Good to hear…My fingers (and toes) are crossed for you @NewEngMTMom !
@MomOfMTgurl - As a mom of a D, I am with you and I am so sorry it isn’t what your D wants. This is such a hard business for girls. A vocal coach at CMU told us last year “It’s tough to be a white girl in musical theater right now!” (He was just warning us of the challenges we faced going to audition for college in Musical Theater - probably the reason she didn’t want to audition for that school)
But don’t knock the Acting program. I went to college as a Musical Theater major 20+ years ago - and quickly changed to an Acting major, since I discovered it was my forte. I was still able to take voice and dance. Still, some colleges allow you to take dance in place of the stage movement class that the Acting majors have to take - and you can take voice as an elective. You can probably call the college and find out if these things can be offered/elected in the BFA acting program.
Best of luck to you and your daughter!
@MTMOM17 We are still waiting on two schools: Texas Tech and Webster. We are trying to work on decisions but it is hard with unknowns.My D has a WL too but we expect that will hold out to the bitter end.
No info yet on Wagner, but I’ll post if we hear anything!
Thank you for responding @belleforbroadway.
I’m surprised so many of us have schools we still haven’t heard from. I can’t believe you have 2!
My D is WL at one school and an alternative at another but I think she’s getting close to making a decision!
We still haven’t heard from Pace or Molloy/Cap21? I know others are waiting on Molloy but what about Pace? Should I call them?
@JayCee17 Yes, call Pace. We were told at auditions if you haven’t heard by April 1st, to get in touch with them.
Are the schools that people are still waiting to hear from ones that have rolling admissions? LIU (who we are waiting on) told me that they do. I didn’t realize that. And as I mentioned earlier, they never received the transcript my D sent them, so I have to say again … if you’re waiting to hear from someplace, CALL THEM. We wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t called and we would have missed our last option.
And thank you to fellow parents who are crossing their fingers for us. I have a good feeling, too. So many odd little things have conspired to point her to this school even though it wasn’t on her list originally. I feel like the universe wants her there.
@cluelessandtired, my D is a junior MT. Fire away with questions or PM me.
Same sadness at our house. all decisions are in and D is a blonde haired blue eyed girl who gets every lead in our area but only got into two safety schools. She feels she has no worth. I do not know how to console her. I keep trying to tell her it does not mean she is not talented but she was not the right fit for those schools. I see people on here who get into several schools and I wonder what we did wrong. It makes me so sad for her, it feels unjust. It should not be harder to get into an MT program than medical school. Having a bad day, just venting. 
@reluctantMTmom I’m so sorry to hear your D only got into two safety schools
@reluctantMTmom ugh … I hate these stories. My heart hurts for you and your girl. But it’s not over … there are still schools that are either doing in person auditions or video auditions. There’s stilll hope!!
@reluctantMTmom I hear you. What are these girls who are getting into multiple schools doing differently? I assume most of our kids are very talented and have trained for years. Is it because my D didn’t use a coach or go to a performing arts school? Are these other girls just more polished? Have better monologues/songs? Have a special look? I just assumed that some of these schools would want raw talent. Not putting down anyone who used a coach or who goes to a performing arts school. We live in a very competitive area where everyone has done over 40 shows and have been dancing and singing since they were 4. How are these talented kids not getting into programs? I guess it is just numbers. Supply and demand. But how do some girls get 4-5 offers and others none? What did we do wrong? Do we need more programs/teachers? I think it is really scary how professional these kids already are before they even go to college. When I was 18, I was clueless. It is very frustrating. My D was lucky to finally get into one BFA program but I had some back up plans. If you want to chat, PM me. Do these safety schools enable your D to study musical theatre or concentrate in voice, acting, dance?
Thanks @fancytheatrekid I am boggled by it so much. We did not use a coach (did not know they had them) But she has taken dance acting and voice for awhile. We were a little naive about the process. I really had no idea it would be this hard. She has other friends she studied in NY with who got into only one school as well. This one poor friend was in the Parkland shooting so she has even more to overcome. I guess we move on to picking a school. @KaMaMom She is so done with the process she does not want to audition anymore at this point. I am sure I am not the only parent struggling right now…
Sending many of you wishes for a last minute awesome acceptance story! We have been in your shoes-it’s tough.
