<p>In response to crazymusicmom’s question: At one school, the potential teacher met with my son at the end of the day to let him know that he was accepted (and that teacher met with one other student–it wasn’t that they were necessarily any better than the other auditioners, but just that they were the only two internationals that auditioned that day). </p>
<p>At another school, the potential teacher emailed right after hearing the video to let my son know he would be accepted (pending academic acceptance). </p>
<p>At a third school, after the auditions, son was invited to a scholarship audition and received either a text or email (can’t remember) letting him know that he was the only undergrad to win the major scholarship (but son wasn’t sure if this meant he was admitted–I assured him that it probably did). </p>
<p>At the three most competitive schools (Juilliard, CIM, and Rice), none of the teachers directly said that he was accepted, but how they spoke suggested that he was (at two of the schools, the prospective teacher asked to meet with son later in the day and one of the prospective teachers was the school’s president, so we took that as a positive sign; at the school where the teacher wasn’t the president, after the teacher asked my son where else he had applied, the teacher assured him that he would get into all of the schools–we weren’t so sure since places like Juilliard, CIM, Rice, and Colburn are very competitive for violin; we thought that this reassurance from the teacher might be more a reflection of the teacher’s warmth and desire to encourage than a reflection of reality, but fortunately we were wrong!).</p>