I agree. Guitar mom….in person if at all possible!!! BEST of luck!
Just another thought on jazz auditions–jazz being so collaborative. I don’t know how all schools do it, but IU Jacobs (where my son attended for jazz guitar) had an optional jazz jam at the end of the audition day. I honestly don’t even remember being aware that it was happening until we got there that morning (granted my boy isn’t the best communicator–haha). They rotated the kids through about a 2 hour jam. It was a fantastic experience–parents were asked to be the audience–and I am certain that the faculty members were still taking notes;). My son was so glad he did it. He hadn’t felt super confident in his individual audition but really was able to show his stuff in the jam. You might see if that could be part of the itinerary at other schools if they are doing all their jazz auditions on one day.
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That’s definitely a huge advantage for sure!!!
And another reason to try for in-person when you can.
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Just got word from Berklee….full tuition scholarship! Ackkkkkk! Talk about throwing a huge wrench into this process.
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Oh my goodness!!! Huge congratulations!! Send him up to Boston; it’s the best city!
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@FSUSammy can the Michigan State one be switched so he can do Thornton? Or maybe he is going to go with Berklee full tuition. (I am a Bostonian…)
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We already have the travel for Michigan State booked. But if anything we can switch our flight home to go straight to LAX. I’m just hesitant because I’ve heard Thornton isn’t super generous.
Berklee’s Offer is super hard to beat right now. I really need to sit down with my son and see what he says.
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Passed Frost! now to book all these flights…Anyone else’s head spinning?
Also am I the only percussion performance mom in here?
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Yay!!! We did Frost EA. They are soooooooo organized.
My head is definitely spinning this week. Crossing fingers for Peabody and Oberlin today lol I’m not expecting Juilliard until January so not going to get my hopes up that it comes in today lol
Passed Peabody!!!
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Peabody!!! They listened to me.
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But that full tuition is going to be so hard to pass up. Except he might get full tuition at all the other spots, too (except the super slim chance at Thornton because of USC’s financial situation)!
That’s my thinking too. Especially the Thornton part.
Just got our email from MSM 
Come on Oberlin!!!
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S just got email from UMich. It’s a yes- audition in less than a month 
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I can’t believe still nothing from Temple. You too? We are so anxious!
Heard from Univ of Texas- audition date of Jan 24th!!
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DD passed Colburn and Eastman
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My calendar “map” failed me; ha ha ha. Eastman sent audition scheduling grid but the day I had hoped he would book turns out to just be for grad level on his instrument so we did a quick reshuffle and picked a completely different week (cello is only on Fridays) and it forced us to definitely drop 2 of his US schools; we were thinking we would anyway to lessen the crazy travels in February but it’s difficult to “let go” of a couple of schools this far into the process and admit to ourselves that they are no longer in play.
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