<p>OMG…I am officially OVER waiting! I auditioned on campus like a month ago and I just checked the calendar just to find that I had…that’s right…5 more WEEKS!!! YES!!! I couldn’t be happier…NOT…Ah!!! I can’t take it anymore! Anyone else? :)</p>
<p>Why no GJordan, we LOVE the wait. It’s the best. Good times.</p>
<p>haha I so agree…you aren’t alone im sure i scared the mail man the other day. Our mail usually comes around 4 and it was 4 15 and i looked out the window and saw that the mail truck was at the box down the street where out mail is so i dashed and stood in front on the box, key in hand, waiting for him to finish and trying to get a glimpse of what he was putting in to see if there were any big envelopes…he shut the door and i almost screamed when i saw a big white envelope i pulled it out of the mailbox to find that it was from AAA about my car insurance…I hate the waiting too but i make the days go by by checking my e-mail 3000000 times and always getting the mail and inbetween that i check my status at all the schools</p>
<p>Take a deep breath everybody…I believe that last year’s acceptances came by phone call in mid March, followed by letters close to April. Good luck and keep busy while you are waiting!</p>
<p>Well, we looked at the where are you in the process website, and saw they had pulled in the SAT’s we asked the college board to send–and they send his “practice” scores. We have been having trouble with college board through this whole experience and it appears ONCE again, I will have to pay them to send scores somewhere. I know I’m off topic, but I have to VENT!</p>
<p>I’m in my hotel room in Pittsburgh right now; I have my audition at 9am tomorrow. Should I show up in mah dance threadssss?? Or should I wear my normal-people clothes?</p>
<p>Depends if you dance first, which I think you do. So dance clothes.</p>
<p>they’ll tell you. it’s probably too late now, though.</p>
<p>CMU admission office sent my son a card reminding him to fill out FAFSA if needed and about tuition fees. Did anyone receive this.</p>
<p>momsonfaith - my D received this info too - in spite of emailing the admissions office that she was withdrawing her application.</p>
<p>MTgrlsmom :If you don’t mine me asking why you decided to withdraw your application? Also, do you think they send this information to everyone that applied to the conservatory program? Thanks</p>
<p>My D was accepted to NYU (CAP21), her dream school ED. Rather than sit and wait to see where else she would get accepted, she went ahead and informed every school that she had applied to (including the ones she had received acceptance letters from) that she was withdrawing her application. </p>
<p>She absolutely loved CMU’s MT program, and knows quite a few current students, and so please know that this had absolutely nothing to do with her not liking something about CMU :). With all the people waiting, and the limited number of spots available, it just was the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, your daughter, as an ED admitted student, is REQUIRED to withdraw all of her applications to other schools. It is not an option or just the “right thing to do.” It is part of the agreement when one applies ED to a school, which is a binding decision to attend and to withdraw all active applications to all other colleges. She is not allowed to sit and wait to see where else she would be accepted. Just sharing this so that any who read this who contemplate applying to schools ED know the rules and understand that this wasn’t a choice, but a requirement.</p>
<p>I believe everyone who applied to CMU for anything got that card reminding them about financial aid and to fill out the FAFSA. 
(In other words, I wouldn’t take it as indication that the kid is about to be accepted, unfortunately! I wish!)</p>
<p>I would interpret it as NMR…not an indicator of anything, but rather a procedure sent to all applicants.</p>
<p>MTgrlsmom I’m very happy for your daughter. I know your family’s glad they can relay now. Thanks for all the information above.</p>
<p>soozievt - I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we are seeing kids who actually have been admitted ED, go ahead and audition at schools as scheduled; we are also seeing examples of people who have decided to just “trophy hunt” waiting to hear back from other schools, just to see if they “get in”. There are also others who are saying that ‘in hindsight’ they are not sure they want to/can afford to attend, and leave other applications open, because there are no true legal repercussions, or so they tell us.</p>
<p>So yes, even though when admitted ED, it should be a given that people are indeed retracting their applications, apparently plenty are not. My D had none of the above thoughts, as she was on cloud nine, when she got her letter, and, in spite of loving other schools, this is were she really wanted to be.</p>
<p>momsonfaith - thanks so much for your kind words, it was like being on a roller coaster this fall, and we are now following other kids’ journey, cheering everybody on with all our might (see also my reply to soozie above).</p>
<p>MTgrlsmom, that is unfortunate indeed. Actually, with some schools, such as the more selective ones (I’m talking of colleges in general, not MT) send around lists of students accepted ED. Should a college see an applicant of theirs on this list, that would be reason to inform their ED school which could then opt to rescind their acceptance. </p>
<p>Also, ED is a binding admissions process. If a student can show that they cannot accept the ED offer due to financial hardship (in most cases, such applicants who need a certain amount of aid should NOT apply to a binding admissions ED process), they can get out of it, but this is by the early reply date, and not after weighing other options in spring. When a student breaks an ED agreement, there also can be repurcussions for future applicants from their HS because the guidance counselor has gone along with the ED application and if applicants from that school do not abide by the conditions, then the college will be reluctant to continue accepting students from that high school again. Not a good thing. </p>
<p>I’m sharing all this for those who may be reading and not you, of course.</p>
<p>Susan, I wonder if it would perhaps a good idea to move this into a separate ED thread, explaining what it really SHOULD mean. Also, I am not 100% sure, but from my D’s list it appeared that only NYU had an ED option (only one school had EA, and another few had rolling admission). </p>
<p>I am actually quite happy to learn that there is a list that circulates, because when we heard about those people auditioning regardless, I found it to be quite frustrating that the only thing we could do was to say that we did not really get it, and that it did not seem an ok thing to do. I have to say that when my D sent those emails to either the admissions people and/or the musical theatre departments she received the nicest congratulatory messages back.</p>
<p>At the same time, some people do face financial hardship and are being offered little very aid, but I guess you ultimately do need to factor that in when making that ED ‘yes or no call’. </p>
<p>For those of you still auditioning, there is some good news buried in there as it will mean that a few extra slots will become available; I also hope that those people who are “maintaining multiple slots alongside their ED acceptance” will come across these posts!</p>