<p>orchestramom: Thanks for the welcome! I've been deliberately vague about where she's applied, partly for reasons that even describing her background will identify us to anyone who might have a clue who we are.</p>
<p>That said, I'll describe the schools a bit:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Large State University, National Tier 1- Top 30 or so music school- application in progress, interested for one particular degree program that is a bit different and may well fit dd's profile well. </p></li>
<li><p>Large State University, National Tier 2- Top 30 or so music school- application complete, haven't heard yet on academic admission but stats are above the middle 50%ile. Scheduled to audition for BA program.</p></li>
<li><p>State University, National Tier 3- accepted to university with honors program invitation & probable full tuition scholarship (probably coming in mail soon), music school has good regional rep. & one or two particular programs that would fit dd's interests well</p></li>
<li><p>State University, Regional Tier 3- application complete, waiting for decision, music school not known but feeds into #1  above for grad school. There is only one violin faculty member, though. </p></li>
<li><p>Private Liberal Arts University, Regional, Tier 2- accepted w/academic scholarship, audition is mainly for scholarship purposes</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Dd's new teacher is a recent master's grad of #1 and is very interested in talking with the dept. head about dd. Final submission of application is waiting to see if this person is interested.</p>
<p>In any case, the professors at these schools, and possibly her teacher, will be able to give us some guidance, I'm sure, but I thought I'd ask here for experience with programs that could work for students who are not at the absolute top level of development on their instruments for their age, yet probably do have signficant potential based on previous evaluations of general musical ability. </p>
<p>Any summer program will, of course, not influence the outcome of this year's admission audition, but would give her an intensive experience which would better prepare her for fall ensemble auditions should a school decide to take a risk and admit her to their music program. </p>
<p>What kind of structure would you be thinking of for intensive one-on-one? Her new teacher is giving her 1.5 hrs per week, divided on classical technique, improvisation, and theory. </p>
<p>Hopefully, this gives enough of a feel without giving away too many identifiers.</p>