It is tough for boys too. My S is a tall skinny blue-eyed brunette and he had a really tough time. Saw many other boys at the auditions who looked just like him. One kid that is his type got in every school he applied to. I think I am starting to realize that it could have been his grades that was the final cut. He only has a 3.2 GPA. We had a coach and he is always the lead in the school musicals and yet was getting deferred to the Acting major and then rejected. We do have a nice option and a great WL but he still feels bad as he applied to 23 programs. Ugh, this was a tough process for sure. I feel for everyone out there going through this.
@reluctantMTmom - please don’t beat yourself up about not using a coach. This issue seems to come up every year! Having a coach does not guarantee acceptance to any MT program. If I knew what did guarantee acceptance, I would quit my day job and make a fortune by sharing my knowledge … in fact, we all would!
I’m sorry so many have kiddos struggling on getting into programs.
I know it’s easy to second guess monologues and song choices, headshots, audition clothes, coach or no coach… at the end of the day honestly it’s just luck of the draw.
We were told last year by a dean of one of the “Dream” schools he saw as many as 600 kids in a day during auditions. It’s an overwhelming process for everyone involved.
It is overwhelming/ and these programs just can’t take the amount of kids wishing to get in.
Don’t let not getting into a four year college squash your child’s dream.
There are many routes they can take- so have a good cry, wash off the tears and go slay the audition dragon and chase that dream! There are amazing studios your child can go to NY and study at. It’s just about doing the homework and finding what will work.
Y’all can do it!
Re song/monologue choice: I’m not even convinced that that matters all that much. In 2014, D kept changing her songs with every “no” or “redirect.” Finally, for her last audition at Molloy/CAP21, she sang “As We Stumble Along” from the Drowsy Chaperone - she played The Chaperone junior year in HS. Now, 4 years later, she says, “what was I thinking? That was not an age-appropriate song at all!!!” Replied Mama Bear: “it showed off your range at the time, and you knocked it out of the park. And by the way, nobody else did it. And another by the way, it got you an acceptance.” So you just never know. The auditors are looking for something, and darned if we know what it is.
@fancytheatrekid perhaps everything you have said. My son attends a performing arts school and I’m assuming raw talent because we did not know anything about performing arts except that I enjoyed plays (more than musicals) and we had very little background in the arts prior to get into high school (except for my symphony stint).
During an open house, several parents Proudly spoke of their children having agents and have been in productions and wanted to know how it would work if their child needed to audition during school hours. They received a response of “if your kid is already in the business and what appears to be extremely polished, why are you here?” and they also said that if they missed 10 days from school, their grades would suffer just like any other kid in the educational system.
What I have heard (as I do not know) that many of these schools do NOT want anyone so polished that they really don’t feel as if their school could provide them much of anything (and I’m totally against mentioning that you have an agent on a resume for college or you’ve been in movies etc… its’ always a risk but there’s nothing wrong with mentioning it during an interview)
Maybe a struggle here or there, beating the pavement a bit.
my son had 5 callbacks prior to get into his HS. It was the craziest thing I had ever encountered but now that we have 1.5 months left, I get it. I get the callbacks, contrasting monologues, the forever waiting and the rejections. most of his classmates take it all in stride almost joking sarcastically about it. I thought being WL for Juilliard would’ve been a huge stay in his room for days type of sting, he got right up and said yea, it did sting for a few hours. He shook it off and said that there has to be something even greater for him down the pipeline because that is how all of this works.
He has to believe something better is waiting and it will make sense as to why it did(or did not) work out
Even the most prestigious schools may relay on talent plus $$. can you afford for your kid to attend the school with very little aid? or if 1 kid needs almost a full ride, they may be able to help fund 2 kids who only need a little scholarship $$ so they have 2 kids in that they wanted instead of 1 kid that they wanted.
They may have their productions for the next 4 years already mapped out and know exactly how many blonds, minorities and brunettes that are needed.
I’m surprised about the acceptance from some of our yes schools because history shows that many of their students are quirky or has this Funny/ artsy/ Whimsical aura about them. My kid is none of this but if that is what a school is looking for, we’re good and we get it. It’s no different than casting agents posting jobs for specific types.
My kid isn’t a singer and although he auditioned for CMU… he was waitlisted and eventually heard that they were looking for BFA Actors who can sing … That’s not him. He probably wouldn’t be a good fit for them and his feelings about them are mutual (regardless of the training)
I wouldn’t discount the safety schools either. If the director or teachers have connections, that may be all that you need to make it