<p>So happy to see all these successful outcomes. Now if only we knew who these kids were so we could look forward to seeing their names on playbills, movie credits, etc. </p>
<p>Congrats Josh! If my D ends up there too you guys can carpool back home on holidays! </p>
<p>Congratulations, @josh703! Enjoy the rest of your senior year! @KellyLJ1, my D (history major) fell in love with CoC and is planning to apply to their Historic Preservation MFA. She was accepted to CoC for her undergrad but because of a personal crisis was unable to attend. CoC is a lovely college in a wonderful town!</p>
<p>My daughter was interested in BA programs or a BFA program with the flexibility for other studies.</p>
<p>Applied (auditioned programs:) Boston University, Fordham
Applied (non-auditioned programs:) University of Minn, UNC Chapel Hill, Brown University, USC</p>
<p>Accepted: Brown (ED) and U. of Minn (Rolling) </p>
<p>Withdrew: All other applications.</p>
<p>Final Decision: Brown - BA Theater and Performance Studies</p>
<p>Summer programs: She attended Brown TheatreBridge, a six week theatre intensive program, the summer after her sophomore year.</p>
<p>High School: did not attend a performing arts high school, but does attend a private high school with a good theater program and participated in local community and professional theatre. </p>
<p>She visited a number of colleges starting the summer after her sophomore year. For each visit she tried to meet with the theatre dept., attend a theatre or dance class and attend a student play when possible. Schools she visited included Conn College, Yale, Brown, UNC, UVA, W&M, Amherst, Smith, Williams, Northwestern, Fordham, NYU Tisch, Barnard, Columbia and Bard. </p>
<p>She wanted to tour Skidmore’s department, but they would only commit to “maybe we can show you around depending on how the day goes”, so we couldn’t risk a trip. Also, Vassar would not return calls and emails so we passed on visiting. Yale would not accommodate a department tour, but she did visit and took the standard campus tour. </p>
<p>Her favorite schools were Brown, NU, Fordham and Williams. Had she not gotten in to Brown she would have also applied to NU and Williams and probably Barnard. She felt, logically, NU was the best choice for her, but emotionally she really fell in love with Brown. She really liked the two Brown theatre students who were her RA’s at Brown TheatreBridge and the Brown Theatre profs. She feels she’ll really be challenged and happy there. This year has been a dream come true for her. She worked really hard and got in to her top choice college early and got the lead in her high school musical. It makes me shudder to think how easily things could have not gone her way. One missed note in the HS audition or had the Brown adcom had indigestion the day he reviewed her file,and the year might have been quite different.</p>
<p>arwarw, So happy for her and you!! What a wonderful journey.</p>
<p>Applied to: Juilliard, Carnegie Mellon, Guildhall, UCLA, CalArts, USC, NYU, Fordham, the New School, Manhattan Marymount, Loyola Marymount; EA-- Chapman and Whittier;</p>
<p>Prescreens: The New School;</p>
<p>Accepted: The New School, MMC, LMU, Whittier; </p>
<p>Wait-list: NYU;</p>
<p>Coach: yes, MTCA coach, once a week since September of senior year; the coach helped not only to pick monologues and work on them but guided through the whole audition process;</p>
<p>Summer programs: none (I wish she had attended one of them!); </p>
<p>High School: performing arts HS since sophomore year, it was the basis for my D to even try get into the BFA theater programs;</p>
<p>Final decision: the New School;</p>
<p>My D was sure she wanted a BFA or a BFA-like BA. I told her that she has to apply to at least one safety and she picked Whittier, mostly because of its location (my D’s dream was to go to LA). She told me she may still decide to take a gap year if she isn’t accepted to a BFA program because she only wanted a rigorous acting program. She did not visit LMU, struggled with turning it down a little bit but finally told me-- I consider this school for a wrong reason, for location. She auditioned at campuses for both MMC and TNS and the choice was easy for her-- she felt like at home at TNS and I feel like the school really liked her back! 
