Please demystify the "Sample lesson" situation

jazzshreddermom
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:11:27 +0000

Just wanted to represent as the parent of a student who did exactly zero sample lessons and got all the acceptances he’d most hoped for. It could be that jazz is different from classical, I don’t know. And USC’s guitarists study with more than one teacher (which has proved to be fantastic).

But we simply didn’t have time to make two rounds of trips. The audition trips did help my son prioritize his choices, and if there were one or two places he’d have knocked off after visiting earlier (had we done so), we still would’ve needed the visit to knock them off. And a visit is more expensive than an application fee. So that logic didn’t make a lot of sense to us.

Again, it may be different for guitarists. Just another perspective.