My only point is that this is actually the way things happened for my son. I am not making any statement for or against anyone or anything.
Sometimes on this site we comment based on hearsay, rumor, 3rd-4th-5th-person accounts, other-other-other people’s opinions and experiences, myths & legends, etc. Our family has sporadically chronicled our experience here from start to finish, and frankly, I was going to be done with CC with the “End of the Journey” thread…then my son had a favorable outcome from his showcase. People on this site are informed and vested in the BFA process, I knew they would “get” what happened and may appreciate the info. I mostly wanted people to come away hopeful. I wanted people to think, “It can work! I sort-of know this cyber-guy…and the whole college BFA thing worked! (at least on the short term)”
You can always dis-count any one person’s story as an anomaly. Which happens all the time. There are plenty of folk from “Prestigious” programs who don’t work and get out of the business. There of plenty of people who went to “Unknown” programs (on no programs) that have Broadway careers. I get it. It’s just that when it happened in our family, it was real. It was not an anomaly. It was our experience. It was our fact.