Day 6: Acceptance!

So I was accepted yesterday! Day 5! Yay! I was on campus when I pulled out my itouch to check my email and there it was. Sitting in my inbox. Of course I flipped out and freaked everyone around me. I was accepted for Merchandise for the Fall Advantage season and I leave 5/24/2010! I'm SO excited!! I plan to start vlogging once i get my purple folder in the mail too. Until my audition i'm not too sure what else I can really blog about...i'll find something.

Day 1-Thank You

1 day has passed since my interview.
And i received my thank you email. That was quick...and a lot of people on the group are being accepted in a matter of days. That is making me super anxious and now I am obsessively checking email. Jeezo.
The email said 3-4 weeks and to contact them after 4, so that's different from the 4-6 i've been hearing and I like that better.
My heart did skip a beat though when I saw my email inbox with an email from Disney.
The moon has looked like the Cheshire cat's smile the past two nights too. I'll take that as a good sign.

Formspring

I now have a formspring...thing. Not sure how it works...but I synced it up with my blog so ask me questions!
formspring.me/sarahmckenney

Post Phone Interview-Day 0

My interview was scheduled for 1:15 pm today and at 1:13 my phone rang. And yes I was sitting by the phone for the past hour waiting. I had Nancy as my interviewer. It started off with the basic questions to confirm my student status and then she asked me for my top roles. I said character performer, costuming, and attractions. She then asked me if I was ok with accepting QSFB..and I said yes. She then asked me questions about my performing experience and why I wanted to work at Disney. Then we chit chatted for about 10 minutes about my costuming experience and she asked me if I was ok with delivering long spiels for attractions. Which of course I am ok with. She invited me to the audition in Chicago and told me how that would go. Then a few roommate questions and some of my previous job experience questions. Followed by a couple criminal history questions and THIS is where my phone decided to drop the call. I wanted to cry. I freaked out. She called back and I apologized like 3 times and she was incredibly nice about it. She asked me if I had any questions and then my phone distorted her voice and dropped the call AGAIN. Seriously? This has never happened to me before and it would happen during this phone call of all phone calls. She called back again thank god and I asked her a few questions and then she told me I would be waiting around 4 weeks but that hopefully it would be less than that for me to find out. Which is good! The interview lasted almost exactly 30 minutes. And aside from the two mishaps it went really well and I feel ok about it. I'm just super stressing out about the dropped calls. And I have a long time to stress out about it. Luckily my show enters tech rehearsals tonight so I have that to take my mind off of this for the next 2 weeks. And maybe i'll even know by then.
Fingers crossed!
The wait begins!

SIUE you SUCK

So I went to the career center today and I asked them about getting credit for doing the DCP and they said that there was no credit for going. Ok, no biggie. So then I asked if there was credit if I took classes, there is none. Ok.....what? That's NOT ok....I'm only one credit short. I am NOT going to Disney and then coming back here for 1 credit...my plan is to go out there and STAY out there.

So I went to the chair of the department and asked him what my options were. He suggested an online class (I didn't even know we offered those!) or a Rehearsal and Performance class. Which is basically getting credit for being in a show. Since i've already taken R+P twice though it technically wouldn't count. But he said he would pull some strings so it would count. I'm so lucky the professors in this department care about getting their students out into the world...because the actual school sure doesn't.
Hung out with Mags (I miss her!! :( ) and talked to her about the program. She's applying for the SITI company's workshop (jealous!) and we should find out around the same time if we've been accepted into our respective programs.

And I DID get a cupcakery cupcake too. :) It's Raspberry Beret. yummy.

Day 5

Day 5 in the application process! I'm thinking of resetting the counter after my interview which is in 24 hours!! Just to more reflect the wait time. A bunch of people got accepted today and congrats to them all! Hopefully i'll be joining you in about 4-6 weeks! Today i'm going to pay a visit to the career development center and see if they can answer my questions about credit and graduating and what not. Maybe even grab a cupcake at the cupcakery because i'm feeling a little under the weather.
I've spent the last...almost week prepping for the interview and doing some research on Disney World since I haven't been there in 15 years! I"m sure lots has changed since then.
Hoping I get costuming. Hoping my experience gives me an edge.
Hoping more for character performer, but that's in march.

Walt Disney College Program Day 3

It is now Day 3 since I applied for the DCP and I have my phone interview on Wednesday. I wasn't sure if I wanted to start blogging before I got accepted because *gasp* what if i'm not accepted!?!? BUT I like to think that my chances are pretty frickin good! I'm totes Disney material! My top 4 roles are Character Performer, Costuming, Attractions, and Housekeeping. I plan on auditioning in Chicago on March 26th too. I may know by then if i'm accepted or not, and I may not know. Costuming seems like a pretty good shot though. I have 4 years of costuming experience. I worked as a dresser where we had to check costumed in/out, do laundry, dress people, and do minor repairs. So...i'm definitely qualified. AND i'm just a big ol' bundle of energy so the audition should be a piece of cake. I hear about the animation part and it just sounds like stuff I do in my acting classes everyday.

I hope I don't sound over confident. I'm just positive!!