So, yesterday my D made the enrollment deposit, yay! I asked her about Tisch, she told me she’d wait for their decision and then will talk about it. Right now she thinks she still prefers TNS.</p>
<p>This is my D’s journey:</p>
<p>Applied to: AADA (Acting), University of the Arts (BFA Acting), Cornish College of the Arts (BFA Acting), University of Colorado-Boulder (non-audition BA), Metropolitan State College of Denver (non-audition BA), Montclair State University (BFA Acting), University of Northern Colorado (BA Acting), Pace University (BFA Acting, BFA FTVC, BA Acting), Roosevelt University (BFA Acting)</p>
<p>Prescreens: Pace (passed)</p>
<p>Accepted to: All nine (academically, at least)</p>
<p>Rejected from: Montclair, Pace</p>
<p>Wait-listed at: University of Northern Colorado (then accepted)</p>
<p>Final Decision: University of Northern Colorado (BA Acting)</p>
<p>Coach: worked with her high school drama teacher</p>
<p>Summer Programs: none</p>
<p>High school: Just your average public school. Not much money, almost everything is old and shabby, nothing is fancy. The drama department typically stages one full-length play and one musical per year. They offer classes in Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced or “Comprehensive” drama, and a Children’s Theatre class. The first semester Children’s Theatre class writes and performs two short plays (the first is toured to local elementary schools) and the Advanced Drama class puts on three evenings of one act plays (most are skits rather than actual plays) over the course of the second semester. There are also extra-curricular short and long-form improv teams. They perform approximately 4-6 times per year. My D has been on the long-form sketch comedy team for three years.</p>
<p>I didn’t feel comfortable posting any of her acceptances until she had heard from every school on her list (didn’t want to jinx things, I guess) and the last letter finally arrived this past Saturday. We had been to an accepted students day at Northern Colorado the week before and while there she was told she’d made it off the waitlist and that written confirmation would follow. We couldn’t allow ourselves to believe it was true until she actually had the letter in hand.</p>
<p>Northern Colorado (oh heck, from now on I’m just going to shorten it to UNCO–that’s what we locals call it) has long been one of her favorite schools. It’s about an hour from home. She’s been on campus many times over the last four years and loves the school and the theatre program. She’s stayed in the dorms, eaten in the dining halls, taken acting workshops, has seen several shows, AND it’s one of probably only two schools on her list that we realistically have even a ghost of a chance of being able to afford, so her acceptance was a dream come true.</p>
<p>Pace had also been at the top of her list for a long time. For a while, she became one of those kids who was convinced she had to go to college in NYC if she was going to make a go of this, no matter how many times I trotted out the “It doesn’t matter where you get your training, it’s the training itself that counts” line. Going to NY Unifieds and spending four days in the city was the best thing that could have happened to her. She had only been to New York once before, a couple of years ago, and then only for a day trip. This time she got to experience more of what it would be like to live there–the endless walking, navigating the subway, the fast-paced intensity that is New York City. She got to audition on campus at Pace–and found she didn’t like it as much as she thought she would. She realized that even though she loves NYC and can still see herself there someday, that time is not necessarily now. Still, I could tell the rejection from Pace, when it arrived, hurt a little. Being turned down by Montclair, on the other hand, didn’t bother her at all because she said it was a school <em>I</em> wanted her to apply to.</p>
<p>In the meantime, a new favorite had emerged–Roosevelt. She liked the curriculum and loved the thought of being near such an active improv scene. Her improv coach is planning to move to Chicago in the near future and the thought of having him there was appealing as well. If money wasn’t an issue, she would have seriously considered going to Roosevelt. She’s never been to Chicago though, so of course we would have had to visit first to see how she liked that city.</p>
