<p>DD was accepted to most every school and has been offered scholarships, really nice ones from every school except the school she felt she had the best audition at, (the committee thought their paperwork was messed up and she was auditioning for their grad program) and the lowest ranking school academically and the lowest ranking music department (our back up back up school). Now she was not wild about how the school handled audition day and actually about the school itself but she reasoned better than community college if nothing else works,
But the no $$ was just bugging me..so I send off a nice email enquiring if perhaps mail had misdirected, etc.
A week later the department chair sends me an email saying no, she was not getting a scholarship because of her 1.7 GPA. , and a student has to have a 3.0 to continue receiving scholarships.<br>
Few problemos here: she would be a freshman, not a continuing student. NO SHE DOES NOT HAVE A 1.7! She did have one rough semester that was a 2.0 for that semester but is above a 3.0 cumulative. So I figured - bunch of idiots and declined DDs acceptance.
So earlier this week DDs voice teacher calls and says she was talking to a colleague at the school who was dying to have DD in her studio and was disappointed when she saw DD had declined and was wondering why? I explained the no $$ and email fro the dept head to voice teacher, who called colleague who enquired further and the stupid scholarship committee had messed up files and ranking sheets and some lucky kid with a 1.7 GPA and the lowest ranked audition is getting a close to full tuition ride. and as DD says: no regrets, they are nuts there and this proves it. </p>
<p>I am a bit confused as to what school was what here, whether the school she had the best audition at fouled up or the one with the lowest scores…</p>
<p>That said, my one comment is where does your D think she would have the best chance? Put it this way, the admissions offices and scholarship committees and such are bureaucracies, and they foul up all the time, I have seen little at a spectrum of schools from small, unknown schools to the Ivy League. </p>
<p>I understand you being angry or upset at the foul up, but it is also would be cutting your nose off to spite your face if you turned down the opportunity to work with a teacher you thought was better than at another program (like I said in the opening, I couldn’t understand exactly what you were saying).The teacher is a large part of the process, and if you felt the colleague at the school was the best teacher for her, then it may be worthwhile trying to see if they would do anything to help get you to go there. On the other hand, if the teacher there isn’t particularly special, then go where there is a teacher she likes and thinks she can work with. </p>
<p>I understand the anger, there is a certain conservatory whose admissions office I would have loved to drop a small nuclear device on, but in one way it was a blessing in disguise the way they fouled up because I think the path my S took ultimately was the right one for him. I would hope the school in question would see the error and rectify it, if the story they gave you was true, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, bureaucrats are the same no matter where you go and they are probably more likely to create an elaborate framework of lies to cover their incompetance rather than tell you the truth and own up to it. </p>