<p>I am applying for BM composition. That's really a disappointing news to me. I also wonder why. I think CCM MSM Mannes is more selective and I made it.</p>
<p>But I get rejected by BOCO:(. Is it a little weird?</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, when did you find out?</p>
<p>musician34- I just got the email from BOCO several minutes before. Really Disappointing:(</p>
<p>welcome to the wonderful world of auditions and such, and it highlights a fact stressed over and over, the hierarchy of schools doesn’t mean anything when it comes to auditions, people get rejected from technically lower level programs and get into the ‘best’, etc. Someone who you would think is technically stronger then another candidate gets rejected while the second person gets in…</p>
<p>As for you example, applying in composition, it could be a number of factors</p>
<p>-they might have felt, for whatever reasons, that your body of work didn’t show enough depth (for the people looking at it)</p>
<p>-A big one, stylistically it may not have fit their vision of music; if in classical, for example, the panel might be ultra modern composers and you came in with pieces more tonal/neo classical/etc…</p>
<p>-they may have had a ton of composition students apply this year and had a flood of composition students more advanced then yourself, and also had relatively few slots to fill. So, hypothetically, they might have 4 slots open, gotten 60 kids applying and only would take 10 to go through the full process. </p>
<p>-Maybe not as likely, but goes on, maybe the BOCO panel felt you were applying there as a safety of sorts. I don’t know about BOCO’s relative level in terms of composition, but in music performance schools apparently will reject applicants who level is so high they figure they are applying there as a safety (for example, knew someone who got into curtis and juilliard who was rejected from several second tier programs). </p>
<p>I realize you are disappointed but don’t let it make you think that somehow you are deficient, the fact you got through the prescreen elsewhere at top programs should tell you that. As others have said, auditions are a crapshoot to start with, and you have to realize there is no skill and science in it, it is subjective and also full of all kinds of unknown variables:)</p>
<p>musicprnt- Thanks for writing！ Recently I got the respond email from the chiar of BOCO composition. It turned out a confusion mistake. I still can be invited to the interview. So exciting! But anyway, I do realized that there are many possibilities for any result. And thank you very much for your encouragement.</p>