| My son is going to Elon in the fall – final decision!!!
Below is the paragraph I put on the thread about why did you select the school that you did. Elon – Wow! It seems like a dream school – wonderful caring faculty, talented students who support each other, happy people that are having a blast, great academics, and all of this on a beautiful campus, in a great state, at a reasonable price, in a university that is moving up all the time in national rankings. What more could you ask for? It just seems to have that kind of specialness that is hard to explain until you’ve been there. To be honest, while I was personally impressed with many things at many schools, Elon to me from the first visit FELT like the right place for him to go. We’ve now been there 4 times! We’ve absolutely loved the shows we’ve seen and the people we’ve met. My son was very thankful to be accepted to their MT program. Lastly, he is going to get to work with some Elon people in the show he is in during June! I can’t say enough good things about Elon, so I’ll hush. Here is the duplicate from the other thread:
Why Elon (speaking from my perspective rather than my son’s): over a two year period, my son and I visited 24 colleges. Out of those, he carefully selected and applied for 2 schools with no audition and auditioned for 9 programs. My son chose Elon after really liking all the programs where he auditioned and where he was accepted (he could have been very happy at any of them). After being accepted into programs, he spent time evaluating the curriculum offerings and requirements and found them to be different. In this process, he determined that he preferred a BFA degree rather than a BM. He likes the course offerings and requirements in MT at Elon. He also likes the flexibility to have electives in each of the MT areas to the extent desired (so that not every course is specified for the whole 4 years). Elon also has a great visual art department, where he can continue this area of interest (he has won awards for his painting). He will also be part of the Elon College Fellows program, which will be a challenging academic path (he is blessed to have excelled academically). In addition, he decided he wants a campus experience and that he likes a smaller program with more individual attention. While all of the schools have excellent faculty that he likes very much, we are very fond of the people we’ve come to know at Elon. See the beginning of the Elon thread for my initial thoughts about Elon, from way before we started this crazy audition year. I’m a happy mom! He is a happy young man and is also glad the audition year is behind him. |