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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really hard to feel sorry for people when the athletic hook doesn’t work for them. [/quote]

It’s not hard if you’re not an ahole because you know how much work the kid put into it.[/quote]

Our kids who study hard, act in plays, win speech & debate competitions, tutor peers, and write for the paper also are kids who put a lot a lot of work in. they just don't feel as entitled to gain admission with lower academic standards!

why should students whose EC is sports gain admission with lower academic standards to play sports that don't bring any benefit to the school's other students? who watches cross-country, volleyball, squash, etc.?

at least diversity helps everyone by not having people in bubbles.[/quote]

CMU theatre kids don’t need test scores or grades anywhere approaching the non-theatre students. This is true of other schools with strong arts programs.
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Perhaps.  But the chances of getting into the theater program at CMU are substantially less than the regular admissions percentages.

In addition, drama is an academic major at CMU, with [b]a separate audition component to the admissions process.[/b]  Not really a good comparison with athletics.  [/quote]

Actually a perfect comparison. The athletic recruiting process fundamentally functions the same as the audition. Sports aren’t a major but so what, they are institutional priorities.[/quote]

Soft course it’s different.

Athletics are an EC. People don’t study football. Theatre is an academic program. People major in theatre. There are no pre-reads for theatre, no preferred admissions. No recruiting.

Why do parents of athletes try so hard to justify the separate admissions process? Isn’t that what you want?

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Ummmmm at most colleges you do submit your theater work as part of the admissions process.  Not required but done mostly.[/quote]

Yes, you do. When applying as a theatre major. You don’t when auditioning for a play on campus that is not part of that major - IOW, an EC. Students doing theatre as an EC in college do not get a pre-read and a separate admissions process.

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Depends on the school.  Just went through this with DC who is a tech theater major (ironically, also played on a club team for a sport because they couldn't play in HS because it conflicted with theater).  There were absolutely schools where the theater department trumped the admissions department.  CMU is one of them.  In others, the students were cleared through admissions before the theater dept scheduled interviews -- for tech theater, they do interviews and portfolio reviews but same basic thing as auditions.[/quote]

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