Currently... In... Submission

If there is anyone that I feel for out of all the applicants in the Facebook group, it's the poor kids that end up "in submission." It is a weird state that no one has any explanation for, not even Disney. My first application season in Fall 2013 for Spring 2014 was the first known occurrence of people ending up sitting "in submission" for the entire application season with a lot of them just getting "NLIC'd" before they even gotten a chance to take the WBI. The thing that sucks is that it seems like that there is no rhyme or reason for it. No one knows how you end up "in submission" or how you get out. Some people do end up getting their WBIs and others do not. 

I never really was "in submission." On both my first time applying and this time applying, I got my WBI within a couple of hours of submitting my application. Both times I applied on the first day, although I did apply later in the afternoon both times. This time, my sister and I applied at the same time, together, and both of us got our WBIs at the same time too. There is no reason. And it's frustrating, because a lot of people don't even get a fair shot.

That's the irritating thing about it is how "unfair" it feels. How do they determine based off of a basic application that you're not worthy of an interview? And I know that a lot of "real" jobs do the same thing. There are a lot of applications and resumes in the real world that never warrant an interview, but I feel like that's different because they look for experiences that would make you qualified for the job and if you don't have that experience, you don't get an interview because you probably can't do the job. But for the college program? There are plenty of people who do get WBIs and phone interviews AND ACCEPTED that have never had a single job their entire life. I lived with THREE GIRLS on my first program that never had jobs before coming to Disney. So how did Disney decide that they should move on to the WBI? 

The only thing I can think of is it comes down to what roles you put interest in. If you put extremely limited interests in only a few roles, maybe you are more likely to flip into "submission"? But maybe that's not true too. I don't know. No one knows. It even sounds like Disney Recruiting doesn't know. People say that they call casting and casting just kind of shrugs and says it's the computer system. How fucked is that? Ugh.

So listen to me, the potentially one person who may ever read this in coming years, if you are currently in submission, I FEEL FOR YOU AND I HOPE THAT YOU GET YOUR CHANCE TO SHINE.