DD applying Disney College Program

[KylesMom]

Congratulations to her - what exciting news!!!!

Also, a big thanks on keeping us all informed on how the process works, the different steps, etcetera. I know it has been very helpful to many parents and prospective CP'ers!

[brownie]

Awesome! Congrats to her!

[forever a child]

Thank you everyone. My DD has been writing a blog, so if you are interested, feel free to PM me and I will send you the link since I do not think I can post it here.

We will be heading to Nashville, TN for a mini vacation for the March 10 Character Auditions. More than likely, she will not get chosen as a character but she wanted the experience to at least try. Either way, it will be fun and she is still going to Disney!

For those interested, she will not be receiving co-op or internship credit, so she will be take a leave of absence for a semester to do the program. Her college allows one semester leave of absence without affecting scholarships.

[joanna71985]

Congrats to her!

[forever a child]

Thank you Joanna and everyone else! I just thought I would share a quick update.

My DD begins her spring break next week. As I mentioned, she will be attending Character Auditions in Nashville on the 10th, so I will be picking her up from Cleveland and then on monday we head to Nashville for 2 days. I know she is excited just to get to experience the auditions, no matter what.

Fortunately, she has a lot going on with school (she is in a sorority, so they have been busy with their new member initiation, big/little reveal, preparing for greek week) not to mention mid term exams, etc. So she has been limited on spending time on the DCP Facebook page (which is good with all the drama that goes on there). However, she is on the DCP Fall 2015 Christian page and she has managed to find 5 other girls all arriving the same date as her for roommates. So now the girls will have the summer to get to know one another a little before they room together in the fall.

At this point, everything is pretty much set. If anything interesting happens, I will share about the auditions. I know a good majority of students are still waiting to hear if they have been accepted to the program. I am thankful she didn't have to wait. It is so hard to know what you need to be doing for housing arrangements for the following school year if you are not sure if you will be in classes or at DCP for the semester. DD will be taking one of the rooms at her sorority house since one of her sisters will be graduating in the fall and leaving, so that was another issue that worked out well and fell into place for our planning purposes.

Best of luck if you are still waiting for your acceptance letter. I think the majority of them will be going out in March!

[forever a child]

So I thought I would post an update!

Not much to report. My DD did not attend the Nashville auditions this last week. We were planning on it since she was home on spring break. But she came home and pretty much got a cold immediately! It just seemed like she really needed the extra sleep and some time to be lazy. She is in an engineering program and so the stress is alway pretty high for her (one of the reasons I suggested she reduce her course work load each semester and add another semester of classes and the DCP program on in the first place). I let her decide and since she really was happy with getting her first choice role of lifeguarding, she decided to skip them. So we slept in, LOL!

She has found 5 other girls through the Facebook Christians page to room with. So they are private chatting and getting to know one another better. So she is happy with that!

We did go shopping and she found a couple of outfits on sale to take to FL for her Disney class and the Traditions class since they are business casual, plus she got a wrist watch since she will need one as a lifeguard.

That is really all that I can share. I was hoping that she could have gone to the audition for the experience but it just seemed like resting for a while before she headed back to finish her semester made more sense. She headed back today and I already miss her so much!

[forever a child]

Just a quick update...

There is not much to report. I will update through out the late summer as we get closer to my DD's check in date of Aug 24th of anything relevant prior to arrival.

She is back at school and they are completing their Greek Week competition...so that has kept her mind from being anxious about DCP. Honestly, she got accepted and found her roommates and pretty much as been done with things on the DCP Facebook group which seems to have it's period of high drama, so that is probably best.

I booked two nights at ASSports with the summer discount. We have reservations for Boma's for one of the nights. I might try to sneak in a reservation for myself for a Disney tour. I have always wanted to do one!

I really don't anticipate she will need to do too much shopping for things prior to move in. She has most items in her apartment on campus of anything she might need. We have begun moving some of her larger items out already. Normally we would get a summer storage rental unit but she will not need anything for well over a year, so we are moving her stuff back home. When she returns in Jan 2016, she will be moving into the sorority house for the semester, so again, everything is provided. It looks like the Disney apartments supply most everything too, so anyone who is flying to Orlando to do the program really shouldn't have to worry about furniture, household items, kitchen items, etc. It is all provided.

Well, if you have a question...feel free to post or PM me!