<p>luckystar41 You are so kind and wonderful to come to the defense of “andison” as he’s called here. I know that there was a connection made between a boy at our hs and someone at camp while both were looking at the same college. I haven’t tried to figure out who you are, but I know you have come to his defense because you care about him. </p>
<p>It’s true that he has not come under much criticism here; in fact he’s gotten a lot of support. BUT I also TOTALLY agree with what you’re saying. In order to reach a certain level of excellence in classical music many many many hours of practice are involved. It would be next to impossible to carry the load of honors courses that andison took and put in the practice hours he did and ALSO do community service or the other types of PC activities. He also filled out his applications all by himself without regard to what the flavor of the day was with admissions officers or some sort of applications ‘strategy.’ He didn’t know whether to send in a tape or not but he didn’t know that not doing so would make or break his application. His accomplishments should have spoken for themselves. And I think it’s also probably true what you say about the current perception by admissions officers about classical music, which is so ironic because that is NOT our family at all. </p>
<p>luckystar41 the posters on the Swat site mean well and they’re all in support of your friend from camp. Most of them have pm’d me and I know they care.</p>
<p>He’s hanging in there- working on some Debussy right now- keep playing the music- it will transcend all of this!!!</p>
<p>andi</p>