<p>I can’t believe this part is finally over! This whole process has been exciting at times, but mostly nerve-wracking and often downright terrifying. I feel as if I haven’t breathed properly in months–fortunately, everything turned out better than I had dared to hope and I couldn’t be happier for my D. :)</p>
<p>That’s wonderful. I think you’re right about the training. Chicago will still be there when she graduates. There are also summer classes at Second City if that’s a possibility.</p>
<p>No big surprises here! My daughter’s journey…</p>
<p>Applied to: University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (BFA Dramatic Performance), Elon University (BFA Acting), Illinois Wesleyan (BFA Acting), University of Minnesota (BFA Guthrie Actor Training Program), USC (BFA Acting), NYU (BFA Acting), Emerson (BFA Acting) and Oberlin College and Skidmore College as safety non-audition schools.</p>
<p>Prescreen: Illinois Wesleyan (passed)</p>
<p>Call back from U of M BFA Guthrie Program</p>
<p>Withdrew from U of M BFA Guthrie Program before Call Back weekend and withdrew from USC, NYU, and Emerson before Chicago Unifieds</p>
<p>Accepted to: CCM (BFA Dramatic Performance), Elon (BFA Acting), and Illinois Wesleyan (BFA Acting) and Oberlin College and Skidmore College</p>
<p>Final Decision: University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (BFA Dramatic Performance) </p>
<p>Acting Coach for monologues: Yes</p>
<p>Voice: Macphail School of Music 4 years</p>
<p>Dance: Basic Ballet and MT</p>
<p>Summer Programs: Guthrie Theater HS Project Shakespeare (Ken Washington, Andrew Wade, Marcella Lorca, Andrea Tutt), Guthrie Camps (Broadway Bound, Shakespeare), Chanhassen Dinner Theater Musical Theater Intensive (2 years) Master Classes: Natalie Weiss, Linda Eder, Ben Gunderson</p>
<p>High School: Independent School, but not a performance based HS. Extremely supportive and amazing Director!</p>
<p>My daughter and I visited Elon, CCM, and Illinois Wesleyan her junior year. We spent a few days at each one and coincided the visits with theater performances at each. She loved all of their programs for different reasons. She applied early action to Elon and we auditioned on campus Nov. 1st. She was accepted EA academically and into the program March 14th. The U of M Guthrie program is excellent, but she wanted to go away from home. Illinois Wesleyan has great faculty and the best admissions counselor ever!!! Go Bob! I wanted her to audition on campus at CCM instead of Unifieds, because I wanted her to have more time to see kids and get an even better feel of their program because I could tell she was falling in love. She auditioned on Jan. 11th and was accepted on Jan. 15th. She withdrew from the others except the U of M Guthrie program and Illinois Wesleyan both of which were scheduled on campus, but YIPPEEE! saved some $ by cancelling Unifieds trip (hotel was booked last year as soon as dates were announced, but I had not made plane reservations…so I just cancelled hotel room). We went back for one more visit to CCM, she sat in on an Acting class, a master class and saw the Senior Acting Showcase. The freshman kids embraced her (as did everyone), k. Jenny Jones has been awesome with her e-mail exchanges with my daughter, she saw the dorm she will be living in, she is beyond connected through the facebook page for MT and Acting Class of 2018 and has a roommate! We made the deposit today. She is overjoyed and our experience was an awesome one. The friends I have made on CC are so special and I will think of everyone every time I see a donut. A heartfelt thank you to everyone! And BAL to all our kids!<br>
^:)^ </p>
<p>This has been my S’s journey</p>
<p>MY son originally was all in for a auditioned BFA program. Had all app’s in and audiions scheduled. About around October he started to question the BFA route and after heavy soul searching he decided against the BFA.</p>
<p>Appiled: Kenyon College- BA in theater, Univ. of Minn, Southern Oregon, College of Charleston, College of Wooster, Occidental College, Whitman College, BU ( BFA), USC ( BFA), NU, Vassar. Conn. College Skidmore, Muhlenberg, CMU, UNCSA, and a few more I think that I can’t remember.</p>
<p>Accepted: Kenyon-ED, U MInn( BA) with a big merit scholarship and honors college, Southern Oregon U, ( BFA), College of Charleston- BA with scholarship and honors college, College of Wooster-BA with top academic scholarship.</p>
<p>No rejections</p>
<p>Final Destiation: Kenyon College </p>
<p>Withdrew all other app’s and audiions scheduled</p>
<p>Summer Programs: Old Globe’s Shakespeare Intensve, California State Summer School for the Arts, Stratford Shakespeare Intensive, Northwestern Cherubs. Also produced and acted in a play at Edinburough Fringe Festival.</p>
