<p>Just as a side bar to this, as it is sort of related- D has found out that some required classes were difficult or impossible to get into this fall due to the fact that schools are accepting grad students who did not major in music as undergrads. Simply because of the “totem pole” rankings, graduate students take precedence over the undergraduates, so what happens when they haven’t fulfilled the requirements in keyboard classes or, especially, in languages? They get the spots and the others have to wait, or, if there is still room (or the prof permits more students to enroll), the older ones have had their schedules longer so all of the texts required for the courses are sold-out. Actually, this last event led us to some creative shopping alternatives- Thank You goes out to thumper1 for the suggestions! This all seems to be a relatively new phenomenon, since the administration really was caught off guard this year, but one has to wonder if it will continue to the point where it actually impacts the number of years required to graduate if one has to pack in “required” courses and can’t get into them?</p>