<p>Does anyone know why the Peabody application is still not up on their website yet? The website used to say it would be up in mid-October but now it says late October. Anyone have any information on this?</p>
<p>Yes, I wrote to them. They said their application would be up by the end of the month.</p>
<p>Administratively and academically there are a lot of problems at Peabody. You should take this as a sign because it denotes much chaos ahead.</p>
<p>It’s December 20th and their application isn’t up yet? IIRC, prescreenings are due December 1st. How can that be?</p>
<p>IIRC, Peabody requires several letters of recommendation. The recommenders will be hard to track down over the holidays and will probably be annoyed, having thought they had finished writing letters. </p>
<p>Maybe they are doing away with prescreening and recommendations, going to an open audition system?</p>
<p>The application has been up since about Nov 5. I called admissions when it wasn’t up as promised on Oct 30, and they told me it had been further delayed due to hurricane Sandy. Very friendly admissions staff, so that is a positive.</p>
<p>Application has been up for some time. Not a difficult process.</p>
<p>Juilliard2013 - Sorry, but I find it difficult to take as objective your potshot at Peabody given your sign-in name.</p>
<p>Looks like Juilliard 2013 is trying to make trouble for Peabody. ■■■■■ anyone? My S submitted application and prescreens to Peabody in early Nov and had no trouble and I have to say that the admissions staff at Peabody is just about the friendliest and most helpful that I’ve encountered.</p>
<p>Good luck to your son re Peabody megpmom!</p>
<p>Juilliard2013 has made only one post-- she or he created an account just to bash Peabody. I would not jump to the conclusion that this person is necessarily a senior at Juilliard, either.</p>
<p>Our experience with the admissions staff at Peabody was very good as well; one of the best.</p>
<p>No, I’m not at Juilliard right now, not yet. I’m applying to grad school for the fall (2013) and hope to be admitted in 2013. I’m CURRENTLY at Peabody. Yes, administratively people can be very friendly. However, friendly is different than getting a task done. Those are two different things. Ask anyone there if what they request ever gets done? I didn’t open this account to bash Peabody. I opened this account to find out more about grad schools. Sorry that I speak the truth. When you get there, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. Students are friendly, and you’ll most likely get your easy A’s from teachers, but don’t ask me to say that it’s up to par with the other conservatories because it just isn’t. The current dean is in hot water and doesn’t help you at all when you go in to see him. Scheduling is often a mess. When you go to just about any office and request help, they’ll tell you anything to get you out just so they can get on Facebook. I’ve seen it!!! Get mad all you want at me, I’m just telling you like it is.</p>
<p>Funny, no questions regarding grad schools or admissions and the deadlines have passed for Fall 2013. Believe me, I’m not mad about anything you have said. I simply question your objectivity.</p>
<p>I just joined CC and I’ve already turned in my applications and materials for my desired schools. I can still read the fora and respond. I mean, at some point one has to join here. Correct? Not sure what the problem is or why you continually question my authenticity. I don’t care either way whether or not you believe me, but I’m simply telling you what I know. Please matriculate at Peabody for the fall of 2013, since you -or your progeny- will surely get in, and after you do so, come back and let me know what you think. If you have anything else you’d like to ask me, feel free. Not everything is bad there, but I can’t lie and say everything’s peachy when it just isn’t. If you really want to know, go there and talk to students on your own. Thanks!</p>
<p>juilliard2013, please don’t be offended. Historically, there has been a precedent for people to join the forum just to bash a school. When you look at the number of post they’ve made, it’s often a very low number, and it seems they joined the forum only to post negative comments, not necessarily to be helpful or to ask for advice. Your original post looked like it could be in that category. After you added more details, it looks like you’re a legit post-er. Welcome!</p>
<p>Juilliard2013, I am curious to know what areas of Peabody you have found to be lacking. We have talked with a number of students there, but heard only positive things. Are your issues unique to your instrument, or would they pertain to other music students as well?</p>
<p>Without commenting on Juilliard2013’s comments directly, one thing to keep in mind when reading posts on here that people write about their own experiences and can reflect individual experiences/frustrations/whatever. Doesn’t mean that the post isn’t true, but rather that they had a bad/good experience and it is reflected in what they write. It is like people’s experiences with teachers, one student will give glowing recommendations about a teacher, another will say the teacher is horrible… we have had people on here writing rants about Juilliard, that the admissions there is being perverted by rich Koreans buying their way in and claiming first hand knowledge…</p>
<p>I will add that bureaucratic indifference, inefficiency and the like is common at a lot of schools, I went to NYU and we used to curse the bureaucracy, claiming we were like denizens of the old TV show “The Prisoner” where we were numbers, not people…</p>
<p>Again, let me reiterate I am not directly responding to Juilliard2013’s post on Peabody. What I generally hear about Peabody (and take it for what it is worth, it comes from people who have gone there, and some faculty I have met) is that the facilities are a bit on the old side and it isn’t in a great area. In terms of the teaching, it is like any school, it depends on the area you are in and what teacher you get in that area. In general the rep on Peabody is that the level of student ability there is more wide ranging then at some of the more competitive schools, but that they also have some great teachers in the various areas. I don’t know what Juilliard2013 meant about “easy A’s”, did he mean that in prime instruction, which I would be suspicious of, or in courses like theory and ear training and such? Unless Peabody operates differently then other music schools, the musical portion is judged by jury panels, and I would find it kind of amazing that juries would give ‘easy A’s’ for students not deserving it, given the way music teachers in my experience are and that kind of collusion would be difficult…but who knows?</p>
<p>One person’s opinion is one person’s opinion. That is fine. A raw personal experience was expressed. But one person’s opinion is not an algorithm for the experience of others without a better basis for such. I just want to see a better grounded discussion of a particular school, no matter the school, not just put downs such as you would hear from several of the talking heads on both sides of the media.</p>
<p>Now that you mention it, I’ve seen quite a few posts extolling the virtues of various schools from people with low post numbers and never thought that they might have joined with the sole purpose of promoting a particular school. I know for a fact that most schools keep a close eye on their online reputation and routinely have grad students monitoring CC and even posting but I don’t see anyone questioning overly enthusiastic posts. I guess nobody likes a malcontent but it’s important to encourage frank discussions of problems with school administrations ( the teacher thing is probably too much of a personal choice ) when there are careers and life savings and lifetime debts at stake. Parents putting their first child through college have a hard time knowing what is normal and what is out of line with administration especially coming from 4 years of dealing with a high school- and we all know how those can be run…</p>
<p>I’ve noticed those low-number “rave reviews”, too, jb1966.</p>