| From our experience last year, you will receive tons of mail from admissions departments for all the colleges, so try not to read too much into any envelope you get! I KNOW it's nerve wracking!
Specific to B-W, my D was accepted out of last year's fall audition. She found out in early December online (which apparently they had tried to fix so that kids wouldn't find out that way, but it didn't work and she had a message that said something like "Congratulations on your acceptance to the conservatory"), but then received a large envelope in the mail around mid-December. The letters did go out earlier the year before. I know that last year, we were told they were mailing the letters on the last day of their fall semester. I think they did not want to deal with acceptances/rejections questions and phone calls while fall semester was still in session. We had heard from a friend who was a freshman MT at the time (now a sophomore) that they had chosen 4 out of the fall auditions within a week of those auditions, but he did not know WHICH 4, so we were all on pins and needles until she read it online about a month later! Good luck to your son! | 
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