<p>Woohoo...... The best times are ahead!</p>
<p>My daughter, like you, was very sad when her Yale rejection letter came. She admitted then that although she'd made light of her "reach" applications, she'd wanted Yale very, very badly. </p>
<p>Then, like you, she visited the PUBLIC University that welcomed her with open arms: Two days there, and she can't WAIT to go back. Here's what she told me:</p>
<p>"All that application stuff, all that snob I'm-smarter-than-you-are nonsense, that was High School. I'm going to one of the finest universities in the world, able to study anything that interests me. No more Physics, Yay! No more Math, yippee! Getting away from home, BIG yippiee!" And she's also very proud that she's going to a school that doesn't give preference to the children of celebs, or the rich, or the powerful. She likes the fact that her university is somehow MORE PURE than the Ivies some of her friends got into.</p>
<p>Frecklybeckly:</p>
<p>I knew you would love Ann Arbor!!! Congrats on the acceptance into the School of Music!</p>
<p>Wonderful news! Thank you for posting this happy update.</p>
<p>BECKY!!! This is Bookiemom, grad. school UM alum. I am so happy for you! This is HUGE! Vocal performance at UM is the big time! Are you aware of what a big deal this is in the music world? I think the musician parents here on CC will confirm that UM's music dept. is one of the top ones in the nation. </p>
<p>If you have the talent to be admitted into vocal performance at UM, then guess what? You really didn't belong at Yale (or Harvard or Princeton) anyway, because you should be using that voice. This is just one of those "meant to be" things.</p>
<p>One of my best friends from high school was a vocal performance major at UM. I attended her high school senior recital and four years later I was there for her solo senior recital at the music building at UM. That will be you in four years!</p>
<p>You will LOVE vocal performance at UM. They do operas, operettas, you take classes in singing in other languages, and I think you can audition for musical theater as well. (Their MT program is one of the best in the nation--some think the very best.)</p>
<p>You will have two automatic social groups: the music majors AND residential college. And guess what? Nobody there will have heard of the Sun God twin brother. </p>
<p>Please don't give another thought to any of those East Coast colleges. You can be proud of your acceptance to vocal performance at UM--anyone in music in the whole country knows what that means, and to those in music, this means way more than HYP.</p>
<p>YOUR star is rising, Becky. GO BLUE!!!</p>