<p>High School: Top private prep school that was VERY rigorous. To do all the acting stuff he did and keep up good grades is insanely hard to do… he will be prepared for anything that he decides he wants to do. Fabulous drama teacher that was an outstanding mentor and advocate for my S. No training other than his summer programs and HS. He is doing an indepenent project this year, producing, directing and acting in R&G Are Dead. It will be swan song to his HS. He also sang in Carnegie Hall last month.</p>
<p>No acting coach other than his HS teacher. REALLY, REALLY wanted him to go UNCSA</p>
<p>Visits: Unfortunately my S did very few college visits. Which might of been a blessingin disguise. He didn’t have to think too hard about it actually, and after his viist to Kenyon he was so madly in love that he didn’t want to see anything else anyway. He was a good student, not tippy top, with 5-6 AP’s, great test scores, and a really likeable, confident, funny, charming kid, which helped him tremendously I think. He wrestled with the thought of applying ED to NU or Brown, but decided he probably would not get in and after K’s viist, he had a one way thought process. </p>
<p>He had some pretty prestigius awards and honors in acting. The only outlier was NYU, which he did not apply. A lot of unhappy kids there who matriculated from his HS. None are still at Tisch. Probably just a fluke, but swayed him to not apply. He has heard his whole life from many people that have seen him act, but don’t know much about BFA’s, that he should go to Tisch. He was accepted to their summer program in 10th grade, which is hard to do, but alas, too much negatives in his mind, didn’t go, went to Stratford, Canada instead. I am pretty sure he plans on apllying to their MFA though when the time comes. </p>
<p>We visited: Kenyon, Wooster, LMU, USC, UCSB, UCLA, Occidental. That’s it!</p>
<p>He really liked Wooster, but didn’t think their theater program was that strong, LMU has an amazing BA on an absolutely gorgeous campus with faculty that really stood out as fantastic and fun. I think my S would of applied ED2 to Whitman if he hadn’t got in K. </p>
<p>My S decided to pursue a gap year. He sent in his letter to Kenyon requesting a 1 year deferral. They were VERY excited about it and want him to blog about his adventures. He will be doing some traveling, volunterring abroad in Kenya and Romania in a theater capacity. He is also thinking about applying to LAMDA’s semester program. He is excited about getting to do some of the things he has wanted to do for a long time but has had no time during his demanding HS years. I think he will feel right at home when he gets to Kenyon. I was worried a bit that it was too small and rural for this outgoing, never stop, never sleep, award winning personality kid, but he really wanted a small program where he could get his hands all over different parts of the theater. He is also a brilliat writer, and absolutely LOVES english, so if all that is factored in, he will most likely thrive at K. He plans on getting an MFA after UG, in a big bustling city, but for now he craves the intimacy and collaboration, the amazing facuty, the super crazy smart but unpretentious students, the campus that is so beautiful it almost can’t be real, at his dream school. </p>
<p>FA- Side note- FA was a big consideration for us. Kenyon was so generous that when I finally got around to looking at the award, after being so thrilled for my S on his acceptance, I fell to the floor crying. Miracles do happen folks:)</p>
<p>Awesome 5boys! If my D decides to switch to a BA we will be Looking hard at Kenyon. It sounds like her. </p>
<p>Congratulations @5boys ! Kenyon sounds like a fantastic school for theatre and writing. Your son sounds a lot like my daughter. She also struggled with BA vs BFA, and finally decided to focus on the BA schools. Also, she took a hard look at NYU and decided not to apply. She spent three days there with her best friend who is a NYU freshmen. It’s an amazing place for a theatre student, but she decided she wanted a more traditional college campus.</p>
<p>I wish we could have visited Kenyon. It was just too hard for us being from the southeast to justify a visit. There are so many great schools out there and so little time to look. With the exception of a solo Northwestern visit, we scheduled all our trips in clusters of 3-4 schools, so we hit NC/VA, then New England and then NYC over an 18 month period. We never got a chance to look at some other schools she was interested around Boston or on the West Coast.</p>
