Does anyone know if students who are applying to Jacobs at IU will find out about their acceptance to the university before hearing the decision for Jacobs?
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All three of my kids who attend/attended Jacobs received university acceptance first. All 3 applied early action. One found out in November, one December, and one January (the FAFSA mess last year slowed everything down). Only 2 had to prescreen and they had those results mid December. The past few years instate voice did not have to prescreen so my youngest (last year) only did an on campus audition. I think the prescreening is back this year though?? Their auditions were January through March and all of them had those results within 2 weeks. Best of luck to your student:).
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Thank you @musicmomtimes3
He is percussion performance and has a pre screen. He has submitted that. They are due by Dec 1, so I anticipate him finding out if he has an audition in December. Audition dates are in January and February.
We are OOS. What has bern your experience with merit from admissions and merit from the audition?
I am sending a link. Jacobs does it a little differently, and it is explained there. All academic and talent merit scholarships (excluding selective scholarships which your student can apply to separately) are given through Jacobs. My kids did not receive their academic/talent merit offers until around April 1. My oldest who had exceptional high school academics was given the most academic money. My son who barely made the general IU academic requirements received none. They all received talent merit of varying levels. My oldest ended up with about 3/4 tuition covered, my other two about 1/3. We are instate so you would need to talk to someone OOS for more detail on their offers. You can go back to last year’s acceptance thread in this music major forum to see what offers were made to IU OOS kids then: Acceptance Thread for Class of '28 Undergrad/'26 Grad Music Majors - #181 by TigerLily52.
Financial Aid & Costs: Admissions: Jacobs School of Music: Indiana University Bloomington
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Thank you very much
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I am just now checking in after a while so sorry for the late reply. First year dual degree students do live at Peabody, but they are not limited to Peabody classes. To the contrary, they all have to take a freshman seminar like other Hopkins students in the fall and a “reintroduction to writing” class like other Hopkins freshmen in the spring. All the dual degree kids my daughter speaks about are also taking at least one other class in their major. Our daughter is taking the introductory required course for her major (it is a fall and spring thing). She is not STEM, but most of her dual degree friends are. Some are trying to take two other Hopkins classes–calculus and their science–others are only trying to do one additional Hopkins class as a freshman. Three Hopkins classes as a freshman is hard because you do have a very heavy music load for the first two years or so. But you don’t have to take all your music courses on schedule. It is a 5 year program. It is doable. Our daughter loves her experience!
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@operalovermom, thank you so very much for your response! This is super helpful to imagine what it’s like to be a freshman at Peabody/JHU. Being 5 year program should definitely help to pace yourself and set challenging yet more realistic schedules/goals every year.
I apologize if this has already been asked & answered, I’m behind on reading but am trying to help a panicked kid. For prescreens, can each piece be its own recording, or do some schools require all the material to be in a single take?
I’m specifically curious about University of Cincinnati and Oberlin. I’m pretty sure for UMich, Boston University, and Indiana University each piece can be recorded separately.
In our experience, each piece can be a separate take. There should be directions on each school’s website. If it is not clear, I instructed my son to call for clarification.
And if helps your kid’s panic, my son is just recording now. He seems to thrive on waiting to the last minute. Luckily it is for grad school so I am not part of the process. I tend to panic on his behalf. 
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Thanks. My son hasn’t recorded anything. I think it’s because he thought he had to do it in one take (that’s what his youth symphony required so it’s all he knew). One piece just isn’t ready yet so he’s been blocked. When I told him I thought it could be all separate he said - “oh! Well let’s record everything except that one piece tonight!” Huge sigh of relief that we might finally get some recordings solidified, or at least learn what we don’t know. I had no idea how overwhelming applying as a music major was going to be for him. It’s so much more work than it was for my older son applying as an engineer.
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Also, while this may be obvious, he can mix and match various takes to meet the requirements for each particular program.
So one sonata might work for several schools. One etude might work for a few others. The only time we have found that they want a single take is with multiple movements of the same concerto.
Good luck!
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For Oberlin, each piece is its own separate file. I’ve not heard of any school asking for a single take of multiple pieces.
Breathe-- we all know how stressful this is!
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Have a little downtime at work so I thought I would share some unsolicited advice.
It seems that around Thanksgiving (very late this year!), prescreen results start to trickle in and accelerate in early December. Still it seems that the largest volume comes in bx mid Dec to mid Jan. Remember schools close for an extended time over the end of year break. So, while you are anxiously awaiting good news right before the holidays, the school may already be closed!
