Momof2006

While my daughter did not ultimately get accepted into the MT program, all of the financial aid staff did everything possible to offer her the best possible outcome if she was accepted. To jump on the Debbie Byrne bandwagon, she called and reminded my daughter of the deadlines for her Presidential Scholarship essay and was so encouraging in the middle of an often overwhelming audition time. In fact I think one of my daughters favorite moments of the year was when she was first academically accepted at Otterbein. She returned home to a very excited message from Ms. Byrne notifing her of not only her acceptance, but scholarships and her nomination for the presidential scholarship. This was her first bit of good news in the angst ridden audition/application process that all these truly terrific kids undergo.

My daughter did not ultimately end up a fit at Otterbein, but she still is very positive about the time that Dr. John spent with her during her audition and how wonderful every staff member we both spoke with throughout the process. It is incredible that they all work so hard for so many students who may not even end up there, it would be so much easier to just let the audition process weed them out and then begin working on the behalf of those few students chosen. But they seemed to take the opposite approach if there was even the smallest chance a student would wind up there they were already fighting on your behalf.

Overall despite all the horror stories we heard, I would say she (and we as accompanying parents) were treated fairly and respectfully at almost all the schools my daughter applied to especially, Webster, PPU, Millikin, Carnegie Mellon. There were only a couple that we had trouble getting information from or the staff was more stand offish. So from just one more parent, thank you again for making a hard process more bearable for all our talented kids.