CornFed

Hey All, Been lurking for awhile, but wanted to weigh in about Carnegie Mellon. I was an alternate there a number of years back and they accidentally sent me a form rejection letter from their playwrighting program, after having been their alternate candidate for Directing. When I contacted them they were super embarrassed, turns out I wasn't even supposed to have gotten a rejection letter period yet at that point as they hadn't settled their class. This was after accidentally scheduling me for a stage management interview or something at the beginning and a number of other weird things along the way. I was on and off the waitlist a few times and it took until July to straighten out. I'm pretty sure if I had been accepted at that point I would have turned them down. Considering there were only 6 final candidates and that all of the communication up until the accidental rejection was very personal and fairly informal, I was pretty appalled. Had really hoped they'd figured out their admin problems in the intervening years, but alas, apparently not. Certainly does not reflect well on the program. Sucks they are still such a mess for you guys!