Many moons ago, my D needed to rearrange her schedule (not uncommon) and move a late audition to earlier. It was early January with no response from that school. I did call to see if would be possible to move the date if she ever passed her prescreen. I was told that her results were probably already in the system and they just hadn’t gone out yet since she had a later audition date…and the person quickly put me on hold for the results. I remember this as I got nervous. They came back on the line and said that she had passed and worked with me to change the date. The lesson is: if you need the results due to airline tickets or rearranging the schedule, it is okay to call. The student was helpful and understanding…as they had gone through it before. It would be rare that you would be talking with a “decision maker”…just an assistant or a student working the phones. They can be very helpful. And, as a parent, I did make “administrative calls”. Some may prefer students to do this. Still I would never communicate with faculty as a parent.
I hope that this helps a few. Hang in there over the next few weeks!
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Getting down to the wire at our house… only Juilliard songs and USC personal videos to go. We had a little hiccup last weekend when S25 made plans with two fellow student musicians in one of his NYC groups to record prescreens for two of them. S25 had five songs to record and his mother dropped him off at 2:30 PM at one of the kid’s elite NYC private school to do his thing. Turns out that the student that attended the school was accompanied by both of their parents AND their music teacher who had to be there while they recorded.
THREE HOURS LATER, when his mother came to pick him up, they hadn’t recorded A SINGLE ONE OF HIS SONGS. The parents and music teacher had them perform MULTIPLE takes of that students songs and they ran out of time. The mother of the student apologized to S25’s mother and said they’d make plans to spend time at their music program the next day getting his songs done. My son just didn’t feel like he had any agency, and was very frustrated that they were doing multiple takes of the same song. By the time they were done, they were DONE. My wife was pretty upset, but didn’t want to make a scene in front of the kids since S needs to play with this person every Sunday for the rest of the year. They got home told me the story and I was beyond irate.
Of all the times S has recorded prescreens (13 in all) I never dreamed of being in the same room with him. Can you imagine, these two kids with the same task for the same reason on the exact same schedule, and these parents did this? Of course there wasn’t the opportunity to record the next day. S texted the other student to see if they are available this Saturday, but no commitment. Anyway, good news is that he got a couple of college players to accompany him this week and he’s done except for the super esoteric songs required at Juilliard.
NYU was the only school that seemed to me to want songs in one file, but I think that is because they want the prescreen in the form of a YouTube link sent in a separate email to one of the Jazz faculty. Definitely the outlier. Oberlin used play along files that were to be uploaded separately. Thanks again for the 500mb tip, it definitely saved us, and S and I are getting pretty proficient at DaVinci Resolve, which I highly recommend for editing.
Good luck everyone, and I can’t wait to hear about everyone’s prescreen successes!
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I think Eastman required them to be in one file, but they did NOT require them to be one continuous take. We did multiple takes of two of my daughter’s three songs, and then we edited the best ones together into one file. As long as you aren’t actually editing the singing/playing part of the video, it’s fine to do it that way.
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I perhaps read the initial question wrong- I thought the poster was asking if the recording has to be all one take, ie a single succession of pieces, not separate recording stitched together as one file for submission.
Sorry if I answered the wrong question!
But still no- I can’t recall any school asking for a single take of multiple songs. Perhaps a single file of all pieces but I don’t recall that at all either. But S22 didn’t apply to many schools.
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You understood me correctly! For his youth orchestra, he had to play a major scale, a major arpeggio, a minor scale, a minor arpeggio, and then some number of excerpts and a solo piece all in a single take with no stopping, no editing, no stitching together allowed. He just assumed it was the same for the prescreen videos. I was pretty sure he could record each piece/excerpt individually this time, but he wouldn’t believe me, so I told him I’d check here. Three of his schools explicitly said he they could be individual recordings, but the other two weren’t 100% clear. Thanks to everyone for confirming what I thought! I think he is hugely relieved and is ready to start recording the individual pieces (finally). I now understand why he felt like the task was insurmountable. I wish I’d realized sooner that he thought he had to get a single take with every piece in it all at once. That would have been incredibly hard to do.
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Oh I’m so glad.
My son did his on separate weekends! He’s voice so it would have been too taxing to do all of the required pieces on one day- at least for him!
Best of luck to yours- I’m sure he’s going to do well!
Trying to figure out whether Oberlin allows piano accompaniment on the concerto recording for prescreen (violin). I think the answer is no, it needs to be unaccompanied. My student is recording with piano tomorrow for scholarship application and concerto competition application and curious if they will need to do a second unaccompanied recording. I thought the answer was on the website. I am trying to be supportive and help find this answer for my kiddo, though of course I wish they’d have already communicated with admissions to ask.
Another prescreen question - do you all think that a spoken introduction is okay if the website is silent on that point? Again, just hoping student can use same recording for multiple schools.