If you're a drama major, did you do summer programs?

ActingDad
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:57:38 +0000

The CMU program is wonderful. My only warning – don’t go to that one because you think it will get you a leg up on getting into CMU. What is liable to happen is your kid will talk about their acting teachers Don and Tony as if they were their favorite uncles, every time you’ll be watching something on TV or in the movies your kid will point out to you the CMU actor in the show, your kid will come home from summer with CMU pajamas, sweatshirts, etc. (so that is why the debit card needed more money every couple of weeks?) and when the calls go out for CMU, your kid will agonize more than any of the other kids trying to get into CMU because your kid will already feel like CMU is their school and not getting the call will feel like something they already have is being taken away as opposed to just not being offered an acceptance.

Who knows about the status of calls but, at this point, no kid who was at pre-college this summer for acting has gotten an acceptance.

I’m sure I’ll feel differently two weeks from now but right now I’m wishing I’d sent her to some other school than CMU’s pre-college last summer!