<p>Hi. I auditioned for UCI and UCLA. There is massive confusion about when the acceptance or rejection letters come out. On UCLA's website it says end of march. But i have a lot of people tellling me otherwise. Do the ethnomusicology dept (for UCLA) notify the applicant of their acceptance or rejection earlier than the university? How about UCI's music dept? The worst part about this whole college audition process is waiting!</p>
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<p>Does the music dept. of UCI have the same restricitive policy as UCLA - about the people who rejected from music major by audition results being denied from admission to the university altogether?</p>
<p>UCI does not have the same policy as UCLA. I emailed UCI's music dept and asked them about it. It will be up to the UCI Admissions office to admit the student for the second major or undeclared.</p>
<p>UCLA's approach is to treat the College of Arts and Architecture like the College of Engineering for application purposes -- i.e., you cannot have a second choice in a different College, such as the College of Letters and Sciences which houses the musicology department. At the other UC's, music performance is one of the options in the music departments housed in the College of Letters and Sciences. The admissions standards at the College of Arts and Architecture are also different -- less based on grades and tests and more on auditions and portfolios.</p>
<p>mamenyu, you seem to have a lot of knowledge on UC's music admissions ;-); do you, by chance, have any information about the "impactedness" of music major at UCLA? </p>
<p>That is, suppose, the student doesn't have enough guts to apply to School of Arts and Architecture (risking to fail the audition and be denied admission to UCLA); she applies to College of Letters and Science undecided and, hopefully, gets admitted (as the academically strong student with the special talent ;-)). Can she then change her major to music? How hard it is? What should be done for that?</p>
<p>And what musical opportunities are there at UCLA for non-music major? Do they have access to practice rooms? Music classes? Private lessons?</p>
<p>I applied to UCLA and did a lot of research (calling the advisors, attending classes, etc) and you can change your major to music later. From what i know...you have to audition with the same repertoire as listed on their website. And i think for music...you have to start at the beginning of the year (september). So you can't start in the middle of freshman year...but at the beginning of sophomore year. So you'll be auditioning probably in December or January or February, along with the regular freshman or tranfser applicants. I'm pretty sure about everything I've written so far. I asked the undergraduate music and ethnomusic dept advisor about major changes an etc.</p>
<p>I heard that there are practice rooms in the dorms. But i heard that it's not so nice. I don't know if non-music majors can use the practice rooms in the music building. You should check out <a href="http://www.music.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D">www.music.ucla.edu</a> or <a href="http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D">www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu</a> (if you're interested in jazz and world music). The websites should have info about music opportunities for non music majors</p>
<p>If i made any mistakes in my answer. Please correct me but don't be mean. haha. AND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER MY ORIGINAL QUESTION?</p>
<p>I strongly doubt that musicology is an impacted major, but you could call them to find out. My understanding is that musicology, ethnomusicology, and music performance, though housed in the same building, do not have a smooth working relationship. Indeed, it is unusual that they are not part of the same department (compare Berkeley, for example, or any other school, for that matter). That said, the musicology department is very good; it is "edgy" -- lots of feminist stuff (Susan McClary).<br>
My experience e-mailing the UCLA music performance department was that they did not respond -- they also never managed to send an e-mail about the prescreening results. If you have questions call them directly. The person to talk to there is a Mr. Bradley. There are 26 practice rooms, only some of which have good pianos, and those are locked and available only to music performance majors and students in ensembles, who are issued keys. There is a charge for the practice rooms; you can reserve up to 20 hours a week for an extra fee. This is all on the website. You can be bounced from the room by a student with a reservation, or a graduate student, according to the information I was given by a present graduate student. There are also pianos in some of the classrooms. On the whole, my impression was that it would seem to be difficult to practice piano if you were not a performance major.<br>
Although UCLA is a more highly ranked school, the performance option at UCSB is worth looking into, at least for piano -- the teachers look quite good and it has an impressive program of master classes with top performers.
Also, Colburn, another Los Angeles option, is tuition free.</p>
<p>From what I read on the UCLA web-site, I couldn't quite understand the rights of non-music majors regarding practice rooms. I sent an e-mail and got an answer: "Yes, non-music majors can use them if they byu the card".</p>
<p>Then I asked what then does the following sentence (from the same wen-site) mean:</p>
<p>"the students who change their major must notify the office and might be asked to surrender your MFSF Card and key immediately" ?</p>
<p>I didn't get an unswer for that.</p>
<p>The keys are issued to performance majors. It looks like there are 30 rooms in total; Pink rooms have good pianos. Perhaps the rooms are also available after 5 p.m. too, but it doesn't say. The posted hours for reserved rooms are fairly limited. There are more than 30,000 students at UCLA -- many of them have studied piano. Looks like it could be tough for a nonmajor.</p>
<p>"MFSF Reservations: Please go to <a href="http://ww.music.ucla.edu/mfsf%5B/url%5D">http://ww.music.ucla.edu/mfsf</a> to access the online reservation system. For an additional fee, practice rooms may be reserved Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.
1-5 hours: $30
6-10 hours: $50
11-15 hours: $70
16-20 hours: $90</p>
<p>Room Type: There are three kinds of practice rooms: Blue, Pink, and Yellow. Blue rooms are unlocked, and are generally for use by non-majors enrolled in an appropriate course or other members of the UCLA community. Yellow and Pink rooms are locked, and are only for use by majors who can obtain a key from 1642 Schoenberg. Pink rooms usually house the highest quality pianos. Practice rooms are available throughout the year during posted building hours.</p>
<p>Nusic applicants at UCLA and UCI find out the same day as all others. If I remember from last year, UCI is the first UC school and I think we found out online around March 1. UCLA has a date listed on its admissions website, but last year the info was posted a few days earlier, I think it was posted at night on Friday or Saturday March 10 or 11. At all UC schools you can find out first online. By the way, if you get a postcard inviting you to an Open House for the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA it means you've been accepted.</p>
<p>When was the open house last year?
Also, do they tell you who the teacher is?</p>
<p>The UCLA Open House last year was April 7. This was for all students admitted to the School of Arts and Architecture, which includes music and ehtnomusicology. There was only one teacher for my son's instrument, so that was never an issue. I don't know what they do in the case of more than one teacher for an instrument.</p>
<p>i am a music major at ucla, so i can answer some of the questions about practice rooms. the rooms are available until the building closes, usually midnight or 10 pm on weekends. any music major(not just performance) can use the pink and yellow rooms. any non-major can use blue practice rooms, if they have practice card. what UCLA means when they say someone who leaves the major has to surrender their card, is that they have to give up their yellow card(right to use all rooms) but they can still purchase a blue card(just the blue rooms).</p>
<p>Thanks for that clarification, chaleki.</p>
<p>did you get the invitation letter to the open house before your decision letter? I don't think i could wait any longer. Ha ha. But i am enjoying second semester senior year :)</p>
<p>bump! please answer my previous question!</p>
<p>I think my son got the open house invitation around the same time--maybe a day or two before the online acceptances.
Sorry if this doesn't help with your anxiety. You'll find out in less than two weeks, I believe.
Good luck!</p>
<p>thank you very much for answering! Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>whoo hoo i got into irvine. i just have to wait for la...hopefully i will know this week or next week.</p>