D was waitlisted at Eastman, but she’s still pretty happy because she felt like that audition went horribly and at least now she feels like she has a shot. Anyone have any advice for what to include in her letter of continued interest??
Update on Carnegie Mellon, they send out an update. Rejection…not sure why they wait listed her for a few days…then rejected in less than a week. She did not travel for auditions, they had someone come in to LA…in her opinion that was her best audition by far. Not sure why she got into every other place, maybe in-person auditions at the university premises really do matter more. She is not sad ( her dream school said Yes), this is just information for you to digest and maybe explain why some schools may reject you even if you had your best audition there.
i think it is a futile effort to reason with music college admissions. we will never know what they were thinking, the best assumption is there is someone out there better than us. use that as motivation and practice harder.
Maverick8 BM Violin Performance
3/16 Bard Conservatoy, email to portal
3/21 Boston Univ, email to portal
3/27 Eastman & U. of Rochester dual degree, email to portal
Still waiting for two others, maybe til 3/31.
Anyone know if you would even get a merit award if you got off a waitlist?
@MezzoMama that is strange to hear- but thanks for the info. My D is on the priority waitlist for CMU and I wonder if the same will happen. She also did the LA audition and was only 70% voice at the time from a bad respiratory infection.
I totally agree there is no rhyme or reason to this process. When all is said and done, I’m going to write some reflections about all of this.
Anyone know if you would even get a merit award if you got off a waitlist?
@MezzoMama sorry about CMU. However, look at your girl go!!! Accepted at some really exceptional schools. CMU’s loss for sure!
While you may perceive to have had a great audition, remember other applicants may have had great auditions too! Ultimately, the panel has to rank students, and you may have been #11 and they only are offering admission to the top ten, hoping for a yield of 5. To deny in a week may speak to how quickly numbers 1-10 replied, and they were quickly aware that their positive responses meant they would not have to go to the wait list to get their desired yield.
Anyone waiting for Miami Frost decision? Updates have been posted on CaneLink.
——Anyone know if you would even get a merit award if you got off a waitlist?—-
Yes, It’s possible. I know a musician who was waitlisted but received a phone call from a director at private conservatory in 3rd week of April and got a very nice offer (about half tuition scholarship) in 3-4 days later.
@JeJeJe did that student deposit to secure their place at that private conservatory?
Deposit when he was waitlisted? I don’t know…I just don’t think so…Can any schools possibly ask for a deposit to waitlisted students???
My daughter was accepted to Rice this evening. (email portal)
@NECJ97’ s musician has chosen! @cellistamadre TOO! Congrats!
4HSKIDS (daughter) BM Songwriting and VP
1/31 Berklee (email to portal)
angelcatcher (Son) BM Jazz Studies Bass
Wayne State (email to portal + mail)
MSU (email to portal + mail)
2/24 Univ Michigan SMTD (email to portal)
3/24 Northwestern Bienen & Weinberg (email to portal)
arkham (son)
12/19 Berklee BM VP (email to portal)
12/20 Loyola New Orleans BM Jazz Studies Voice (email to portal)
12/23 Adelphi BFA Theatre Arts: Acting (snail mail)
3/4 SUNY Purchase (regular mail)
3/5 UNT (email)
3/16 The New School for Jazz Voice
3/23 Temple University for Jazz Vocal
BenniesMom1 (son) Clarinet Performance
1/10 -Univ of Delaware (portal)
2/4 Rowan Univ School of Performing Arts BM Performance (portal)
2/5 Wells School of Music - West Chester Univ BM Performance (Accept’d message)
2/11 West Virginia Univ SOM BM Music Ed or BA Music
