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Awesome! Thanks for the info.

Hi puttputt, Thanks for the info! Do you have any insight on OU's Directing Program? I'm applying to them this year.

Yeah, she said "you definitely won't hear anything until middle of next week, so just relax for now". That was last Thursday, so presumably within the next few days the finalists would hear. The callbacks would be Feb 8th and 15th, I believe. Just relax for now... right! I'll just relax! No problem!

Been a crazy couple of days here -- thought I'd report in case any of the info is useful for you guys. - Had my interview with Yale yesterday. It was very casual, just talking to Liz Diamond in her office for an hour. She's one of the warmest, most gracious people I've ever been interviewed by. Some numbers that are interesting: from the hundreds (I'm guessing 400-500?) applications for directors, they selected about 45 people to come out to the campus to interview. From these, they're going to select a handful of finalists to call back in February, and 3 of them will be selected for admission. - Heard back from Carnegie Mellon to schedule an interview - Heard back from DePaul late last night, inviting me to a "finalist" audition/interview in Los Angeles - Haven't heard anything from UCSD - URTA schedules should be sent on Monday GETTING CRAZY! How is everybody doing?

DePaul is taking a long time, it's nearly a month after the deadline. I wonder if it would be useful to send an email to check-in? Does this tend to annoy schools?

I got an email from Dennis Delaney from Ohio today, letting me know I would be interviewed at the URTAs and giving me some more info on the program.

I got the same email from URTA -- super vague but still exciting. vitality, I'll also be at the URTAs in Chicago -- let me know if you want to grab coffee the day before! clementiney, when is your CalArts interview? It might be the same weekend // day as the URTAs.

I heard back from Brown/Trinity today, confirming an audition in San Francisco on February 7th.

Also, when you consider the sheer volume of Yale applicants, there is no way in hell they considered every application in ten days. They might stagger interviews, and they also might see how their first round interviews go before seeing if they need more options? I'm just throwing stuff out, I have no idea how these things work. I do love how this forum can help other applicants break the horrible radio silence: it's really helpful to know when somebody gets an interview, offer, or rejection. Have any of you guys applied to directing programs in previous years? What sort of questions come up in interviews?

Thanks! I'm pretty shocked, I wasn't expecting that one. They called me on Dec 11th, ten days after turning in the application, which is a crazy turnaround.

Good luck guys! Vitality, my list is almost identical to yours. My apps are sent in for the URTAs, as well as Yale, Brown, DePaul, CMU, and UCSD. Last one is Boston, which I'll try to finish up soon. I've only heard back from Yale (got an interview! I'm flying out there next week.), but a lot of them were just sent off. Let us know when you guys hear back!

Hi clementiney, Yes, actually! I was just going to start the same thread! I'm applying for the first time this year, and trying to be fairly ambitious about it. I've applied to Yale and sent common packets to six schools for the URTAs (CalArts, UCLA, FSU, Ohio, Indiana, Temple). I'm working on DePaul (due Monday) and plan to apply to Brown, Carnegie Mellon, UCSD, and Boston. What about you?