrive! Onward!
Just overheard in our house:
Husband: Don’t you think you should’ve taken more dance classes?
D: DAAAAADDDD!! It’s a little too late now dontcha think?