Anyone know when to expect Miami Frost decisions?
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Yeah, we’re a full performance degree at mainly top tier schools and none of them release decisions until late March, and March 31 for Juilliard. Very frustrating given the BU audition was mid January!
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we have four of the same as you, and from our experience, Jacobs will reply quickly. Looks like BU and Eastman will be later from what others say. I don’t know what to expect from SFCM, would love to know if/when they’re releasing info. I don’t know anyone else on this page has mentioned SFCM, would love to hear from others about their experience with them if anyone out there has any 
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Hi! My child returned from NYU this evening. What an experience! NYC was so exciting. What an opportunity to do music in the city. Hope your son had a nice experience.
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I went to the SFCM website and found this online:
- Mid-March - Admission decisions released
- April 1 - Financial aid statements released
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thanks! it’s so hard to keep it all straight!
There needs to be a nail-biting emoji. That is all.
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Now that auditions are complete for my D (BM Viola), we are getting a bit of hassle from multiple profs trying to get her take on if their school is her top choice as they determine scholarships. This was unexpected for me, as I thought we would get the financial aid offers and could then make decisions based on COA. It seems she will not get the scholarship offers with these schools unless she confirms it is a top choice or the number one, and they need to know now.
She has also been guilt-tripped in some of the messaging, implying that a deserving student will not get a scholarship if she rejects the offer. One school she replied vaguely to since she was still auditioning made a merit offer but is asking for a decision by 4/1. I’m assuming we won’t have all of the financial offers back by then and I thought the deadline was 5/1.
I get that this is the game and $ could be lost, but in a way this does not seem fair. If she earned the merit $ shouldn’t it be offered regardless? Anyone else going through this? We are trying to be as honest as possible with the schools, but she is seriously undecided at this point and has tried hard not to have a favorite because we always knew decisions would be based on the financial offers.
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That seems odd to be asked if the school is a “top choice” before even being admitted? We absolutely will need the offers from all schools before making a decision as my kid does not really have a top choice and, honestly, if a school chooses to give a huge scholarship, that would show they want him and will factor a great deal into the final choice. Just tell the schools that they are all your top choice and that you will not be able to give any final decisions until you see the results from all schools. Can you share what schools are doing this to you?
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These are for her acceptances so far, and all of them are state schools. Yes - seems like solid advice to just tell them all they are the top, even if we have an inkling they are not! But the guilt trip kind of worked. LOL
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Also, unless you wait until April 30 or something to “deny” the schools you didn’t choose, the money they may have given you in scholarships, as far as I know, just goes back in the pot to be offered to someone else. At least in our case, app fees, audition fees, audition trips (flight, hotel, food, uber, etc.) cost WAYY too much for me to feel bad about the colleges now having to make us an offer and wait for us to think about it. If they wanted my kid that bad, they could have offered a massive scholarship upon seeing the prescreen videos before we spent thousands on all these audition trips. But they didn’t, so they owe all their applicants an offer and time to think about it.
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ditto this.
For many families and these young musicians, there isn’t a definite top school or studio without considering the cost. The fact that the students have taken the time and effort to apply and audition is strong enough indicator that the school is one of the top choices. Performing arts applications take way more work than regular application. These kids can’t “shotgun” it.
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It’s a yes from U Michigan. His top choice studio for cello!!!
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This waiting is hard! Congrats on those who have their results.
Not to get too political, but all the DOE and federal funding stuff being up in the air on top of us waiting to hear back from two of our three top contenders is too much uncertainty!
On a positive note - we have one acceptance at a University with an excellent cello professor my teen would be more than happy to work with. So the uncertainty of the other options isn’t as dire as it feels.
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That would be stressful. Can you tell them that unfortunately finances are a determining factor, so you will need to compare offers and see what is potentially affordable? Maybe that would also motivate them to offer more?
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@Flyerette can your kid write to what would be the top #1 choice school if finances were not an issue, and say you are my #1 but my final choice depends on affordability.
I have read about this happening in the past. Schools are apportioning aid and it’s tough when kids apply to so many schools. On the other hand, kids should be able to wait for all acceptances.
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I’ve also been surprised by admissions to schools suddenly turning into conversations that are clearly trying to suss out our son’s interest level. My best guess is that they’re trying to figure out how big the merit offer needs to be to get our son to commit without going too high. And they clearly want to know as early as possible if he’s not going to accept so they can move on. This is understandable, and I think it’s really between just 3 schools at this point, so he could probably start declining the others. But at the same time, he hasn’t heard back from 6 schools still (including one that’s on his short list), and has 0 merit offers at this point - just verbal assurances from 2 schools that it will be a lot, and that he can negotiate for more if we need it.
FWIW, the schools that have had these conversations with him have made it clear that no matter what, he has until 5/1 to decide. We haven’t had anyone tell him that he has to decide sooner.
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Yes thanks! How nice of you to write! Yes my son liked the NYU audition best of all. He liked actually getting to play whole songs. He also recognized some of the other auditioners from other activities they had done, so that was really neat to be exposed to a wider circle of musicians. He had lots of compliments for the other kids he heard. I hope your son enjoyed it too! Best of luck on all the applications.
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I’d like to chime in on this topic of merit/top school dilemma that @Flyerette has brought to our attention. My son was asked point blank after an audition where a said school fell in comparison to the other schools he was auditioning at. Then in the acceptance letter from this music school, they asked for his response within 2 weeks! This was 2.5 weeks ago! We all thought, how odd - how can you say you’re going when you are still waiting for merit and acceptances from lots of schools including this one! Then he got the merit award from this music school which was quite generous. He will not be attending this school, but this price point is very low, and I’m proud of my son. What we will do, as he gets merit, is weigh out the schools objectively, and each offer can be used in that same objective way as leverage with other schools. I do not think this is sneaky or in poor taste. I think it is smart. School is expensive, and in my opinion, our kids’ skills are valuable. Just like athletes’ skills are valuable. This is how we are thinking.
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All this talk about our students waiting for offers to come in and decisions to be made got me thinking. I wonder if professors are likewise excited/waiting to see who they get to teach.
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