Peabody - still waiting

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Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:03:41 +0000

I felt that the rejection letter was a bit disingenuous after their little speech to the parents about how the students shouldn’t worry if their audition wasn’t perfect. The judges could tell within 15 seconds the level and ability of the student. My son’s audition wasn’t perfect, and in fact he said it was his second worst audition because of a number of mistakes. But the clairvoyance of the judges must have been off that day because he was also accepted at Northwestern music and University of Michigan Music (within 8 days of his audition), two schools that I would consider to be a least comparable to Peabody. I doubt that the students (or faculty) at either of these schools consider that the students are at a “similar level of development” (read “lesser”) than Peabody. He also passed his auditions at USC and University of Colorado.

My son said that the letter was funny, but I think that he meant funny-odd, not funny-haha. In any event, it’s all academic (no pun intended) because he has been accepted at Harvard (and waitlisted at NEC). He had wanted to do the Harvard/NEC dual degree, but now he will probably be limited to taking lessons in Boston and getting a first-rate education.