Reply to # of colleges on your kid's list

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "# of colleges on your kid's list"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now at 10-11, possibly adding 1-2 more.

Kid is applying to music production-type programs and almost all require a portfolio and many an audition. Most also have supplemental essay for the music school (it's sometimes it's own separate document), even if it's a lower ranked program.

Wanted to limit it to fewer because of all the extra work with the audition and everything but also there is so much uncertainty, I feel like there are no safeties. And there will be no "wrapping up" by December. Several programs don't allow EA for majors requiring an audition/portfolio.[/quote]

So very true. Did you look at UMass Lowell? It has a good program and may be rolling or closer to it.

Good luck[/quote]

I will take a look at it, thanks! I realized even the "rolling" deadlines are not quite true for music. Like I had done a typical Google search and put all the EA, RD deadlines in a spreadsheet and listed the rolling as "rolling", only to realize that for music "rolling" is really not true, there's a drop-dead date because they need to schedule the audition. And the general RD date might be mid-Jan for a school but it's Dec. 1 for music, and so on.

Some of the schools do allow for the student to check a box if they wish to be considered for admission for a BA, if they don't make it past the prescreen (BA in music doesn't require audition usually, but BM does), but like, I'm not sure my DS needs to go OOS to say, University of Cincinnati, for a BA in music that he could get at our state flagship. The prescreens present another problem. Like he might know by mid-December that he didn't make it past the prescreen, but mid-December is too late to apply to other music programs RD because their RD deadlines are earlier for music. It sucks.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics