@singerdancermom, here is the waitlist, deferral, etc thread from last year to get an idea of when people heard about being accepted from the waitlist
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18479836#Comment_18479836
@singerdancermom there is a wait list thread for this year too that @destiny95 created
@singerdancermom …and as you can see, someone was already accepted off one of those waitlists.
My D got a yes from NYU yesterday and she’s going. We didn’t have sticker shock - we knew the price going into this. It will pinch us a bit to send her there but, for us, it’s worth it.
@MTMom98 Thank you! I didn’t know about that thread. 
@destiny95 was taken off a waitlist and given an admission- I think it was earlier this week/end of last? I have also heard of people being released from waitlists, and not admitted. But I agree with the above posters that most movement won’t happen till after May 1st.
Yes correct. I believe it is all in the timing of when kids decline those offers then the schools can decide who they want to take off the WL.
@MTDadandProud - if anyone accepted at NYU has so called “sticker shock” they didn’t do their due diligence. NYU doesn’t try to hide the cost, nor do they promise financial aide they don’t deliver. I’ll say it for the umpteenth time- anyone who thinks it’s too expensive - which is a perfectly fine opinion- shouldn’t apply there.
That awkward moment when your Penn State portal never changed…
@toowonderful I think @MTDadandProud was just kidding!!
@singerdancermom - we were on 2 WL my D’s year - and she had resolution (one admit/one reject) before May 1 - so it is possible to hear before May 1 - but there are many many more examples where resolution comes after May 1 - I’m guessing with 5 schools - you may have resolution from some before May 1 - and not others.
@destiny95 My S Ithaca portal never changed (or it changed after he stopped checking). He neither admitted nor waitlisted so we figured it was a computer glitch.
Im waitlisted at my top two schools, one of them told me they will let me know sometime mid to late April. The other said after May 1st.
Yes I’m thinking @MTDadandProud was just kidding about the sticker shock NYU comment @toowonderful . I would think if your kid attends a school that costs that much you would be used to those comments. They must occur all the time as I think you stated before…
I guess I’ll refrain from the attempted humor. Certainly didn’t mean to offend anyone. Have an awesome weekend everyone!
Our kids are Musical Theatre Majors. For those of us who have survived this process, that statement alone should have resulted in us having “thick skins” by now. Also, written communication does now allow for tone or body language so it is more easy for folks to read insult where none was intended.
@theaterwork and @MTDadandProud - it’s not that I don’t get the joke. But let me ask you this- when someone hears your kid is (or wants to be) an MT major and comes back with “I hope they like being a waiter” do you actually laugh? Or do you have a inner cringe/flash of annoyance? If you don’t you’re a better person than I am. Maybe my phrasing in my earlier post was off. Let me try again. I guess I would equate someone with “sticker shock” after applying/auditioning/being accepted to NYU like someone who purchase an apartment on the top floor of a skyscraper, and then was “shocked” that it was so high up. Didn’t you know that before you started?
And we were doing so well this year…
We did not apply to NYU for that very reason. Also, if the OP got 50K in aid from Vassar/Sarah Lawrence, her family has need. Those schools don’t award merit aid.
@toowonderful Yeah I get that response from people who don’t get the whole MT thing & especially now that my D is a junior and they know college is looming. It used to really annoy the crap out of me but then I started putting myself in that persons shoes and figured 1) they don’t know anything about MT and all the jobs your kid can get with that degree 2) their kid might be going to school for something totally foreign to me & I am completely clueless about. So… I just smile and say “she will aim for a performance based job and see what happens”…you’ll never get past the whole waitress thing. It’s such an actor stereotype.
I agree if you don’t know the price of NYU before you apply and your kid gets in & you are shocked by the cost then you’re a dunce… or just thought an elf was going to give you a wad of cash for 4 years…
We might just agree on something yet @toowonderful :)>-