2/24 Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne -BM Performance & Music Technology(portal)
03/11 Kutztown Univ Department of Music - BA Music Performance Instrument (portal)
03/12 Tell School of Music, Millersville Univ - BM Music Performance & Music Industry(email to portal)
BigPapi2 (son) Viola Music Ed
Berklee
3/3 Ball State (email to portal)
bonfigleo (son) BM Horn Performance
2/7 Madison-Mead Witter (email)
2/20 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
Busy_Momma (son) Bassoon BM/BA Dual Degree
3/6 Univ Washington (portal)
3/24 Northwestern (portal)
3/24 Temple Univ/Boyer (portal)
cellistamadre (daughter) BM Cello Performance
1/24 Penn State (snail mail)
3/11 Ithaca College (portal)
3/22 Eastman (email to portal)
3/24 ASU School of Music in the Herberger Institute
ClassCompMom (son) BM Composition
3/3 NEC (email)
coloraturagirl (daughter) BM Vocal Performance (soprano)
University of Houston
Cal State Fullerton
San Diego State University
University of California- Irvine
Boston University
UCLA- waitlisted
CMU- waitlisted
NEC/Tufts Dual Degree
delynnel (son) BM Viola Performance
3/21 The Glenn Gould School (email)
3/23 CIM (email to portal)
3/24 Northwestern/Bienen (email to portal)
3/27 Rice/Shepherd
Doransa (son) BM Music Composition
2/10 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
2/17 CCM (email to portal)
3/21 Oberlin (email to portal)
3/23 Eastman (email to portal)
3/23 CIM (email to portal)
Elegie17 BM Classical VP Soprano
2/24 SUNY Purchase
3/12 Syracuse Setnor School of Music
3/21 IU/Jacobs
GalaOvsi (daughter) BM Classical VP Soprano
2/24 SUNY Purchase (email)
HiyaHoyas (daughter) BM Flute Performance
2/6 IU/Jacobs (email 2/6, snail mail 2/12)
2/24 Univ of Denver/Lamont School of Music (email to portal)
3/6 DePaul (email to portal)
3/6 Roosevelt CCPA (email to portal)
IronCitEE (daughter) BM Violin Performance
2/7 Duquesne (email 2/7 snail mail 2/12)
3/20 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
Jazzmom3 (Son) Vocal Performance
12/19 Berklee (email to portal)
12/6 LACM (email)
12/24 Belmont (snail mail)
3/5 UNT Jazz (email)
3/16 The New School Jazz (email to portal)
3/11 MEIS CU Denver (email)
3/20 NEC Contemporary Improvisation (email)
JoHollywood (son) MM Voice/Opera Tenor
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (phone call)
3/13 IU/Jacobs (email)
3/15 SFCM waitlisted (email)
3/15 Boston Conservatory (email)
Kean DMA Piano Performance
3/6 Rutgers (email)
3/14 Eastman (email to portal)
3/23 Cleveland Institute of Music (email to portal)
khalijahsmom MT
AMDA (email)
Maverick8 BM Violin Performance
3/16 Bard Conservatoy (email to portal)
3/21 Boston Univ (email to portal)
3/27 Eastman & Univ of Rochester dual degree (email to portal)
MezzoDadByNight - (Daughter) BM - Vocal Performance
12/14 SMU/Meadows EA
12/17 Baylor Univ EA
12/19 DePauw University (email)
3/18 Pepperdine University
3/21 Oberlin (email)
3/21 Carnegie Mellon (email)
3/23 Eastman (email to portal)
3/27 Rice/Shepherd (email to portal)
MezzoMama (daughter) BM Classical Vocal Performance Mezzo-Soprano
3/4 Chapman University
3/15 San Francisco Conservatory of Music
3/17 UC Santa Barbara (portal)
3/20 NEC
3/21 Carnegie Mellon waitlisted (Acceptd portal)
3/21 UCLA (portal)
3/26 USC/Thornton (portal)
mindyou BM Piano
12/19 Berklee (mail)
mom2clarinetobsessedkid BM Clarinet Performance
Temple Univ/Boyer
Shenandoah Conservatory
2/14 Univ of Michigan SMTD (email to portal)
3/20 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
3/22 Eastman (email to portal)
mominwestlake (son)
Boston Conservatory
NEC
Eastman Waitlisted
MomOfSingers (son) VP Bass-Baritone
2/19 Univ Michigan SMTD (email to portal)
2/24 Lawrence Conservatory (email to portal)
3/4 Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (message through GetAccptd)
3/21 Oberlin (email to portal)
3/23 Eastman
Momofviolinboy (son) BM Violin Performance
3/2 JMU (via email)
3/10 McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University (via email)
