<p>Has anyone else received a request for a You Tube video? I got one this week from Hotchkiss but I didn’t see it until late today and now it’s now past their noon deadline. Do I explain why it is late or just send it without an explanation?</p>
<p>What do you mean by a YouTube request</p>
<p>They asked for a music supplement, uploaded to you tube.</p>
<p>Ohh! I don’t play an instrument so I wouldn’t have got that. 
I think you should just send it, with an apology about being late. :)</p>
<p>I would upload and send the link immediately along with a quick note</p>
<p>A Sunday deadline? Wouldn’t worry about that, but if you’ve got footage, certainly send it along. They wouldn’t be asking if there wasn’t some interest! ;)</p>
<p>I know!! It was such a weird deadline. Superbowl Sunday. But thanks everyone for your advice (and I hope you are right, Pelicandad!!!)! I sent a note of explanation and they were really nice about extending.</p>
<p>Maybe they wanted something nice to listen to rather than the raucous din of the superbowl… ;-)</p>
<p>This is another classic example of the admissions offices being reasonable, which is the norm. Where they will get unreasonable is when you don’t do something they ask on time for no good reason (they have no good reason to admit kids who are unlikely to succeed, by not being timely over things they control), or when their real internal “we gotta have it to get our job done” deadline happens, which will be looming over the coming weeks (and is probably unknowable from the outside where we sit).</p>
<p>So if you do play three instruments, and they’re your main focus… and they never requested a youtube video from you, does that mean that they’re probably not interested in you? 
:(</p>
<p>Spldaisy, I don’t think that is the case at all. My primary instrument is one that everyone plays so they probably just want to know how I stack up against all the professional musicians looking at Hotchkiss for 10th. You probably play the oboe and they just put you automatically in the YES pile.
My school has no orchestra so it’s not something that would be known by my head of school or teachers since everything musical I do (and it is a lot) is on my own. I didn’t ask for a recommendation from my music teacher, but most musicians probably did for that extra rec.</p>
<p>chukkerhead; Do you play the violin? LOL just a guess, from the “one that everyone plays” and “orchestra” xD</p>
<p>Aaralyn, I do! I also play viola. What about you?</p>
<p>I play violin and piano. Such a typical Asian, I am. 
I sent in a CD recording of me playing both instruments though, instead of Youtube videos… Since Youtube is sort of completely blocked here in this wonderful country of China. xD</p>
<p>Hahaha you are so funny!<br>
So China-I just this morning read a story about a restaurant that opened in Beijing called The ***** House. Have you heard of this place? I couldn’t believe it. Food is served in replica toilets and bed pans. And it’s supposed to be really successful. I’m not making this up!</p>
<p>Wow I put in one * and it filled in the rest for me! But there are only four letters.</p>
<p>Turn off commenting on your video and make the link private.</p>
<p>I play the clarinet and saxophone. Those are pretty common instruments, I think. :/</p>
<p>chukkerhead; WOW really? I actually had no idea, but that sounds disgusting yet intriguing at the same time. </p>
<p>Spldaisy; Trust me, nowhere near as common as piano and violin xD</p>
<p>@chukkerhead omg are you talking about something similar to the modern toilet restaurant in taiwan? ([???](<a href=“moderntoilet.com.tw???%5B/url%5D”>moderntoilet.com.tw)</a>) (the one in hong kong closed down :()</p>
<p>Isn’t that the one that originally opened in Taichung?.. (The queer things that pop into your head when you’ve bounced/lived around Asia!) I bet the chain is pretty pricey, as all restaurants popular in Taiwan are. And why did we go from BS admissions to the Toilet Restaurant?</p>