@lilylilyshah I sure hope it won’t take them a year and a month to adjudicate X_X
@MandomeLife Haha! Good catch!
On that topic - my son is impatient so he went in search of this years winners. He finds a list of 2016 winners and tells us that’s he’s bummed out because he didn’t win Young Arts this year. 
So if he gets a rejection letter in December… no heartbreak He’ll just say “I already knew that”
@JerseyParents OH NO!!! Haha! Poor kid! He didn’t realize he was auditioning for 2017? What did he audition for? I hope everyone jumps on this thread and posts when they hear something please! Good luck everyone! Hopefully everyone will get phone calls next week! :)]
@JerseyParents Lol, I had a similar situation in February when I was checking to see if I won an award for the poetry that I submitted to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. They posted a winners list, and when I checked it, I didn’t see my name there. I was so crushed! Then, something told me to check the date the file was uploaded and it was from 2015! Boy, was I happy! Long story short, the list of 2016 winners was posted a week later, and I found out I won a Gold Key. Hopefully, your son will get some good news when he sees this year’s winners list!
Does anyone know if the winners will receive emails too?
@trhew118 All winners receive emails.
He’s a singer/songwriter You think he would have noticed the 2017 on the application. I want to thanks everyone here. He would not have know about YA if it werent for a tread from last year I saw on this forum.
Any other good contests a 16 year old singer songwriter could apply too? Thankd
@JerseyParents my D is a singer/songwriter as well. She also auditioned for jazz voice. Please stay in touch on this thread as you hear news. Youngarts posted on their twitter feed that it may be early December for results. Maybe earlier, maybe later. That’s about as vague as one can get! He should look into Berklee college of music’s 5 week summer program. My D is attending this next summer
That’s a great program but he landed a gig as the Music Director of a summer camp and he needs to do that
He toured Berklee and though he liked it, and would consider doing a masters there, he felt it was too narrow for the undergrad experience he was looking for.
His top choices right now are USC/Thornton and Belmont with a spring trip to Miami/Frost scheduled
We may have to look at Belmont. Been hearing a lot about it. We toured Thornton last year and she didn’t really like it. Wasn’t a good fit for her. We have been considering touring Frost but I didn’t see much there in the way of a major that is a fit for her. What is he looking to major in? Just music or a specific discipline? Her top choices are NYU/Clive Davis Institute (although completely unaffordable) and Berklee, also unaffordable but better chance at merit scholarships
The latest on twitter…looks like nobody will hear anything this week like we had hoped. 
Maybe they are being conservative but I recall in years past they tweeted during the week that they were announcing that they were getting ready to announce so I think it will be longer this time.
YoungArts @YoungArts 5m5 minutes ago
@lilylilyshah1 Not yet! We’re wrapping up the adjudications process. Winners will be announced in the next 2-3 weeks. Eeep!
@SpartanDrew thanks for posting this! I too was a little disappointed when I saw this notification on Twitter this morning. Oh well…just a little while longer.
@SpartanDrew I doubt they’ll announce it on Thanksgiving/Black Friday week, so I guess we might be getting an end-of-November/December release for the first time in a while. Thanks for sharing.
@MandomeLife Do you know if Finalists have been called during school hours? My school has really bad cell service, I’m really nervous about missing the call if I do end up qualifying as anything…
YoungArts @YoungArts 6h6 hours ago
@warmnegro It will definitely be in the next 2 weeks as soon as we finish compiling adjudications results and preparing announcements.
Better than 3 weeks!
@Student452 Yep, calls have gone through the morning to late afternoon at my high school.
well hopefully everyone on this thread will post news as soon as they get it. Good or bad. I certainly will. Not my news but my daughter’s LOL. I have taken over her email since she rarely checks it! Hahaha!
Does anyone know what happens if you miss the call? We cannot have our phones on in class, so it would be difficult to pick up if it was during the day.
@annamatisse I think that you would still get a finalist award and would receive an email when the list comes out. Not sure, though!