<p>Congratulations lovetheviola - what a nice surprise!</p>
<p>Congratulations to lovetheviola on the increase.</p>
<p>Lovetheviola, congratulations! What a great surprise! What I have learned was the school that are part of university seems to have separate funds and awarding system. Some schools coordinate financial awards and some don’t.</p>
<p>Lovetheviola, congratulations! What a great surprise!</p>
<p>Octaves, when we received our acceptance letter to Jacobs (Indiana) in January it stated that scholarship information would be sent out by April 1. My son received his information by email on March 30. I agree, though, that it would be helpful if that information was also stated somewhere on the website or on their financial page (since the financial aid from the FAFSA was posted much earlier).</p>
<p>Catbonemom, we read that too. When we saw the financial aid information on the web site with only the loan given, we thought that was all given. We never expected that there would be a separate scholarship offer.</p>
<p>@cellocompmom, I completely understand about the school being too big for your son, and why you may want to consider the best fit despite the cost issue. My son was accepted to Florida State, and they have an excellent program plus it’s in-state tuition for us. However, he felt more like a number there due to it’s size, and was told that 50% of his undergraduate music classes would be taught by a doctoral student. In addition, it was hard to gauge just how many other kids would be playing the same instrument in front of him. University of Florida was the opposite, too small (300 total).</p>
<p>This sounds like Goldilocks and the three bears, but in the end University of South Carolina was his top choice - 500 students total was just the right size, he clicked with the professor, loved the campus, and they showed true interest. That manifested itself when they came through with a nice scholarship offer, so despite the fact it is more expensive being OOS and will be a sacrifice for us financially to some degree, it’s the best choice for him and he is over the moon.</p>
<p>Nice choice StoneMagic. Congrats to you and your son!</p>
<p>StoneMagic, check back through U South Carolina web pages on scholarships. When DD was applying and accepted there, if the student received a certain level of scholarship money they qualified for instate tuition in addition to the scholarships… It made them cheaper than out instate schools. The level was not too high, either.</p>
<p>One last acceptance to report for my D: BM Music Performance (oboe) & Music Education at Queens College (CUNY)/Aaron Copland School of Music. This is the first year that Queens is offering the double major of performance + music ed.</p>
<p>D was denied Eastman, but she had her worst audition of the season that day, just a really off day and did not play well. She fully expected not to get in–just wasn’t meant to be, maybe for grad school…</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone as they make their final decisions. I don’t know which has been harder, waiting to hear or actually deciding where to go!</p>
<p>Congratulations to Parkmama and daughter.</p>
<p>It has been brought to my attention in a private message (that I intend to keep private, so don’t bother asking) that certain entries on the lists of acceptances and decisions are quite likely to be, shall we say, more along the lines of wishful thinking than reality. While I would like to think that the overwhelming majority of those who post here are sharing truthful information with the intent of helping others, I must point out that I cannot promise that all of the information in these lists is correct. I am not in a position to be able to verify the information that all of you provide, only to collect and organize it.</p>
<p>Therefore, please take anything you read in these lists with a grain of salt and never assume a negative outcome for your own application because someone else here has reported being accepted to a particular school or studio.</p>
<p>What a shame this is a possibility. Why ever people would lie period is beyond me, but on an anonymous board to boot is just bizarre?</p>
<p>I can imagine the lie of omission…not telling that one was denied a college one wished for…but to actually fabricate an alternate admissions reality is rather bizarre. Or are we talking about creative reporting of scholarship offers?</p>
<p>@Bassdad, I always wondered how every other student on here was receiving scholarship offers from Julliard, Eastman, Indiana and the like - had no idea they had so much money to offer or had expanded their class size to accept so many students. I also personally know several outstanding musicians from this area who are receiving offers from top programs such as Northwestern, but even with those offers their parents are shelling out quite a sum from their own pockets. I always have my doubts when a music major states they are receiving a “full ride” as they almost don’t exist. </p>
<p>Not sure what drives people to exaggerate on a site like this other than insecurity, but I sleep quite well at night knowing everything I have shared on here is the truth. If your kid is considering a public university, especially in the southeast/SEC, feel free to ask and I’m happy to tell it like it really is.</p>
<p>@Singersmom, I failed to note that in addition to the scholarship itself, my son is also receiving a significant reduction in out of state tuition - so thanks for clarifying that. However, S. Carolina’s in-state tuition is still almost double Florida’s in-state tuition, so even with the reduction and scholarship it’s still going to be more out of pocket - possibly $6K more per year is what I estimate.</p>
<p>@BassDad does enough on here, and this is way after the “alleged” acceptances go out, but one way to “prove” your musical prodigy is truly attending is to share an image of the program from the ensemble concerts they are in as a freshman - my point being, every music major is required to be in an ensemble. Or maybe they need to post the official letter with their acceptance and offer on it…</p>
<p>Ok, that will never happen but one can dream…if only there was an easier way to have people provide true back-up.</p>
<p>I do not believe CC allows posting of images or documents, and I don’t think that the presence of a small amount of misinformation diminishes the overall usefulness of these lists by very much. I just do not want people relying on any of this as a sole source of information when making potentially life-changing decisions. When you have a question in need of a definitive answer, go to a source that you know you can rely upon. For the questions that come up most frequently around here, that source would likely be an admissions officer or a music teacher at the school of interest.</p>
<p>@StoneMagic- just as an FYI, some VP majors are not required to be in any ensemble, as their schools do not have a choral component. My own D is case in point; performances are another story!
That aside, I find it odd, but not surprising, that someone would be untruthful about acceptances and/or awards, but the fact that’s this an anonymous board reduces it to the absurd. I’ve been doing the “numbers” in my head, adding in acceptances of students I know personally, and it seems as if some programs are accepting 3-4 times those that they anticipate accepting. Now, that is a possibility in some areas and it can result in a particular year’s class being far larger than can easily accommodate at one school. When it all shakes out, I’m sure that some can report the actual numbers and we’ll see where things really stand.
BassDad, thanks for putting up with all of the nonsense- you are much appreciated!</p>
<p>If you look at the yield numbers (defined as the percentage of accepted students who will later matriculate at a particular institution) for most of the music schools discussed on this forum, you will see that all but a very select few have to offer admission to at least two or three times as many students as they hope to enroll. I happen to know that Oberlin, for example, has a yield of about 40%. This is to be expected when applicants are applying to half a dozen or more schools, with many being accepted by three or four.</p>
<p>The exceptions tend to be small programs, like Rice or Curtis, that have very few spots to fill each year and have the luxury of a very high yield.</p>