The Disney College Program - Pros and Cons

[kimmar067]

For the CP, the semester you apply you have to be in college, so you could apply your last semester, and go after you graduate. I believe the PIs are applied for during either your junior or senior year.

...thanks for the info....

 

[LisaR]

....oh. So, it'll be much more difficult to get accepted to the PI then. I'm thinking that is what my DS will opt for, since he will be enrolling in a culinary program....I guess that he won't be able to check off as many choices for what he would like to be as a CM....

I was just searching the Disney website and saw that they have a specific intern program for those interested in culinary studies. I didn't read the information since my DD wouldn't be interested in this program but maybe it would be good for your son.

http://culinary.disneycareers.com/en/default/

 

[kimmar067]

I was just searching the Disney website and saw that they have a specific intern program for those interested in culinary studies. I didn't read the information since my DD wouldn't be interested in this program but maybe it would be good for your son.

http://culinary.disneycareers.com/en/default/

....thanks for the link - I'll be sure to check it out tomorrow....

 

[Elmo9607]

...what are those?

The CPer's get what is called the 'Blue Main Gate Pass' at the start of their program. It comes with 6 days of park admission on it. Anyone can use the pass, but they MUST have the pass's owner accompany them at the gate and show their cast member ID. The passes can be used by multiple people...I used mine when my boyfriend came to visit and another time when family came in.

A caveat-it is NOT a park hopper. Each time the pass goes through the gates it takes a day off. It states that the cast member must accompany their guests in the park, but I let my sister in with it one day and went to work right after and nothing was said.

It is a very convienient thing to have. However, the days expire at the end of the program, so if it's not used, it goes to waste.

 

[ladypage]

The CPer's get what is called the 'Blue Main Gate Pass' at the start of their program. It comes with 6 days of park admission on it. Anyone can use the pass, but they MUST have the pass's owner accompany them at the gate and show their cast member ID. The passes can be used by multiple people...I used mine when my boyfriend came to visit and another time when family came in.

A caveat-it is NOT a park hopper. Each time the pass goes through the gates it takes a day off. It states that the cast member must accompany their guests in the park, but I let my sister in with it one day and went to work right after and nothing was said.

It is a very convienient thing to have. However, the days expire at the end of the program, so if it's not used, it goes to waste.

Not quite. CPs do get a maingate, with 6 days on it, for up to 3 people for each day. So even if you only bring in one person, you use up the whole day, so if you can bring in 3, why not? And like you said, you don't have to bring in the same people. What's not quite right is this: What they do, is when they bring them in to the park, they get their own ticket, which is a park hopper. So it doesn't use up extra days at all, and technically you dont have to be with them if they decide to go to another park later on, it's just a regular ticket. There are however rules that say you have to spend so much time with them, so you're not just giving out your maingate passes to total strangers pretty much, or trying to sell them.

 

[mickeysgal]

Well the reputation you have all ready stated as a party school - the nickname... Vista Lay.

Probably just has that nickname because at all those parties they eat Frito Lay potato chips

Liz

I'm sure that's it. Thanks, (I think) for explaining it.

 

[Elmo9607]

Not quite. CPs do get a maingate, with 6 days on it, for up to 3 people for each day. So even if you only bring in one person, you use up the whole day, so if you can bring in 3, why not? And like you said, you don't have to bring in the same people. What's not quite right is this: What they do, is when they bring them in to the park, they get their own ticket, which is a park hopper. So it doesn't use up extra days at all, and technically you dont have to be with them if they decide to go to another park later on, it's just a regular ticket. There are however rules that say you have to spend so much time with them, so you're not just giving out your maingate passes to total strangers pretty much, or trying to sell them.

Forgot about that! Geesh, just when you think you get something right

My experience with the Maingate was a bit confusing. The first couple times I used it, I didn't get the extra ticket for some reason. Since I didn't know better, I used it twice in one day, which took two days off since I didn't have the hopper for my DBF to use. I still don't know why that happened, and the CM's at the gate never indicated something was wrong.

I did get the hoppers when I used it with my sister and family, about two weeks after the first time I used it.

 

[dakcp2001]

....awwww....

[...sorry, the mom in me just came out! ]

Thanks for that!

 

[dakcp2001]

Do they pay CPS more than minimum wage now or something? How much did you pay for rent? I don't remember the exact dollar amount, but rent was a huge portion of my bills. We made minimum wage, but could do OT.

 

[metalis4ever]

I had a friend who lived there who said he heard it was voted secondon the list of places you are mostly likely to have "relations". Number one was the Playboy Mansion. Doubt that was true, but found it really funny.

