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for anyone who still cares... wrote to admissions at CMU a couple of times over the past couple of weeks and called and left a voicemail. finally received an email apologizing for taking so long, saying that letters will be mailed shortly, but the class has already been decided (which is no surprise -- I just want the rejection so I can ask for feedback on the application). Whatever. MAKE KICK ASS THEATER, EVERYONE. TAKE RISKS. GO BIG. Grad school or not, MAKE YOUR MARK.

thanks @CornFed -- yeah, sounds like a mess. and @mwatt I'm right there with you -- have the decency to write back to an email (even with a form contrived lackluster response). pretty tacky.

anyone hear anything at all from CMU? @mr.taco? @mwatt? the person that I knew had a callback accepted her slot. not sure if their waiting to hear about the second offer before they formally deal with us? I mean 99.9% sure that it's a no, just frustrating that there is no rejection from them and no response when you write to check-in...

(and what do you know -- just got my calarts rejection) good luck to everyone!

@UnrulyMop -- hi, I just read thru the forum and saw you interviewed with CalArts. how did it go for you? have you heard a peep yet?

Oh jeez you guys. I really wish I knew about this forum earlier. Would've saved me countless hours trolling the results page. Sorry for the long post, but gotta catch up! Freelance theater maker in NYC, been out of undergrad for a dozen plus years, figured why not send some apps in for this year and see what happens. Only applied to CMU and CalArts. CalArts made it to the interview stage (in NYC on January 30th). Met with Travis the head of the program, he said they were only interviewing 15 out of 150, and that there was no auditions after this. I know interviews wrapped up mid-February. I reached out to Amanda in admissions re: notifications and she replied on March 4th "We are hoping to send out our notifications within the next week or two. Thanks for your patience." So who knows. I know Travis isn't actually there this semester, so I wonder if things are being held up because of that? CMU -- oh boy. Skype interview like the rest of you. Fairly unexciting and tough to get a good read on Caden. He said that they would reach out end of Feb/top of March with auditions in the spring, and that there were 42 candidates that he had to narrow down to 6. I do know that none of my work sample videos or photo slideshow in my portfolio were ever watched (because I can track the vimeo links), so I find that pretty crappy with so few applicants. BUT here's where it gets better -- I start chatting with the person interviewing at CalArts right before me (cause we're stuck in the 37th floor hallway of a hotel in times square and the interviews are running 90 minutes behind schedule) and we are talking about the admission process. Turns out we both applied to CMU. HER: Oh did you hear back yet? ME: No, did you? HER: Oh. Well now I don't want to tell you because you'll feel bad. Turns out she got the callback shortly after the first interview and was headed down there in mid-Feb for it. Of course she tells me this right before the CalArts interview and then is in there for AN HOUR (scheduled for 30 minutes). Which means my interview gets cut really short because he's running out of time. Oy. Then I see on the search forum (one of you perhaps?) saying that CMU rejection letters start coming in mid/late Feb. But I still haven't received anything... Talked to someone else recently who went there years ago (before Caden). He has a friend who just got accepted. But I'm sure she's probably waiting to hear from other programs before accepting the offer or not. So I guess those of us who haven't been contacted yet or rejected are maybe shortlisted for another round of callbacks if they don't get their other picks? My friend said he auditioned in April when he went. Well that's all from me...