Preliminary Visits as a Junior

thumper1
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:33:16 +0000

Bassdad is right. After acceptance, DS went to his top choice school again (he actually wanted to go to the top TWO, but the second school never returned phone calls, emails or letters sent re: this and DS decided if that was how they treated their students, he was NOT interested in them). When he went to the post acceptance day, he had a FULL day beginning at 9 in the morning and ending at 10 in the evening. This included a walk around with the music adcom, sitting in on a theory class, visiting with his private trumpet teacher (who actually had left him a note because he heard DS was visiting…nice touch), attending an orchestra rehearsal…and most important…attending the brass department chamber music jury…usually open only to students IN the program, but DS (and I) were invited to come to see it because we were there. If school number 2 had offered him the same day, he might have matriculated there. School number 2 had the “hey, we are ____ and we don’t need to do anything else to impress you” attitude. Too bad.