You know what’s weird? Is that Columbia sent that email to the email that I’m using for my college applications, which is also on my Common App. The email I used to apply to YoungArts was my personal one.
pretty much yeah (it was from calarts iirc)
How did that person receive the letter though? That’s what I’m wondering.
When you are notified that you’re a Winner, Youngarts offers to send a letter to the colleges that you’ve applied to. They do this for all three categories of ‘winner’. They send you a copy of the letter as well. I’d assume the person posting the letter was a finalist as it appears only finalists have been notified so far.
it’s already been submitted, it’s that the portal recommends only sending an update once per semester. so if i update with my other thing now but get yarts in a week, i wouldn’t be able to send it. but i also need to update soon and yarts is happening too late from now, so i just won’t with yarts
Actually, you can have them send the letter that Youngarts offers you directly to Admissions offices of schools you’ve applied to. My son did this as his applications (for music) were all due Dec. 1 and he didn’t find out until mid-December I believe. He had emailed the admissions office’s of the two places he most wanted to get in and they both responded very nicely. Not sure if it helped but he did get accepted both places too. 
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that sounds like it could be a great way of getting around that ‘one portal update per semester’ thing, since the yarts official email to the college technically wouldn’t be a portal update on my end. thank you for telling me about this, if i do end up winning something i’ll keep this in mind!
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uh someone one twitter said that yarts said in a dm that all winners are already emailed? but no one has said anything
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this is kind of an annoying ask but would anyone mind sending a screenshot of that tweet here? I don’t have twitter and I’ve been and it’s been really hard to check what profess they’ve made in terms of contacting winners
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I guess that is it then. I am so grateful for this group. YoungArts is too stressful I will not encourage my daughter to apply next year.
i’m doubting that youngarts has sent all the emails. our discord of last year’s winners have yet to be notified, which is strange considering that many youngarts winners who apply again usually win at least a merit distinction.
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I think you’re right, as they seem a bit confused this year (ie the change to Dec. 3 notification date, then back to Dec. 9).
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im confused having not heard of any merit/hm winner explicitly post that they got merit/hm unlike last year…
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This is so frusturating - should I just assume that I didn’t get anything?
no. keep your head up and await for the best.
thank you! slightly disappointed by all the confusion - I wish they’d post a public announcement verifying this haha
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a lot of people are saying it’s false… so maybe still keep your head up? i don’t know, im frustrated too… but we’re just gonna have to wait it out
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I also think that YoungArts has not notified the hm and merit winners yet. It would be so strange if not one out of 650 people posted about winning. Tbh, the YoungArts Instagram has been misinformed before. They probably were told that the list was being posted today and assumed that emails were already sent. I don’t know, this year is so strange. But best of luck everyone!!