<p>Also, want to add, the apps for the “pie in the skies” that my son chose had the most onerous essays of all. What a pain in the neck! He spent a lot of time on those schools because of that. He would not recommend doing this to anyone else. By the time it sank into his head that he still had all of his other college apps to do and that the process for them, though easier, still had to be done, he had done so much on those lottery apps, that he felt he had to send them in. I think one had a really expensive fee too.</p>
<p>Like my friend’s daughter who wanted to audition at Curtis “just for the experience”. It was a very expensive and time consuming experience. I hope she secretly wanted to go there because the audition fee was really high, and she had to spend the night at a Philly hotel for the audition. Not to mention the time preparing for it. And, she did not get accepted. Don’t know if she would have gone had she been accepted because she really wanted a traditional college environment with programs other than just music featured, and this was her only conservatory app. But, oh, what a pain it was to go through the process, and expensive.</p>