HAHA, I believe it is true, I remember hearing right before I participated in Spring 1999 that Vista Way was written up in an Adult Magazine as one of the top year round College party places. When I was there it seemed as though there was a themed party every weekend somewhere in Vista Way: Toga Party, Swimsuit Party, Halloween Party etc....

When I participated they told us that there were 4 girls to 1 guy, so yeah

Having said all that, I have a feeling a lot has changed at Vista Way since the 90's. From what I gather from this thread the security has tightened up quite a bit since then, I doubt the things we got away with so easily back in the 90's are acceptable these days.

Well the reputation you have all ready stated as a party school - the nickname... Vista Lay.

Probably just has that nickname because at all those parties they eat Frito Lay potato chips

Liz

Totally because of the chips

 

[ugadog99]

This was just sent out in a CP email: As of August 1, Price Management Group will no longer be with the apartments. They will now be managed by Lincoln Management. I don't think anyone really knows what kind of changes, if any, might be in store, but I thought I'd pass that along. If I hear more, I'll let you all know.

 

[tar heel]

Unless things have changed recently, the CP guest passes are definitely park hoppers. The CP kid has to be with you the first time you enter the park and they give each guest a one-day hopper. After that you have a ticket and can (perhaps not according to the rules) can stay until the park closes even though your CP kid leaves earlier to get some sleep.

When my son was in the CP, they sent him a coupon book of "extras" that included a couple additional days of passes and various coupons. He also got 40% off on merchandise for a couple weeks -- he did his Christmas shopping then.

My son got paid slightly more than minimum wage and some roles paid a little more than others.

 

[Traveliz]

This was just sent out in a CP email: As of August 1, Price Management Group will no longer be with the apartments. They will now be managed by Lincoln Management. I don't think anyone really knows what kind of changes, if any, might be in store, but I thought I'd pass that along. If I hear more, I'll let you all know.

That can only be good news - I personally as a parent thought they managed those apartments terribly and established adults (not people just passing through) would not have stood for some of their policies. I am talking about how if you extended you had to leave your apartment clean (so they could clean) and then move to a new one (and the one my daughter and 5 others went to looked like someone had totally trashed it...one whole bedroom was filled with shredded paper, there was food all over the place; and the new people moving in couldn't put their stuff on the floor they had to put it up so cleaning could get there...that was the whole point...but I digress. They also made my daughter and her roommate move out of their under occupied apartment (3 others had been termed two months before) when there was only two weeks left in the program and there was no convincing them that the girls should not be forced to move with two weeks left. Also they gave basically no turn around time for moving. Ok well anyway anxious to hear if the new group is any better.

Unless things have changed recently, the CP guest passes are definitely park hoppers. The CP kid has to be with you the first time you enter the park and they give each guest a one-day hopper. After that you have a ticket and can (perhaps not according to the rules) can stay until the park closes even though your CP kid leaves earlier to get some sleep.

When my son was in the CP, they sent him a coupon book of "extras" that included a couple additional days of passes and various coupons. He also got 40% off on merchandise for a couple weeks -- he did his Christmas shopping then.

My son got paid slightly more than minimum wage and some roles paid a little more than others.

The coupon book sounds like the Family Holiday Celebration that comes out every year around the end of October and good through around Valentines Day. Sort of a Holiday gift extra with really good coupons, etc. All CMs get that every year.

Liz

 

[TexasGirl]

Fascinating thread. I wish I'd known about it when I was in college.

 

[kimmar067]

....There are however rules that say you have to spend so much time with them, so you're not just giving out your maingate passes to total strangers pretty much, or trying to sell them.

...how would they know if the CM is accompanying the guests or not, and for the specific amount of time?

 

[kimmar067]

This was just sent out in a CP email: As of August 1, Price Management Group will no longer be with the apartments....

...which one is that? Or does that pertain to all the apartments?

 

[Traveliz]

...which one is that? Or does that pertain to all the apartments?

Price managed all three of the CP housing complexes.

Liz

 

[kimmar067]

...well, it'd certainly give me more peace-of-mind if it is managed better...

 

[ladypage]

...how would they know if the CM is accompanying the guests or not, and for the specific amount of time?

They really wouldn't, I would guess. But if you're in that 0.05% that got caught for not staying with the group long enough, you could get termed.

It's just to discourage selling the tickets, or giving them away to random people. It's a perk for you to treat your family and friends, not to be just given away. I knows of a few people who tried selling them on Craigslist and such. Disney had someone contact them as if to buy them, and then fired them directly after the "transaction" went down.

 

[dakcp2001]

When I was a cp, we did not get any guest passes, our managers were allowed to let our guests in if they wished. That is a nice perk. Do cps still make min wage?