GunningForGrad

Solid goal @Loose.tap.screws! I would love a chance to pick the brains of all of those ladies. Sounds like you're kicking butt in the interview department, though!

Good luck! I'll be rooting for you. I'm going to Rhode Island for mine on Feb. 13!

Welcome @AgentMike! Sorry to hear about Yale and DePaul; it's always a punch to the gut. Hope good news becomes your friend in the coming days! When is your Brown interview?

I haven't received the formal email with information but Tracee is working with my schedule and said she would place me in the morning slot. I will literally be in the city just long enough to interview.

I'll be at the interviews on February 18 too! I'll be in the morning session. Hope we'll run into each other! So that puts me with interviews set up for Yale, DePaul, and of course the first round at Brown. All I'm waiting on currently is UCSD.

@steffybolt well it seems miracles do happen! I got my DePaul finalist interview invitation today!!

There was a good list of possible questions posted in last year's thread I think...I remember coming across something. Let me look in my prep file and see what I can find!

@steffybolt, right? Five essays is too much! Definitely a stressor when I was in the middle of opening a show and closing another! I'm going to go ahead and count myself out for the DePaul callback weekend, which I'm ok with. I was mostly interested in getting that hardcore feedback I heard about. I would have to find a few sugar daddies to be able to afford the program!

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UCSD just closed their applications this week so I think it's going to be awhile. Congrats on the calls from Yale and DePaul! Guess I should put my DePaul curiosity to rest. Although a friend of mine reached out to DePaul today and they said they were still reviewing applications and making calls. Probably just their standard answer before sending out rejects, but it's also enough to keep me on the hook for a few more days. How early did you get your app turned in @steffybolt? And when/where are you interviewing? Maybe I can convince myself they just haven't gotten to mine. ?

@Directorial I'm afraid I don't have any. I applied a few years ago but I didn't get an interview from them at the time. You may go through threads from previous years to see if you can find something!

Congrats @Directorial!! You are on fire! Hope your interview go swimmingly and you get interviews from the schools you're still waiting on!

Good to know! I wonder when we should expect to hear from UCSD. It seems strange that they pushed their deadline back so much- I feel that that would totally throw off their timeline. I did speak to someone that said to anticipate them starting off with Skype interviews and then inviting finalists for a campus visit.

Congrats on the interview @Directorial! I hope it goes exceedingly well. I didn't go the URTA route this year, as I wasn't impressed with the list of schools offering directing this year. It just seems to be getting shorter and shorter as schools seem to be choosing to go their own way when it comes to directing programs. Right now I'm preparing for my Yale (February 4 in Chicago) and Brown (February 13 in New Haven) first round interviews. Waiting to hear from DePaul (gauging from past years, should hear from them before the 20th unless it'a a rejection which will be closer to the end of the month) and UCSD (which will be awhile with their deadline extension). What is everyone else waiting on?

Keeping my fingers crossed for you! By chance, did anyone apply for DePaul? If so, have you heard anything?

I just got my call! Interviewing in Chicago on February 4!!! I'm not sure if I'm buzzing from excitement or if I'm having a heart attack.

Curioser and curiouser. Well I hope it is Yale for you! Has anyone's Yale application status changed on the site from submitted? Most of my apps have changed from that to being "under review" so I thought I would ask.

Also, I guess I missed that UCSD extended their deadline. I applied there a couple days before the original deadline. Thank you for letting me know it could be a good while longer!

@Loose.tap.screws Did you Google the number? You can usually find out where it's from and for that way. I'm

@Loose.tap.screws Please call them back and let us know who it was! Welp. My productivity just went out the window today.

Wow I didn't expect them to do calls on a Friday. No Yale call for me as of yet. I guess I'll hold out hope until Tuesday before accepting my first reject. @Directorial do you know when your friend submitted their application?

No calls yet for me. After stalking previous threads, it looks like we're in the sweet spot to get a call from Yale and possibly others such as DePaul soon. I think with Monday being the observed holiday, that probably pushes us back a bit compared to last year. My thought is that they start making calls next week. All speculation, but that's my two cents. I got my final app turned in at the start of this week and now the waiting game is REALLY hitting me. Especially when I realized how close we are to hearing something. It may be fun, in the meantime, to distract ourselves by getting to know one another better! So! Roll call- tell us a little about you, your directing background, why you're applying for grad school, and maybe what projects you have coming up that you're excited about. (This is also a nice casual warm up to those interviews we'll be facing soon!) Best of luck friends!