<p>It’s tricky, but I think you did the right thing. The folks who run these festivals are pros and they understand these things happen from time to time. Also: BUTI is a festival you pay to attend, right? But at Aspen, a higher-level festival, he has a fellowship. My daughter accepted a place in a fellowship-funded festival this year and a week later heard from a festival where she’d been waitlisted. She declined the waitlist without considering it because she had committed to the prior festival. But the difference was that both were funded festivals. </p>