| Welcome Autmlvs615,
Sounds like you've got a busy, albeit organized plan for all involved. You appear to be calmly grounded in your knowlege of what's around and what's ahead. That's impressive. Great idea to keep your ears and eyes open. It helps to learn from those that have navigated these waters.
Congrats on your family's successes and your oldest son's performance and offers. It will help him alot during the year knowing he has those under his belt. He sounds like NFAA material. If he has not, he should consider applying ASAP. If he wins, those offers should double and come from the very best conservatories.
Meanwhile, don't diminish the value of those SATs. My D, a performance major, who absolutely knew that her top conservatory choices didn't care, figured she didn't care as well about her SATs. Much to her chagrin, I DID! During her senior year, after an extensive conservatory search, she bumped Shepherd School at Rice up above the top conservatories on her list- where if you make it through the auditions, you then have to be accepted at Rice. She was finally glad that I had made her study for her SATs. It enabled her to get her 1st choice in conservatories. You just never know!
Enjoy your kids summer programs. My 3 performers are in 3 different states at summer music festivals for the entire summer. We'll be on the road, traveling from one to the other, trying to catch at least 1 performance of each. Will you be able to catch a performance in Florence? Wouldn't that be terrific.
Best of luck! |