@collegeboundSam when did that come in?
@azmtmom13 The CCU waitlist email came in yesterday around 3pm.
@collegeboundSam - my S received the “very narrow waitlist” email as well. We’re optimistic, but trying not to get our hopes up. CCU is his top choice.
@collegeboundSam my daughter also got a waitlist notification stipulating that it was a very small waitlist. Not sure of the exact verbiage but I’m assuming it was the same one. It’s possible that only a small group got a waitlist notification and maybe everyone got the same spiel…
@El-Cee okay let’s hope all the waits get off that “very narrow list” as they put it.
The official acceptance letter was posted on my D’s Temple portal! Yay! 
@BWmama I wish that I had better understood the financials involved. I didn’t realize that for each school on the list there is an academic application fee plus a prescreen or artistic application fee. And you also have to send test scores to each school and multiples if the school super scores. That adds up to around $150-$200 per school. Some are less but that cost really caught me by surprise. I think that we should have researched the specific costs for each school and put that in a spreadsheet. I think that would have caused us to focus on more in-state options and fewer of the big name stretch schools. I am still in shock by how much we spent on this process considering that I limited my D to 10 schools max. In the end she didn’t get into any MT programs but got a vocal music performance scholarship and will be going in that direction. In hindsight since voice is probably her strongest of the three, I guess that we should have pursued other vocal performance options as back ups.
@brieduck I’m a Viterbo alum, the confusing letter was probably a redirect to the BA Theatre program in lieu of an outright rejection.
@CanadianMTgirl any thoughts on having heard nothing yet? Do you know much about how the Viterbo waitlist is run?
@BWmama We never could get to FL state - they tried to work with us but so many schools audition on the exact same weekends. Illinois Wesleyan doesn’t go to Unifieds - our in person audition was great, but we had to choose between it and FSU. I think Millikin was a waste of time at Chicago Unifieds. That’s one I would travel to for sure.
@unc-92-21-23 It really does add up fast. Don’t forget the $40,000 needed to have someone else take your child’s ACT and photoshop their face into a cast photo of ‘Kinky Boots’.
@NYAndOne You just won the internet with that comment :))
Re: SCAD. My daughter auditioned at NYC Unifieds as a walk-in. We didn’t know much about it at the time but she enjoyed her audition and the fact that they were filming her audition. She has since visited SCAD and spoken with Jay Jaski the head of MT. SCAD triple threat trains to round out their MT concentration as well as trains in film and TV acting. They have their own casting department and their faculty are impressive.
@NewToThis13 The institution is on spring break right now, so that’s likely why things have gone quiet. I was on the waitlist for Viterbo about 5 years ago—I got a waitlist notification April 23, and came off the waitlist April 29th. I don’t know why it was so late that year (this was 2014), but I would say definitely reach out to Rick Walters if you feel like you’ve been waiting a while and haven’t heard anything.
On the college admission scandal front…Huffman and Macy’s oldest daughter is currently going through the college app process per a Macy interview in January. She goes to LAHSA so I am sure she is the one he went with to Unifieds this year. Had a 400 point increase in her SAT score to just over 1400.
Well she better not get admitted into any MT schools. Or any schools for that matter. Maybe spots will open up (in all seriousness).
@BWmama - In early hindsight, I wish I had been more intentional and informed about scheduling on-campus vs. Unified Auditions for schools that offer both. We couldn’t get to Illinois Wesleyan, which only does on campus, but now wish we had tried harder to make it work. Part of our issue was that Elon reveals prescreen notifications pretty late and they didn’t have much flexibility on dates. By the time we heard from them, our weekends were already booked. In order to get to Elon (which was a priority for my D - and they only hold on-campus auditions), we had to move Michigan to another weekend, (they were very flexible), but that meant we had to bump IWU. Looking back, we should have done Michigan at Unifieds and prioritized getting to IWU. Conversely, we might have tried harder to audition for Univ. of Arizona and CCU on campus, as they didn’t seem to have a big presence at Chicago Unifieds. (might be wrong, but that was our impression). My suggestion to next year’s folks is to talk to MT departments and find out who from their office will be attending regional auditions. If the key department heads are not traveling, those might be the schools where making the trip for the on-campus audition is worthwhile. Though some schools do videotape the auditions to take back to the heads, that seemed to unsettle my D. I’m sure others might disagree, but that’s our experience, for what it’s worth. Any way you slice it, it’s a huge jigsaw puzzle!!
@mamaboyz as if she did not have enough of a “leg up” being the child of Macy and Huffman!
@BWmama I’ve been on these boards for a number of years (this is my third kid going through the audition process for college) and at this time of year, repeatedly, after kids have not been accepted artistically (but were accepted academically), some schools keep barraging them with emails about attending, which just breaks their hearts again and again (ahem Pace). Since this happens every year, this might warrant a heads-up in your info packet?
^^^I maintain a parent audition manual for our schools’ parents. I don’t put this in the manual but mention it when we meet with junior parents