<p>Good to hear from you, Soozie! I just talked to your niece and sister-in-law at West High’s “Much Ado About Nothing” tonight. Our son is on the CMU waitlist but has also received an acceptance to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland this Fall for a three year BA degree and is one of five Americans to be accepted each year. We are hearing wonderful things about the program but have never visited Scotland or the school. He received a letter from CMU stating that he was one of the top 5 on the waitlist but required us to send in $600 for him to be placed on the priority list and state that it was his #1 choice. RSAMD is only $27,000 a year for three years and CMU is $55,000 for four years. The latter is not within our budget AT ALL. If a substantial financial package is awarded AFTER an acceptance, it might be a consideration but at this point he has decided to stay on the waitlist. He has had an AMAZING two years at Interlochen Arts Academy. He was cast as Frog in “A Year with Frog and Toad”. The 12 member cast traveled to the Helen Mills Theatre in Manhattan for four shows and he was just cast as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof”, which will open May 10th on campus. If you have any insights, thoughts or ideas, please feel free to share.</p>