JAMAII MELVIN,
18, Florida, Dance
When did you find
out you got in? The end
of March. I missed
a call, and then they called
my mom, I guess, because
I got a text from her
saying “Is your phone on?
Is everything all right?
Did you happen to get
any phone calls?” Then
I was just sitting around
dying and waiting,
and nally I got a call
from a 212 number.
And I thought, OMG,
that’s a New York number.
How does it feel to
be here?Have you
ever heard of impostor
syndrome?
Ye s .Well, there seems
to be a little bit of that
going around in the
freshman class. There are
only 24 dance students,
and thousands and
thousands applied. We’ve
all been sort of wondering
if we got in by mistake.
But then, actually, the
president of the school
said during his welcome
speech, “Don’t worry,
you didn’t get in by
mistake.” So that was
pretty reassuring.
Photographs by Kyle Dorosz
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