S got the NYU email moments ago… jazz performance
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We did also for NYU jazz
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ok, great… still don’t know if he made it in, he’s at a rehearsal now, incommunicado until he gets home for dinner east coast time. I’m dying rn. Did your kid make it?
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Yes! He did get into NYU. 
But he didn’t get an email. It was in his portal. Hope for good news for you guys today!
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Thank you for this information! I’ll have my daughter check it out!
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I hear you. We are in the home stretch!
Is anyone with nyu acceptances see financial aid offers yet? Seems to be missing for us right now…
Accepted to Tisch but no indication of merit or financial aid offer..Not sure if NYU provides any merit $$ though.
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Replying to add that this is accurate for undergraduate applicants only!
I went to an admissions meeting there and they explained that for undergrad, the music admissions office simply sends “admit” or not to the BU admissions office, but no student will be accepted unless they are ALSO accepted academically.
For grad students, however, BU accepts music students solely on a performance level basis. That’s why grad decisions go out so much sooner than undergrad
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ok, S admitted to Steinhardt Jazz Performance program, hooray!
To drive home the “who the hell knows” aspect of this exercise, he was also just denied at USC, and waitlisted at Oberlin and UCLA. Go figure.
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yes - grad school is so much better and the admit process actually makes sense for musicians. Schools should stop offering a BM in performance degree if they’d prefer the kid is more well-rounded. They should offer just a BA instead. Anyone who majors in performance and hopes to do this as a career has a high chance of being pretty singularly focused on their art or else they never would have reached the top in the first place. In this case, the actual top undergrads got cut. I still don’t think someone who is a top applicant in their instrument should be auto denied for a 4.2 GPA and 1390 SAT unless the school states before hand minimum cut offs for those metrics.
Son got into USC! This must have been because of his stellar pre screen video (thanks again to all the veteran music parents who helped us through that!) because he was certain he was going to be rejected after a very rocky audition.
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Music performance can be extremely subjective and nuanced, both across and within genres. It seems impossible to determine ‘top applicants’ across multiple institutions, much less even one institution, unless you are privy to whatever rubric, whim, or target the studio professors are utilizing to select students. Very often, it’s a decision based on a small moment in time. The level of talent out there is breathtaking and the profession is a wheel: sometimes you’re rising to the top, sometimes you slip lower. The only thing to do is grieve, accept, move on to the next opportunity. It can be such a harsh world for a beautiful thing!
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only the one time we did that, we got the shower of confetti so hated that he missed that! what a season this is!
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Got into Rice with merit!!! At least we don’t feel bad about BU anymore, lol…
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Yes for NYU percussion too!
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Yes. and I honestly think admissions offices do care about a big picture for their campus make up, and read essays, LORs, look at different histories, etc. They’re making a cohort of different humans, so lots of things come into play.
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Congratulations! I am so new into this as we are from another country so pretty new to college education system here. My S got accepted on some of universities but he is contemplating on doing a gap year. Will they hold their acceptance/scholarship/financial aid for next year? And is it the same for all Universities?
Got a full ride merit from Rice (MM)
Does anyone know how international students can get additional stipends? (More than 2k$? )
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Thank you, you said it extremely well, much better than I could, about how non logical and irrational it can be. Put it this way, we used to go to recitals at Curtis on violin, and I heard student performances that made me wonder how the hell they got in there, especially knowing some really incredible violin students who got rejected. It is the nature of the beast.
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