@Calliene (post #3417) I agree with you. And it is rather a moot point anyway because CC never limits who can participate on any thread on any of its many forums. It’s an open forum. People can choose to participate or not and can ignore posts that disinterest them or even put certain members on “ignore” if they wish.
Thanks, @soozievt! That’s good to keep in mind. Yes, @stage2nature is our first child. She and my next child will only have 1 overlapping year, if D2 doesn’t graduate early or take a gap year.
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Did I see Webster was sending emails?
On that note…
Maybe that will sweeten up a few things around here. Back to the sharing, and particularly the venting!
And for many of us, Spring has sprung. May acceptances and pots of gold be bustin’ out all over.
When all of D’s FA packages arrive, I am going to sit down to look at them while drinking Coffee ~O) and eathing donuts (sorry, no emoji those)! I think it only right to do that? Either that or a Margarita & chips and queso!
If they look anything like my D’s financial aid letters, I’d opt for the Margarita and skip the chips and queso cause I can’t afford it!
Is anyone else still waiting to hear from Hartt?
I get to bust out the coffee and help my D’s friend sort his 8 BFA acceptances! My D invited him to our house on Friday to make a monster pro/con list. I’m really looking forward to talking through all the options and iterations as Switzerland :-).
@limbo2019 we had one student that got an acceptance email earlier today (I was the one that posted in the Webster thread so this is not a different person)… we have four other students that have not yet (to our knowledge) received anything from them.
@limbo2019 and @NAtlantaStudio, I know of at least one other besides the one that was mentioned here on CC that has been accepted for MT at Webster.
@tramsmom - you make a valid point. I better go during happy hour too! 
After the excitement of the acceptances, comes the realization for many of us of “oh my God, now I’m gonna have to find a way to pay for all this!”
@-)
I wonder, Can one ever REALLY be “Switzerland” about schools once you have been through the process? At least about the schools that you (or your kid) auditioned for? My warmest feelings towards programs are for the ones where my kid was accepted, and there is some negative feeling towards some of the schools that did not. Do others feel that way- or is it just me? I wonder if I could give truly neutral advice about a school that I thought was a “fit” for my kid, and they said no. Now I will freely admit I feel different ways about individual schools. I have zero CMU resentment - it’s such a lottery, they were so nice etc. But there are programs that I liked well enough to have on my kid’s audition list last year- and would have trouble finding something positive to say to an accepted student this year. Am I alone in the universe?
@toowonderful I think that is natural. There are a number of programs that rejected my kid that I believe are still great for various reasons and would recommend to others, but a few that I wasn’t happy with the way the school’s process (or mishandling of the process) went. Those few definitely lost some cachet for me.
There’s only one school that I have serious negativity towards …
It’s where my kid broke her foot. It’s not that she broke her foot - it was their attitude about the whole mess. Ugh.
^^I make a living sorting and helping to navigate options for other people. I have loads of “Switzerland” experience and can certainly assist in the making of a great comparison list. I told my D I won’t say what I would do if I were in his shoes (and what sweet shoes indeed), but I will help him lay out the pros and cons. I think perusing these forums could be a great way to start.
@toowonderful - I bet it’s totally natural for many people to harbor ill feelings toward schools that either redirect or reject their kids, or to which they chose not to apply. It’s probably also natural to feel like an expert on schools they visited, and particularly on those to which their child was admitted but at which they did not matriculate.
The reality is that in general only folks whose own kids attend a school or who teach there, or to a lesser extent those who attend a summer program at the school, have deep firsthand knowledge of what the school is about, and in schools like our D’s where virtually every student creates a very singular curriculum and experience even that is subjective. And of course everyone thinks the car they bought is the very best model, especially when they’re still paying for it. 
We all have opinions about schools, but when possible I try to limit myself to sharing my own kids’ experiences since that’s as much as I really know, which is why I find it humorous when folks complain that many people on CC always talk about one school. In reality, that’s all that most people will really have much firsthand knowledge to offer about, beyond the mechanics of applying and auditioning.
The exceptions are folks who coach kids, offer college counseling and/or work in the industry.