Information from accepted student visit 2014

OakMT15
Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:28:46 +0000

I just want to specifically clarify one thing that you said, cause I know a lot of parents on here want to believe that CCM is a ‘get thin or get cut’ school. It’s not. Nobody is ever forced to ‘join the fitness center and get a personal trainer’. Sure students are encouraged, yes…but everyone should hit the gym at least once in a while! It’s good for ya! As Musical Theatre majors, we all know that, unfortunately, looks play a huge part in the business we want to break into. So naturally, we do care about the way we look and we do tend to our bodies. The Rec Center (gym) is free for any full time student of UC, which includes MTs. The only time you’d ever have to pay for it would be over the summer, but not many of the MTs stay during the summer. And I have not known anyone to be encouraged to get a personal trainer. People have made the decision themselves to do that, but between the MT students, we have enough ‘gym rats’ in the department to help each other out with how to build muscle, lean, firm, what have you. But there are people who don’t go to the gym very often and they are in NO way punished for that.

I just wanted to clarify that because I get sensitive when people say that CCM bullies students about their weight and I would hate if people inferred that because they thought the faculty forced kids to get personal trainers or something! I know that a few years ago there was some crazy absurd rumor going around this website that CCM sets goal weight and if you don’t maintain them, you are cut. There ARE schools that do that, however, CCM is not one of them.