<p>We are sitting here checking and rechecking email, waiting for early decision from Berklee. Posts from the last few years said they were mailed out at midnight. Does the fact we haven't received one mean S is possibly rejected?</p>
<p>I doubt it means that as they informed both those who were accepted and other decisions (decision deferred to March, declines) tonight. Did you receive an email last week telling you to check their web portal? We did and that is how we found out. Here is the link. <a href=“https://apply.berklee.edu/[/url]”>Berklee; </p>
<p>We did also receive an email after midnight telling us to log-in and check the portal. At another school they sent some info to my email address and other info to my sons’s so perhaps something like that is going on. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>We didn’t receive anything last week other than a general email about an upcoming concert, not a specific one to my son.
We only shared one email with them that we have mainly for college. I’ll have him login when he wakes up. He finally went to sleep! Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you and your son shellybean. If something was amiss with your app (e.g. waiting for a transcript or submitted incorrectly, etc.) they still are making general admission decisions and I would guess that with a phone call to figure out what happened they would consider your sons application in that timeframe (general admission) if they hadn’t already done so.</p>
<p>Hi! Thanks for the help and the well-wishes. We called and all documents are there - they were received in Nov. Our admissions counselor is going to contact the admissions board and find out what happened. The first person who answered the phone said some decisions were not made yet??? I don’t quite know what that means, but it doesn’t matter really. We will be waiting a while I guess. At least it’s not a rejection (yet). I’m hoping for the best! Thank you!</p>
<p>A note: we just got a return call and were told we would know by next weekend. Now to find something to distract us while we wait.</p>
<p>A rhetorical question here…Why is it that every year we hear stories like this about schools jerking people around, making them guess and wait, etc.For example, the NYU debacle in another thread, etc. Applicants put so much time, energy, money, and worrying in to this whole college process. Why can’t the admissions depts. just get it right. If an applicant sends in his/her application, support material and $$$ by the required deadline and expects to hear a decision by a said date why can’t the school just do its job??? It’s just not right to torture people!!!</p>
<p>I agree, poprockmom - it’s horrible. And it seems Berklee and NYU are always the ones who have these stories. So wrong!</p>
<p>To make matters worse for my poor son, his friend found out he’s in. So he’s feeling pretty low right about now.
Poprockmom, jazz/shreddermom, you are right. I read all the posts from last year and the year before about people not hearing and they were somewhat frantic and I was thinking I hope that’s not us. And then it happened to us! I’m mostly frustrated for him.</p>
<p>Oh shellybean, these moments are so rough (and I something think they are rougher on us parents than the kids.) Sending you good vibrations and hope for good news next week!</p>
<p>Wow, I feel your pain Shellybean. I can’t imagine (actually I can which is worse) what that must have been like. My S had another friend who didn’t find out who auditioned at the same time he did, so I wonder if that is what is going on with him too. </p>
<p>The good news is that you will have an answer in a week, which beats the heck out of 3/31 and hopefully it works out and this will just add to story value. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Shellybeen, sorry to hear that your S’s answer didn’t come when you expected. That is so frustrating. </p>
<p>Berklee admins, if you are reading this, please let these wonderful music families know what situations can cause this to happen. If these delays are associated with admissions workload and some applications just can’t be processed in the window you advertise, please let us know what you are doing to improve the admissions experience. It’s one thing to get delayed, and if an accept comes perhaps it can be forgiven. If you delay a student’s decision and then it is a reject, that is not good relationship building and I hope you will improve.</p>
<p>Shellybean, another thing worth noting…where your S ends up going to school most likely will not determine his success as a musician. Frankly, a lot of successful artists don’t even go to or finish college. His passion, will, talent, and drive will be the reasons for his success. From the way it sounds, your S already has that going on. I always worried, too, when my S was going through this process. Now I look back on it and wonder why I wasted so much energy doing that. Of course we want the best for our child and it hurts us even more than it hurts them seeing them stress over a situation. I am certain your S will end up at the school that fits him, where ever that may be.</p>
<p>For early decision at Berklee, are the options admit, reject and defer? Or is there no defer option?</p>
<p>What poprockmom says is especially true of contemporary musicians (as opposed to classical). And FWIW, is it just me or does it seem rare that anyone reports a rejection from Berklee here in CC’s music forum? (I don’t know why - perhaps cc’s musicians are a bit higher caliber just as cc’s student posters seem to be in academics?). We often see students who don’t attend due to disappointing scholarship offers, but not many rejections in the few years I’ve been year.</p>
<p>jazz/shreddermom … I don’t think people like to publicly announce their rejects on this forum. I have shared many PM’s back and forth from parents (and a few students) who have kids that have applied to Berklee, about 25% of my PM contact’s sons or daughters end up getting accepted and 75% don’t. The majority of the 75% don’t usually talk about their rejects, but instead turn their public discussions to the schools they did get accepted. Of the 25% that get accepted, at least half of those shared with me they cannot attend because of finances (no scholarship or not as big as they needed). Of course I didn’t keep specific data over the last 3 years, but that is my experience. The 25/75 percent of my experience is only since 2010, as my D wasn’t in Berklee before that so I wasn’t paying attention nor getting PMs on the topic.</p>
<p>compdad, I have heard of students getting rejected for the specific semester they wanted to start, like Fall 2013, but offered to start one semester later, for example, the following January. I don’t believe they have a specific deferral program like an Ivy or some LACs. It seems you are either a fit for Berklee’s approach to music and they think you are ready or you are not.</p>
<p>You’re right, SnowflakeVT. We don’t “post” rejections here, but as someone who has obsessively (too obsessively) read the forum since my son was a junior in HS (he’s now a junior in college), I have read many discussions that involved rejection disappointment… and not many from Berklee. From the music program at my son’s HS (which is very competitive, granted), we’ve also never seen a Berklee rejection. But that’s clearly anecdotal. And of course they must reject some students. </p>
<p>I was trying to say, with no evidence really, that we have the “best” musicians here on cc, and be hopeful and positive for shellybean’s next week, and I am still am very much so!</p>
<p>Yes, I see your point, jazz/shreddermom. Most students and families that make their way to CC are generally more focused than the average family on their success, so are likely to also be more prepared for the audition process, therefore less rejections here than the average person trying to get into college or music school. I thought you were comparing Berklee reject rates in general. I do agree though, that there is a much higher rejection rate from a highly selective program like your S’s at Thornton/USC than the whole population of a school like Berklee that has four to five thousand students.</p>
<p>I am hopeful for shellybean … it may be that for her S’s instrument, they are just temporarily backed up and will get the decisions out shortly.</p>
<p>While auditions and competitions are going to be a large part of our children’s lives as they move past college, let’s hope the bureaucratic mess doesn’t follow them. Good luck Shellybean and all who have suffered application and notification issues.</p>