<p>She also applied to both U of Minn (rolling) and USC sight unseen. </p>
<p>I do regret a bit not having time to visit more schools. It’s tough if you live in CA, because most of the schools are a 4-5 hour plane ride away,a nd with the time change is tough to do it under 2 days, which is the most time he usually could muster up. Play and choir reheasals ate up a lot of his free days off and weekends. The schools we visited in CA were a waste of time because we both knew from the get go that he had not desire whatsoever to sta in CA for college. He really liked USC’s theater dept. and I know quite a few kids that are deliriously happt there, but i is hard for this So Cal local to get the USC stigma out of my head. I know it is rising in the rankings each year, and is a REALLY tough admit now, but I still see " University of Spoiled Childern" when I think of it. A school where really well off parents would send their kids when they couldn’t get in academically to UCLA or Cal.</p>
<p>I do think our kids are similar and I think my S would have loved Brown too. We just never got there. I tried to keep the visits to schools where he had a good chance of acceptance, so no being crushed when your dream schools says, " No thanks" Didn’t see Kenyon coming…thank god it all worked out!! Can’t wait to hear how your D likes Brown!!</p>
<p>Just to add some perspective to some comments above, and not in a negative way at all - just adding the perspective of an actual USC parent 
The really well-off parents may want to send their kids who couldn’t get in to UCLA or Cal to USC, but if the kiddo couldn’t get in those schools they very likely couldn’t get in to 'SC these days. That (quoted above) statement is sounding more and more silly each year, and has reached the level of “ridiculous” by this point. </p>
<p>I will agree, however, that
I know mine was (and I am definitely NOT “really well-off” and my kiddo was accepted by BOTH UCLA and Cal…). The opportunities at USC are truly unlimited. I would hate for anyone to write it off based on a stereotype that was outdated decades ago.</p>
<p>@5boys - best of luck to your kiddo! It is always such a relief when things work out and the admission season comes to a positive end :)</p>
<p>I totally agree that the stereotype is outdated… And USC is a great school… Heck my S could of attended as well… It’s just my perception of something long ago. I was actually quite surprised how beautiful the campus is when we visited. I also have two good friends who have daughters in the Song Girls do have been to a few football games there and had a blast!!! It is definitely something to experience! </p>
<p>never mind…</p>
<p>5boys I have a great book you may want to read that will help move past thinking sterotypes are to be believed. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/untethered-soul-michael-a-singer/1100220282?ean=9781572245372”>http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/untethered-soul-michael-a-singer/1100220282?ean=9781572245372</a></p>
<p>Seems a good time to post my S’s journey. I posted the Sturm und Drang on another thread. This is just the facts.</p>
<p>Applied to:
NO AUDITION: Muhlenberg, University of Rhode Island, Northwestern, Westminster College (Utah)<br>
AUDITIONED IN NYC: Juilliard, Boston U, SUNY Purchase, Fordham, Pace, Rutgers, LAMDA, NYU Tisch
AUDITIONED IN CALIFORNIA: Chapman, USC, CalArts, CMU</p>
<p>Prescreens: Pace (passed), Muhlenberg (instead of a campus visit/audition) </p>
<p>Accepted to: Muhlenberg, University of Rhode Island, Northwestern, Westminster College, Fordham, Rutgers, NYU Tisch, Chapman, USC, CalArts</p>
<p>Rejected from: Juilliard, SUNY Purchase, LAMDA, CMU</p>
<p>Wait-listed at: Boston U, Pace </p>
<p>Final Decision: USC!!!</p>
<p>Coach: High School Teacher/Director</p>
<p>Summer Programs: 1 week Shakespeare camp at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, UT the summer of his freshman year</p>
<p>Financially, USC was a good decision for us (but he also had decent financial pkgs at other schools). My son left a piece of his heart at some of the schools he ultimately turned down. This was a very difficult decision for him, but we are all thrilled that the decision has been made, rejection letters have been sent, he can enjoy the remainder of his senior year and we can begin to plan COLLEGE!</p>
<p>Congrats MsMommy and Son! :))</p>
<p>Wow MsMommy, he had some fab choices! congrats to you both!</p>