<p>Is anyone else still waiting to hear from Peabody? Their website is says audition results will be sent out postmarked April 1st and they did not hold late flute auditions. It's the last school we are waiting to hear from and we would like to move forward. I know they have until the 15th to respond.</p>
<p>Two years ago S got his letter from Peabody on April 6 or 7. The merit scholarship info came a day or two later. It was the LAST place we heard from. </p>
<p>FWIW, we were not thrilled with the admissions process there. The paperwork was endless, visiting the school was a project, the audition day was total confusion and the response was late. </p>
<p>BUT, S has been VERY HAPPY there. First impressions don't always last.</p>
<p>still waiting here, too, and for McGill</p>
<p>I'll echo the Madam Librarian's comments. On April 2 of 2006 I had to literally beg over the phone to find out D's admission status at Peabody. They blamed the late letters on a "new computer" system, but they can't use that one anymore I guess.</p>
<p>I didn't get a definitive answer just a, "Well the rejection letters went out a couple of weeks ago so no news is good news" response. I think the package finally came around April 5 or so.</p>
<p>And my child too is very, very happy there so all's well that ends well.</p>
<p>that's strange about McGill. I went there for undergrad, and I got my notification in early-mid March. Most of the people I knew also got their stuff pretty early.</p>
<p>My son's Canadian violinist friends have heard from McGill. that's all we know</p>
<p>I thought the Peabody rejection letter was a little creepy and quite condescending. Anybody else?</p>
<p>We haven't liked a rejection letter yet!
Seriously, since I complained about not hearing from Peabody it's only fair now to say that we did hear today. At this point, I almost wonder why we bothered.</p>
<p>Somehow I prefer the ones that are cut and dried over Peabody's that said we should appreciate that D got to play for its musically incredible panel!</p>
<p>Actually, you've got a point about the rejection letter--particularly the last line </p>
<p>"Should you wish to talk to us about your career goals, feel free to contact us." </p>
<p>I would think the most helpful thing these guys could do to help an applicant towards career goals is to offer admission. </p>
<p>Onward!!</p>
<p>One last word on this and I'm done:
It also might have helped if there wasn't vomit in the one practice room available.
I'm really done now!</p>
<p>You know, I was going to post about the Peabody rejection letter that came today also. I thought it was very hurtful. It was the only one that made my D cry...and not because she wasn't accepted, but because it made her feel inferior. </p>
<p>Phrases like: "Hopefully you have been accepted at other schools. In our experience this acceptance/rejection process ultimately leads applicants to a school where they will thrive, and since their classmates will be working at a similar level of development, rapid growth is more likely." To me this says...sorry you haven't met OUR standards..we hope you found a place where there are people of LESSER ability so you can all progress together.</p>
<p>"In the largest perspective, a rejection is simply a statement that our faculty believes you need a bit more development before being able to participate fully with our current student body." READ: You're not good enough to play with those admitted here.</p>
<p>Sorry to sound like sour grapes...but no other rejection letter was worded as unkindly as this one. Someone at Peabody needs to redraft it.</p>
<p>ok, I feel better now! It helps to have company...</p>
<p>Yup. Clearly a case of --the less said, the better.</p>
<p>I am aghast! This clearly is not a helpful way to word a rejection letter. I'm just glad the one rejection my D received last year was not so clumsily written!</p>
<p>There are schools out there that could perhaps pull off that arrogance - Peabody is not in that league. Even if they were, it would still be rude.</p>
<p>O don't worry about it, but it's true. Much better schools than Peabody are a lot nicer in their interactions with people. I haven't seen the rejection letter, but it doesn't surprise me. Their website is weird, with these really strange "how-to" and geeky directions. They are harassing my boyfriend who sent in an application a while ago, but then cancelled his audition when he got into all the other schools.</p>
<p>It's just a weird, kind of provincial place. I'm really sorry to hear the letter made your daughter cry. I remember in pre-college, when my girlfriends got a rejection letter I wouldn't even let them read it. I'd just throw it away and take them for retail therapy. If I were you, I'd write to them and tell them that their way of dealing with people sucks and their rejection letters are rude.</p>
<p>cartera hit the nail on the head. Well said.</p>
<p>To those who suffered the insult, ignore it and move on. You have better options.</p>
<p>I did not read the whole of Peabody's letter, but actually, I think the phraseology is an accurate description of the process we describe here. The total letter seems to have added up to a feeling of being put down, but the things quoted here are things I would say directly to a student auditioning for me. The other side of the equation is that a musician does not want to be somewhere their talent and accomplishment is deemed inferior.....nerve and confidence are much of the battle, or at least the motivation to keep striving. None of this is totally predictive of success or failure. I hope it is possible to accept their vantage point for what it is, a reaction to what they heard and saw on a particular day compared to everyone else they had heard when they selected the class.</p>
<p>I felt that the rejection letter was a bit disingenuous after their little speech to the parents about how the students shouldn't worry if their audition wasn't perfect. The judges could tell within 15 seconds the level and ability of the student. My son's audition wasn't perfect, and in fact he said it was his second worst audition because of a number of mistakes. But the clairvoyance of the judges must have been off that day because he was also accepted at Northwestern music and University of Michigan Music (within 8 days of his audition), two schools that I would consider to be a least comparable to Peabody. I doubt that the students (or faculty) at either of these schools consider that the students are at a "similar level of development" (read "lesser") than Peabody. He also passed his auditions at USC and University of Colorado.</p>
<p>My son said that the letter was funny, but I think that he meant funny-odd, not funny-haha. In any event, it's all academic (no pun intended) because he has been accepted at Harvard (and waitlisted at NEC). He had wanted to do the Harvard/NEC dual degree, but now he will probably be limited to taking lessons in Boston and getting a first-rate education.</p>