<p>Madbean: Congratulations to you and your son on his acceptance to such a selective program! </p>
<p>Momofzach: Don’t worry too much about the lost letter. I’m sure that the school can resend it or email it to you if you ask.</p>
<p>Madbean, Wow, just WOW. As someone who loves theater, and indulges in quite a bit since I live right outside of NYC, I’m so excited for your son. So many of the talented actors I see graduated from CMU’s program.</p>
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<p>She DID! Chair of Music Dept called her yesterday.</p>
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<p>Yahoooooo shout out to lil Songbird!!! And yeaaaaaaaa to Madbean!!! Need to keep the happy news coming!</p>
<p>madbean - Congrats on the Carnegie Mellon acceptance. We have friends whose son is a sophomore there and he just loves the school and the entire campus park area.</p>
<p>mamom - Penn State sounds similar to Ohio State. The main campus has become very selective and most of the applications get deferred to one of the satellite campuses for their freshman year. In order to go to main campus in Columbus you need to be in the 3.85 GPA range with an ACT around 29 or so. Needless to say, lots of kids are spending a year on one of the feeder campuses or looking at other state schools. It is unfortunate for your nephew but is sounds like your brother totally missed the college night lecture at school regarding college fairs and the school selection and application process (assuming the school has such an event). And now the problem is he has missed the application deadline for most all of the selective and even some of the mid-tier schools.</p>
<p>Hurray for songbird!!</p>
<p>Madbean, WOW and DOUBLE-WOW!!! Huge congrats, that is truly wonderful news and I’m very happy to share in your delight of a Sunday pm!</p>
<p>Thank you all for sharing in our latest cool and shocking news. S2 only applied to 2 BFA theatre design programs because he came very late in the college list-making cycle to the conclusion this might be the right path for him. He is truly thrilled he can now contemplate this possibility. Wheee!</p>
<p>Now my philosophical ramblings inspired by this unexpected affirmation: when some anonymous arbiter lets your kid know they are on the right track and have the right potential–you want to hug that stranger for giving your child such a great boost of confidence. However, when such an arbiter misses your kid’s potential and doesn’t get them–it isn’t the end of the world. Lessons in perseverance. Earlier this week, before today’s wonderful portfolio review, S2 got a call out of the blue (and he was at school!) from an admissions committee member from another fabulous program (non-theatre). We had never heard of random phone interviews by university faculty (no–not even here on CC!) so S2 was really unprepared. Anyway, after it was all over, he felt not-so-great about how it all went down. Today, however, was a different story. So it goes.</p>
<p>**At the same hotel for today’s portfolio review there were an astonishing array of lovely girls and handsome boys auditioning for many top acting and MT programs. My dear S2 only had to talk about his passion for design–these talented kids had to dance, sing and perform monologues. All the girls were so pretty! My admiration goes out to the kids of this list (and their wonderful supportive parents) who are putting themselves out there and auditioning. Wow. They are so special to take this all on.</p>
<p>Wow! What a Sunday. It usually is so quiet. Big high fives to son of madbean and songbird and their respective loved ones. What fabulous accomplishments!.</p>
<p>Another Saturday of math competitions. Lots of fun but no trophies again. It’s a tough year. I got a few more pieces for my tax return so I filed an updated FAFSA for my one 2/15 deadline school. Hope to get the rest of the info ASAP.</p>
<p>MOSB- yipee! congrats to songbird.</p>
<p>MOSB-wonderful news for songbird!</p>
<p>MOSB: Congrats to Songbird! I love to sign on and see good news.</p>
<p>What talented kiddos we have here!!! Congrats, Madbean and MOSB! I am just so impressed with your kids!</p>
<p>So maybe we will see all these talented children on the Grammy, Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award shows one day! Congratulations to Madbean and MOSB. </p>
<p>Our superintendent of schools tweet this morning: 2 former SJSD students received a Grammy tonight: Danny Belcher 1988 CHS Opera and Eminem (Rap) who attended our schools as a young man.WOW!</p>
<p>Yes, Eminem was born Marshall Mathers right here in a small town in northwest Missouri. His grandmother still lives here. We’ve got it all–opera and rap that keeps the censors on their toes.</p>
<p>he probably will. Your D just need to hang in there. Hope she will get what she’s striving for.</p>
<p>Congrats to madbean and MOSB kids! What great news.<br>
D got e-mail from one of her faves saying SATIIs never made it. She checked her account at College Board and it says they were sent in OCTOBER. D resent (rush$$) and also e-mailed a screen shot. D worries that school thinks she forgot to send. And now we know THEY ARE LOOKING AT HER FILE. Yikes.
Hopefully there are so many score mixups that the adcoms don’t automatically assume the kids are at fault. College Board is quite the money making monopoly!
Happy Monday to all my virtual friends. We are above freezing here and it feels great :)</p>
<p>Madbean and MOSB - Congratulations on the great fine arts news! My D is a total HS theatre geek (both tech and performance) but has no plans to do it for anything but a bit of fun on the side after this. I have such respect for kids (and their parents!) who go through the whole audition/portfolio process. What stress, but what great rewards!</p>
<p>MNMom - What a pain! I’m sure they run into this frequently, and sounds like you and D responded perfectly. Problems with College Board are REALLY frustrating.</p>
<p>Mnmom: I love your description of College Board as “quite the money making monopoly.” It was a good ideal to email the screen shot. I’m sure that the school will realize that it wasn’t your daughter’s mistake.</p>
<p>One of our schools was very nice about taking a photocopy of our report “for the time being.” I think they know things can be weird with the testing services (this time it was ACT). The scores did eventually get there - and D was academically accepted (it’s an audition school).</p>
<p>Speaking of which … That is stressful, yes, but D is proud that she’s done it. Ask her later when the results are in! I imagine if a kid doesn’t get into any auditioned programs they ask themselves why they bothered with the extra work. But on the other hand, auditions are an integral part of being in this field, so it’s great experience. </p>
<p>She has her first 2 Forensics meets this week, plus rehearsals for the play she’s in, plus a couple of music events. It’s a plenty busy time. Basketball has a couple more weeks for Japanese D - I think she’ll sleep for a week when it’s done! </p>
<p>Next year will be SO darned quiet.</p>
<p>Congrats to songbird and madbean’s son- those results are fantastic! As to the lost scores- College Board is not alone, ACT scores have gone missing for us. When we traced it back- it was actually the state schools (all 3) that lost them, not the fault of the ACT folks. Makes me wonder about sending the D to any SUNYs… Also we just took D’s senior portraits (our second attempt) and they came out marvelously! Very old masterish instead of the traditional headshot, which is what she wanted. Ours is a tech high school so hopefully they can get into the electronic equivalent of the yearbook. D is not fussed one way or the other- and the students rarely start putting the yearbook together before April so I hope it will be ok.</p>