<p>I've seen this thread on other forums (theater, MT) but have not been able to find it in Music, nor on the websites of the schools I've looked at. When do admissions offers go out? Or the dreaded "nopes"? One of the arts student handbooks says, for instance, that BU notifies you in June, which can't possibly be true. Can it?</p>
<p>I ought to have specified regular admissions, as the early birds are already hearing…</p>
<p>Unless the school has rolling admissions, the magic day is April 1!</p>
<p>Most schools aim to notify everyone of acceptances and rejections by April 1. I have heard of schools being anywhere from a few days to about a week late.</p>
<p>A notification in June is far too late. It might apply to someone on the waiting list, but I would expect most of those to go out in mid- to late-May. My daughter received a rejection from BU sometime in March as I recall. The timetable published by BU is at [Critical</a> Dates | Boston University Admissions](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/freshman/critical-dates/]Critical”>Important Deadlines | Admissions) and it says late March to early April, with May 1 as the deadline to accept an offer of admission. That is for the whole school, not just music majors.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys. Jeesh, a month hasn’t felt this long since I was about six and waiting for my birthday. Didn’t even get the darn pony, either.</p>
<p>I will tell you that my son heard from all his colleges last year before April 1, with March 31 being the day for both Peabody and Columbia. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!!!</p>
<p>At several parent sessions held during auditions at music schools within universities, we were told about notification dates including March 15, week of March 15, or later part of March. These were places that adhere to that April 1 notification for regular admissions to non-music applicants. </p>
<p>As long as we are on the topic of notification, here is a question. When notification of admission comes from the music school of a university, would that “thick envelope means acceptance, thin envelope means rejection” apply, since it is likely that for accepted students, the university admissions might also be sending some other mailing separately?</p>
<p>Ah, I have to climb back into my aged old memory bank LOL! </p>
<p>Two years ago, S had all of his notifications in hand by March 30, with the first one coming on the 28th of March. It was the longest month of my life, bar none (even the month before giving birth did not drag so much!).</p>
<p>If I remember, S received two acceptances by email, including one with a congratulatory phone call beforehand (a nice touch!). The others came by snail mail, and all had big envelopes, with merit scholarships etc. inside.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! The countdown has begun!</p>
<p>I think a thick envelope is always good news, but a thin one is not necessarily bad. (At least I have never heard of anyone so cruel as to send out a rejection letter with much more than a brief survey attached.) I seem to remember that my daughter’s Oberlin acceptance was just two or three sheets of paper with more to follow. Fortunately, it was anticlimactic because of the email she had received a couple of days earlier informing her of her acceptance there.</p>
<p>Those waiting to hear will swear that entire years have passed more quickly than the next four to five weeks. Just be prepared for the clock to speed up again in April, when there are important decisions to be made before the May 1 response deadline.</p>
<p>My sons came in a thin envelope. Just make sure you curb those tendencies to start stalking the postman in a couple of weeks!</p>
<p>Oberlin, Peabody and Northwestern all came via email, followed by snail mail. I think New School did too (?) but I could be wrong about that. I can’t remember how McGill came? I think my son checked online, as he did for Columbia.</p>
<p>Rigudon - I believe U Mich is one that you’ll be waiting to hear from and should tell you that my recollection is that McSon received his acceptance to the SOM in a one-page letter regular envelope (that might otherwise look like rejection). But in his case, he’d already received the LSA/dual degree admit pack, so there was really nothing else to send. His scholarship was sent almost a month later than admittance – also a “thin” envelope 
Perhaps, if one has only applied to SOM, however, a full admit package comes. Don’t know, just wanted to give you a heads up!</p>
<p>PS - I just checked our old records and see that he FIRST knew when he was notified via the WolverineAccess online system…the letter came the following week.</p>
<p>Last year, browsing through the old thread of acceptances, it seemed that a lot of people were starting to hear around the 15th.</p>
<p>Double-post… I know of a few people who recieved calls from SUNY Purchase today to notify them of acceptance. I don’t know their major, however, so it might not be music/arts.</p>
<p>On a related note: how about summer festivals? Specifically, Aspen (cello)? I’m starting to get angsty.</p>
<p>I’m starting to think the worst part is the post-audition parsing of remarks. What did this mean? What did that mean? The poet had it wrong. March is certainly the cruelest month.</p>
<p>Anything from SUNY Purchase? Anyone?</p>
<p>A thin envelope is not always bad news. </p>
<p>S received a $10,000 academic merit scholarship and it was one piece of paper in a normal envelope from the Office of Admissions. He had already been admitted to the university (but had not yet auditioned for the music program). We were stunned – and wow … did he roam the house singing after that! </p>
<p>When that same school sent his acceptance to the music program, it was one piece of paper in a regular envelope again.</p>
<p>datripp, that is SO true. You just can’t go there…well, as little as possible…well, maybe only a couple times a day…</p>
<p>Most (all?) of D’s acceptances came via e-mail and then followed up with the snail mail copies. Nope, one came via snail mail and it was a thin envelope, so you can’t tell in advance. Traditionally, Eastman has been the latest of the schools to send things out( a couple of years ago they didn’t get letters out of the office until the third week in April- which was better than the time, must be about 10 years or so ago now, when someone mixed up the “yays” with the “nays”, and the letters were sent to the wrong people! They were very gracious and did admit those who chose to accept even though they had, in reality, not been admitted). At any rate, for those awaiting word from ESM, the office is “under new management” this season, so perhaps things will be different.</p>