@BrennaK I so appreciate and agree with your post regarding sharing acceptances while trying to remain sensitive to the anxiousness surrounding this whole process. It’s so helpful to know if there is activity with the schools while at the same time nausea inducing!! Hope everyone is finding healthy ways to calm the nerves right now!
For those interested, some Penn State calls went out today.
The one thing I’ve learned having a theater kid is how supportive the whole community is about others’ successes. It’s fun to hear positive news. My S is still waiting for something, anything from all 11 schools including four schools that others have already heard from. But I would say sincere congratulations to.all those who have heard. We’re celebrating with you.
I wasn’t going to mention Penn State until someone had heard definitive news but my son noticed on Instagram that psumt started following 7 high school seniors about 2 hours ago. Also one of our schools.
Make that waiting on 10 schools. Ithaca “no” just came in the mail tonight. We were expecting that based on his portal being shut off Monday but now its official.
Hang in there @jpkcmo. My son got into one of his top schools and didn’t pass the Ithaca prescreen, so I think you’ll be ok.
@jpkcmo. Definitive news.
A friend warned me that waiting for results after college auditions was the toughest part of this process. During application deadline season for 18 schools I thought - no way, this is the toughest!!! Then during prescreen season I thought - no way, this is the toughest!!! During auditions in 4 states I thought - no way, this is the toughest (but also really fun)!!! Now that we’re here… SIXTEEN days after my D’s last audition I finally get it. Ugh… This is certainly the toughest part of the process!!! If I wasn’t OCD before this, I certainly am now - LOL!!! So thankful for you all… Thankful to be going through this “with” you. Glad to be able to comfort each other through the rejections and celebrate together through the acceptances. It’s absolutely crazy waiting - I can’t imagine doing this alone!!!
@MTmama42 - Totally agree. The auditions were a walk in the park compared to the waiting! Hang in there!
@Mark80 Thanks!!!
@Jpkcmo - hoping for some good news soon for your S!
The waiting is murder - we waited last year until March 28th for my D’s first acceptance to a BFA program … I am sure you guys all know now how that felt for us! I hope NONE of you wait that long this year!!! But for those of you waiting for the first yes - keep your spirits up! It can happen and it does happen and you just need to find your zen and float through these weeks. They will pass. News will come. Ooooommmm.
@Jpkcmo I am also rooting for your son to begin to hear some good news from the remaining 10 schools. At this point in the process, I’m of the “no news is good news” school of thought. Still, I can imagine how hard it is to wait for that first “yes.”
My son was fortunate enough to receive an early “yes,” and then a few others. It has certainly made the rejections less painful. However, I have to say that I feel really strange and somewhat guilty when I post about good news. It’s exciting when the news comes, and it’s so nice to share it with people who “get it.” None of my friends/family understands why we are so thrilled about our son getting into OKCU, which they’ve never even heard of. Yesterday, when I told my mother about the OKCU acceptance, she said (and I quote), “That’s very interesting. Is he satisfied with that?”
At the same time, I am also very aware that many people here are waiting for good news, and may even be waiting to hear from the very school I am posting good news about. Despite my sons acceptances, there are schools that he loves that have been making offers for two weeks, while he sits on the bubble. That’s really hard. But again, he’s been accepted elsewhere, which makes the waiting easier.
I am grateful for everyone here. We all share in each other’s celebrations, disappointments, and anxieties. I am rooting for every kid to get that “yes” that he/she has been waiting for. I appreciate the support and comradery that exist among the MT parents here. If I hadn’t found this community, I think I would have gone stark raving mad by now. Instead, I’ve only developed a severe case of OCD.
Good luck everyone. And keep the faith!
For those who have had rejections and are without acceptances to date - and BOY to I remember that phase, my D got several early rejections and Had to wait until March 23rd to get a BFA yes… When my D hears disappointing audition news (or more likely with professional auditions, doesn’t GET news) she has a little saying that is part of her routine: “Just because it hasn’t happened YET, doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen, what’s next?” - stay strong everyone… it just hasn’t happened YET :x
@mommaofdrama Check with the financial aid office or in the handbook/catalog for the college. They may have “continuing student scholarships” that are given out to sophomores and above. (S’s school has these. Hoping he can snag a few more scholarship dollars for next year.)
I just want to chime in along with @toowonderful for those who are becoming more stressed as these call announcements are being made…seeing this early movement is tough when you have nothing at this early stage, but it will come. March was the longest, most nerve wracking month! There are still so many twists and turns ahead! Hang in there…it does work out!
@Onourown, agree! Especially seeing OKCU calling people when we still are driving 9 hours to audition there this weekend! lol Putting it out of our minds until after the weekend. But in fairness, my son is doing an acting audition there-maybe they don’t have many MT auditioning this weekend?
@“boola boola” - as one who was in the “waiting for that first yes” group last year I can tell you - EVERYONE is genuinely happy for every acceptance. Sometimes these boards got too painful to read and I would stop reading. but I’d come back when I was less sensitive and I was always happy for the kids who were finding their places - even the few who were “running the board”. 
Part of it is - all of our kids are performers but they aren’t carbon copies of each other. You want them to find “their” place and that place isn’t someone else’s. They all have their own journey.
And LOL about OKCU - a friend of ours got the same reaction when they were admitted. Wait until you decide and proudly say “My kid is going to GREATMT college!” and everyone says “aw - too bad, couldn’t they get into the local U”? The MT schools that are well known here are blips on most people’s screens and they really don’t understand.
@pegski he is absolutely in the game! This is a VERY long process and this is just the start of the end. My own daughter got the call she was dying for on April 6th (2 yrs ago) I remember others getting them even later because there will be a ton of waitlist movement after students make their final visits to their accepted schools around their Easter break.
@“boola boola” I was one of those desperate parents, waiting for that one ‘yes’ a year ago. The first yes didn’t come until after April 1st, and none of my D’s acceptances were ones that even came near the top of her list. It was brutal. I stayed away for a bit, because I just couldn’t take reading about everyone else’s. Despite it not being a competition, the kids are competing for the same coveted seats. Many of the kids were getting acceptances to schools my d never even considered (this was a lesson in where we went wrong in this process; regarding expanding the list location wise and including solid non-audition safeties and schools with great programs that aren’t ‘top 10’ in reputation).
I’d stalk back in now and then to see when letters/e-mails were coming in; A year ago this week, I remember seeing some people respond that their kids got a ‘no’ in the mail for a particular school. We hadn’t gotten hers yet, so I got my hopes up. Her ‘no’ letter just came letter. So ‘no news is good news’ wasn’t the case here.
The silver lining to the very dark cloud was that I met a few really caring and supportive moms here; one of which has a d who is an upperclassman at my d’s school, another mom who’s d had no acceptances at this point, and a few others who did have a few options, but were the best cheerleaders in the world for my d and me. A year later, some of us are FB friends and are continuing to share in the rollercoaster that is being the parent of a MT student.
I have to say - I live in Northern Ohio. When I tell people that Cincinnatti and UM are 2 of the top MT schools in the country people here think I am crazy! LOL No one outside of the bubble knows anything about this. Also makes me laugh when people think my d wants to be famous. Ummm do any of them know any theatre actors other then Adina Menzel…NO! That’s how I knew my d was serious. I asked her when she was like 10 (she was already a dancer and had showed interest in singing) if she wanted to be one of those popular girls on the DIsney and Nick channels. She looked at me like I was crazy and said No, I want to be talented. Sooo the voice lessons started…LOL