Admitted to Mannes but...

Mezzo_sMama
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:20:20 +0000

If she wants to attend Mannes, she needs to get in touch with their financial aid officer immediately and let him/her know the situation. A grad student applies under their own finances, so she needs to be honest with them and ask what the possiblilities are for work-study/ assistantships and the availability for off-campus employment.

She could pay her deposit to Mannes and then wait and see if she comes off of a waitlist at another school. Or she could take a gap year-which most VP students do now- and go through the audition process again next year; but she should make sure that she continues lessons during that time.

I’m sorry that I can’t offer any more help but your daughter isn’t alone. An unusually high number of voice students were accepted to their “dream schools” thois year but received little or no funding. It’s the end result of the rapid expansion of VP programs in undergrad and too many students being poured onto the market.