| At DS's university, he had to be in the "ball park" for academic admissions. If the music department (a conservatory program within a university) REALLY wanted a student based on their audition, they could advocate with admissions but only so far. The student had to be at least close to the admissions standards of the school. The student still had to fulfill the core university requirements..oh...and pass them.
Re: U of Michigan...when DS applied to colleges (rolling admissions at the time), the students HAD to be accepted academically before their auditions were scheduled. We were not given the impression that their academic standard was lowered at ALL for prospective music majors. DS didn't apply there because his first SAT scores weren't in their range (second ones were quite good but he had made his college application decisions by then). The adcom that came to our region basically told us that the acceptance was not any more liberal for music majors. |