Love Cantus! Congrats on being done.
Well done to you and your D @choirsandstages!
Congrats, all!
Congrats to your daughter @choirsandstages! Welcome to the wait!
Congrats to all who have finished auditions and welcome to the waiting game. After the craziness of the audition season, this respite I was looking forward to is actually a bit torturous. I’ve been looking through the acceptance threads from the past few years to see when the schools my D applied to usually notify, and several of them typically do not post or send out acceptances until March 31!! Oh my… what a long few weeks this will be.
The irony is as soon as we hear from all the schools, we will probably be on the road again to make final decisions on studios! So while the waiting is tedious, at least it is done from the comfort of our own living room.
For me, the mom, there was a steady stream of financial aid emails and communications in February to address; returns to be filed, documents to be submitted, etc. It’s now eerily quiet.
Exactly @songbirdmama! My D finished her live auditions yesterday and as much as it was a relief I know she will want to take another lesson and meet with prospective teachers if she has a few choices. So April will be another ‘season!’
sigh!
That eerie quiet is often called mid-terms week followed by spring break at many schools. So while you are at home being tortured…is it possible that the music faculty is on the beaches of Mexico with margaritas? Don’t they understand that you are waiting!!! I had such thoughts! Hang in there. As I recall 3/15ish to end of month is pretty active.
I remember 4years ago when my son was auditioning at 8 schools across the country. I was a travel coordinator/travel companion/bank/counselor in one. We had enjoyed the process as a family even though it was stressful. Now that he was applying to graduate schools, the process was entirely different. He applied to only 2 schools with the teachers he had studied with before. He made all the arrangements even though I was still paying for the expenses. he was much more relaxed and comfortable in auditions this time around as well. Now that his last audition was completed, the waiting game has begun. He would be too busy flying around the country and overseas for a performance, a music festival, and a competition to be nervous about the result, but I seemed to be more anxious about the result and the scholarship offers. I had never thought I would be worried about paying for my child’s graduate school but at the same time I would like my son to finish his education with less amount of loan to pay back.
I got home from my CU Denver audition about 7 hours ago. That was the last of them. Now all I have left to do is apply for private scholarships and wait for admission decisions. I should hear back from every school by the end of this month, and from my first choice school within a week.
I was expecting to feel a huge sense of relief at this point, but instead the desire for the application process to be over has morphed into “more music, please”, like many others here have experienced. If I get accepted to a school I’m going to move mountains to be able to afford it, but even if that doesn’t work out I think the experience of applying and auditioning has intensified my musical desire.
Congrats @SingingPianist and best wishes on the results!
D finished auditions more than a week ago. She is only waiting on decisions from 2 schools. It’s getting very “real”. Certainly, the financial realities are unavoidable at this point and some hard conversations have already been had. We still haven’t filed our tax returns and really should get on that. So, not fun at the moment!
Best wishes to all of you!
Finally! First snail mail package arrived today from the very decent safety school. So nice to finally get an official acceptance, and it even came with some scholarship info but not the overall financial package. Funny part of this story was that my D saw on FB that some summer music program friends had received their package from this school today. So her first trip to the mailbox was at 3:30 pm. Nothing – no mail at all. And then the mailbox watch continued for hours. Our mail wasn’t delivered until 6:45 pm today! It was a new or substitute mailman… go figure! Whose mail comes at 6:45? Hoping that those packages and emails start arriving for everyone very soon 
Brava to your D @RKopera! What a wonderful result.
OMG… if March goes any slower, we’re going to find ourselves back in February!
Pretty sure my son is going to punch out the next person who asks him, “so, have you heard from schools yet?” lol
@ScreenName48105 I feel the same!
My D finally heard from one of her schools. She’s also had unofficial emails from teachers from 2 other schools saying she’s accepted and wanted in their studios. Odd? typical? I have no idea if this is how it’s done.
I’d love to think it’s true…but I don’t dare and I’ve told my D to keep schtum!
I hope everyone here’s some good news soon!
@ScreenName48105 LOL!
@coloraturakid my daughter has had similar experiences. She’s got one formal acceptance, but has verbal commitments from two other schools - one directly from a teacher at the end of her audition and another one via a phone call from the head of the admissions department. That said, she knows not to count on anything until you have a piece of paper (or email) with the school letterhead on it!
Is it ok to call the Dept and ask the status when we will get the info about merit? I’m dying here.
I wouldn’t count an acceptance until the letter or email comes, as DD says above. I know several cases in which an enthusiastic teacher gave a verbal acceptance, but the student was not admitted after all. Sometime this happens because there end up not being enough openings in the program. For example, an older student take an unexpected extra term, or another teacher may have also given premature verbal acceptances. But it is a great vote of confidence to know that, all things being equal, the teacher would like to have you in her studio.