3/20 NEC (email)
3/21 Oberlin (portal)
Musicmom2two (daughter) BM Music Ed Soprano
Berklee College of Music
NECJ97 BM Jazz Studies Voice
North Central College
University of IL (portal)
Loyola New Orleans (email)
2/24 Univ of Denver/Lamont School of Music (portal)
3/14 Western MI (email)
3/27 Univ of Miami/Frost
OrangeJacket (daughter) Mezzo Soprano
Late November St. Mary’s Minnesota BFA Acting (snail mail)
12/13 Oklahoma City University BM Vocal Performance (email)
12/13 Baylor University BM Applied Music VP (snail mail)
2/11 UT Austin (email to portal)
pianissimolove Piano Performance
2/20 IU/Jacobs
3/7 UC Santa Barbara
Pocket22 (Daughter) - Popular Music Keyboard / Piano
12/7 Belmont - BM Commercial Music (mail)
12/11 CU Denver College of Arts and Media - MEIS (email to portal)
12/12 Lewis and Clark - BA Music (email to portal)
12/15 Cornish College of the Arts - BM (email to portal)
12/6 Univ of Oregon - BA Commercial Music (email to portal)
12/19 Berklee - BM (email to portal)
Scripps College BA Music
Occidental College BA Music
3/21 Oberlin (email to portal)
3/26 USC/Thornton
Racingfan53 Classical Mezzo-Soprano
12/? Azusa Pacific University BA Music (snail mail)
2/17 University of Kansas BME Music Education (email)
3/3 UNT BM Music Ed
3/10 CSUF BM Music Ed, email
3/26 USC/Thornton
raincat (son) BM Jazz Piano
12/19 Berklee (email to portal)
3/26 USC/Thornton
rubypiano (son) Piano/Keyboard Commercial Music and Jazz
12/18 Elon MPRA Program (email to portal)
1/30 Belmont (snail mail)
2/19 CalArts (email to portal)
2/24 Univ of Denver/Lamont School of Music (email to portal)
3/16 The New School
runninglate (daughter) BM Vocal Performance
1/14 Loyola New Orleans (email)
2/11 UT Austin (email to check portal)
2/26 CCM (email to portal)
2/28 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
3/15 SFCM (email to portal)
3/21 Oberlin
3/21 Carnegie Mellon (Acceptd)
Senior2016M
2/28 IU/Jacobs
3/13 Univ Michigan SMTD (email)
shulad (daughter) Violin Performance
IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
3/20 NEC
songbirdmama (daughter) MM Vocal Performance/Opera Soprano
2/13 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
3/3 Univ of Maryland Opera Studio - waitlisted
3/17 Bard Conservatory (email)
3/24 Mannes (email)
SongStress2024 (daughter) Soprano VP and Neuroscience
Duquesne Direct Admit Pre-Med
3/21 Boston Univ College of Fine Arts Scholar Vocal Performance
Syracuse Univ Neuroscience
American Univ Neuroscience
3/25 Vanderbilt/Blair Waitlisted
3/26 Northeastern Univ Neuroscience
tableforsix (son) BM Cello Performance
2/17 Univ Michigan SMTD (email to portal)
3/11 SMU/Meadows - recorded aud (email to portal)
3/20 NEC (email)
3/21 Oberlin (email to portal)
3/23 Eastman (email to portal)
3/23 CIM (email to portal)
teewhy (Daughter) BM VP Soprano
2/27 Memphis (email to portal)
2/28 TCU (snail mail)
2/28 West Virginia (email to portal)
3/5 UNT (GetAccptd)
3/21 IU/Jacobs (snail mail)
tubamama (son) Tuba Performance and Economics
12/6 Stanford (portal)
Congrats @NECJ97 and @cellistamadre @Pocket22 @tubamama @Kean and @Musicmom2two on completing this part of the journey!
Thank you!
Hi everyone! So nice to see all the acceptances! Just a quick update from me, checked my UMiami portal last night and I got waitlisted at Frost. Now we’re just waiting on NYU.
@tableforsix can you split the thread and post two instead of one?
@compmom absolutely could (I believe they did last year) but I’m trying to avoid it to keep things simple – for me. May have to anyway and that would be a good problem.
Our son (Violin Performance) was accepted into:
UCSB (portal)
CU Boulder (emails and portal)
UC Irvine (portal)
Chapman (emails)
Long Beach State (emails)
His top choice right now is CU so he can study jazz, electronic music composition and also violin performance. Can anyone send me a private message to talk about the experience at CU and UCSB for violin and professors?