<p>So my daughter won honorable mention in Youngarts. Anyone had any experience with this organization and the ramifications of this honor. It's wonderful given she did not want to apply and made the cut off time by the skin of her teeth. But how is it viewed by the schools. Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>My son was a finalist last year. We had already submitted all of his applications by the time we found out, so he sent an email to admissions (and followed up later with the letter that YA gave him confirming his status.) While people mentioned it and congratulated him, I really don’t think it had any bearing on his admissions or scholarships. It’s all based on auditions. Congrats to your D though! Even honorable mention is an accomplishment.</p>
<p>If you are talking an auditioned performance degree it probably won’t mean much, the audition and a teacher wanting to teach you is going to determine getting in there and probably scholarships as well. It might help with admissions where you are applying to a music school in an LAC as an EC/Honor, but for performance it won’t really do much.</p>
<p>My two younger daughters had this honor. For the music conservatory kid it was meaningless. For the other one it did, I think, open some doors. (But I can’t be sure.) At least, it was noted and generated some attention.</p>
<p>That’s a nice honor, congratulations! It can do a lot for building confidence, but at the schools, the audition will be the main event that determines admission…plus, possibly a sample lesson(s) which is a great way to get more information about the prospective student, and vice versa. If they even take a look at the resume, they’ll probably skim it at best. It’s a big deal to the kids right now, but many teachers are only vaguely aware of or haven’t even heard of YA, and some just roll their eyes at competitions in general as it’s so very subjective. Next year at this time when they’re all freshmen, if your daughter is at a top level program, there will be YA Finalists, HM and Merit winners, and those who didn’t receive any recognition at all, plus those who didn’t bother to enter…and there probably won’t be much difference between any of them as far as talent is concerned. Enjoy the recognition and good luck!</p>
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Nicely said, probably the best way to look at a win in any competition or whatever. I know people who didn’t even place in Young Arts who got into topnotch schools, I know of kids who got into the program itself, and couldn’t get into a top program with their skillset (which simply says the whole process in YA and at the schools is subjective…). Agreed, the audition is critical and any kind of exposure to the teachers in the programs via sample lessons, master classes or the like is very valuable. much more than the resume that probably won’t even be a looked at more than likely.</p>
<p>It was a nice conversation starter when the auditions also had discussions (there were a couple that did) and I think nicely noted at her “safeties”. At conservatories not so much.</p>
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<p>^Forgot to add to to my post the kids who insisted on applying to YA without any adult supervision and didn’t follow one of the requirements on the rep list who probably were eliminated…those students will be in the freshmen group too. Just sayin’…LOL!</p>
<p>She sounds great. I think she’ll be fine.</p>