<p>^^Before a music supp gets forward to the Dept. of Music, the student’s application has to make it past a certain gate with respect to grades, curriculum, and scores. Only if it gets over the academic threshold will Admissions send the supplement to the Department of Music for a ranking. Faculty for the particular instrument does the screening, and they’d be inundated if they had to review every single supplement. It makes sense that Admissions weeds out those that aren’t viable on academic grounds. </p>
<p>As for how many CDs get forwarded to the Music Department at Yale, I don’t know. At another Ivy my son applied to (not this year), the head of the piano program told him she only reviews about 25% of all the piano supps that are sent in each year. The rest don’t make it past Admissions.</p>