| Berklee loses a lot of students throughout the year, many because they found employment in their desired field. The running gag is that they have failed you if you stick around long enough to graduate. They offer spring admission to a goodly number of the students they accept as a way of getting back to something like full capacity at the start of the spring semester. The old running gag was that anyone could get in but almost nobody graduated. That has changed in recent years and I understand that they now accept fewer than a third of their applicants. The long and short of it is that your son should realize that by getting any offer of admission there he is well above average in their applicant pool.
He might think of this as a half gap year in which he could be studying guitar without having to worry about school, and also earning some money to put toward the cost of Berklee. That could actually work out pretty well. |