rejection letters speak volumes

Hat
Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:32:45 +0000

When my son was applying to colleges, he specifically wanted to get a music degree in combination with another subject. Therefore, he applied to numerous colleges with music departments and also to music conservatories which had an association with a more traditional college. He received only one outright rejection from a college, one of the HYP ones, and I remember nothing about the rejection (other than that it was the first one because of SCEA and that hurt). He was waitlisted at one other college and one of his conservatories, but they were harmless letters and did not bother him. The only one that bothered him was a variant of the #2 letter which not only told him that he was not good enough to attend their conservatory, but should also abandon any hope of pursuing music as a career. That one he still remembers.