@BeBop1 “See you in the fall” ??? That’s awful.
@letmesingforyou9 I have to tell you that I am NOT very happy with Pace’s Performing Arts program. The dance department has NO MONEY! I just learned that the seniors are not going to have a piece choreographed for them to perform in the show like they have every year because they can’t afford a guest choreographer. I am besides myself at this point. My D17 is auditioning in Feb but I really don’t want her there. I’m an alum and I’ve been a donor for a good 15 years. Once my D was accepted I started funneling my yearly donation from the business department to the dance department. However after two years of constantly being upset that my D was getting no opportunities I stopped giving to them and started once again giving to the business school (my alma mater). If they were smart and needed money that badly they wouldn’t have pissed off a donor! So dumb! And then after the Senior choreography show they ask for people to donate so they can put on next years show! Several parents were talking and couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t just sell the DVD of the performance to make money. We all would have bought it! My D21 has not had many opportunities there to perform…any she is following the performance track! They only have two shows per year and then a senior choreography show where the seniors in the choreography track cast their own pieces. Thank God for that show otherwise I would have seen her in four dances over four years. And when I say four dances I mean there have been shows where she was not cast at all and other shows where she was cast in only one number while others were cast in multiple pieces. And one year she was cast in the same exact dance for both the fall and spring shows and that was it! Now I can’t say for sure if the money situation is the same for Dance as it is for MT or Acting but it all falls under the same department so I would say it does. Sour grapes? Perhaps! But I’m paying a hell of a lot of money for this and my D is getting no opportunities and the program is poorly run so I think I have a right to have sour grapes!
@KarenK99 I remember about 3 years ago similar thread on this subject or a very closely related one as far as the single parent and always a single parent issue goes. As I recall there was some good advice offered. It was either here or over in the theatre major forum and I think @bisouu was involved and perhaps can give you some advice or will remember the thread. Or maybe @EmsDad with his mad search skills could help find it for you.
Hang in. There is an answer to how to handle it.
@BeBop1 - there was a great thread from a few years ago with some stories along the same lines…
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1280638-thinking-you-bombed-but-getting-in-anyway-thinking-you-rocked-and-getting-rejected.html
@KarenK99, it’s confusing. And you can’t be the only person to be the only parent of a child. I’m sure @bissou has wisdom on this may want to chime in.
You can call FAFSA up with questions. I’ve found them to be actually helpful.
But I’m pretty sure what they mean is:
- Are the student's parents married to each other? Select "No" if the parents are divorced or separated from each other.
I'd think it would have to be no, because you are not married.
They ask this to get a sense of the financial situation. If you're divorced or separated, you're possibly getting child support/alimony, and also you'd have two homes, not one. But I'm not sure about this one. - Are the student's biological or adoptive parents unmarried and living together? No (they mean you, not her birth parents). They ask this question to see if there are two parents whose finances they must take into account, even though they're not married.
Good luck! I think they should be clearer and acknowledge there are possibly other situations, such as your own.
@KarenK99, if your daughter applied to a school that requires a CSS Profile, that’ll be a whole 'nother experience. Having to send proof that there was no non-custodial parent was…interesting. If you encounter that and want to gripe or just gripe in general, feel free to PM me.
@KarenK99 I put down “sperm donor” so problem solved. 
@bisouu, haha, if they had a “love” button, I’d press that!
@CSOMTMom, CSS profile is the pits. It takes me days to fill out, even though other than being divorced, my situation is pretty typical. I can only imagine what you had to go through!
I think there should be a “none of your farm business” option!
No, we haven’t done a CSS Profile - something to look forward to! It’s not that I can’t manage my way through the form, I’m just amazed that the choices are so few…
Well, in my case, my daughter is adopted. The snarkiest I get is when someone asks, “Oh, is her father Chinese,” and I say, “I don’t know. Probably.”
If your child is adopted she is your child and it is your marital status on forms and your economic status that matters as you are the parent(s). Her/his history prior to your becoming her legal parent has no meaning. We have an adopted child that went through this process,she was also an older child adoptee and from another country. On most forms you can opt out on too intrusive of questions:) For married couples who have divorced or parents where there was never a legal binding document I would check with an attorney on how to deal with. That is a legal issue.
Anyone else’s child get excited when they received a message from Elon this morning, only to say that prescreen decisions will be released January 18th?? Ughhhh…
@nodaybut2daymom UGH! I was really hoping that Elon was gonna under-promise and over-deliver, re that 1/18 date. We don’t even have far to travel, but it’s so hard to plan for other February auditions, with that one up in the air.
hugs to everyone who still needs to finalize - that sort of thing throws my compulsive need to plan for a major loop!
Trying to look at it now. If you pass the prescreen have you academically passed? Hate to re-arrange get plane tickets , fly there then not get in academically. We already have several academic acceptances plus passed all the prescreens so when we book the flight, the room, the coach, ext. I feel there is a reasonable chance.
@musicmama123 my D received her academic acceptance to Elon about a week ago, so they are separate.
Ok thanks! When did she put it in? We were later
@musicmama123 EARLY. Late September. I regret that she didn’t submit prescreen for the 11/4 audition date.