How much weight does the primary teacher have on acceptance?

Mezzo_sMama
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 05:27:41 +0000

Right, what ALL of them said!

Recently I knew a student in the exact same situation- except that he was a VP applicant and a rare voice type. The teacher he wanted to study with was the same voice type and was well known in the field. Ordinarily, the student’s low GPA (it was much lower than your’s overall- a 2.2, I believe, but major problems with theory/sight singing/history that definitely pulled it way down) would have put him completely out of the running for any credible graduate VP program, but the teacher really wanted him and went to bat with the rest of the faculty and the admissions office and the student was admitted on a provisional basis. The young man took all the remedial courses and with help from a couple of kind classmates who tutored him through those and his classes and comps, he did make it and graduated, but it was a real struggle. Masters of Music degrees are not all about “playing music” at most schools; there are academic courses in music history, theory, etc which delve even deeper than those at the undergrad levels and there can be entrepreneurial and classes to prepare you for handling your own career. Papers to write and deadlines to meet.

It’s out of your hands now, so just sit back and wait to hear…Congrats on having a great audition!