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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if anyone remembers back in 2007 that Joshua Bell, one of the world famous violinists, stood in front of a metro station and played for 45 minutes.  Almost no one recognized who he was.  Joshua Bell is a great violinist, but he does not produce anything useful, he just plays music by other composers.  This is the perfect example of someone with a 4.0 GPA, a high SAT/ACT score, and tons of ECs.  HYPMS doesn't want this candidate.

Now replace the same above scenario with Noel Gallagher, the songwriter and singer from the band Oasis, if you don't know who he is.  He would be mobbed by thousands and thousands of fans.  He writes and makes his own music.  This is an example of someone that HYPMS wants.

Can you see the difference?[/quote]

Do you really think that HYPMS only accepts Noel Gallaghers? You are delusional. Majority of students getting in are sheep and just know how to play like Joshua Bell. I don’t know a single kid that was accepted who was like Noel Gallagher. They were either very ordinar legacy students with zero to mediocre ECs, recruited athletes, kids of influential parents etc.. not one of them was a creative kid. All sheep or all there because of connections.[/quote]

DP.  You don't have to be Noel Gallaghers, but you have something unique, HYPMS will take you over someone with 4.0 GPA & a high SAT.  If I can teach a monkey long enough, that monkey can play violin a level or two below Joshua Bell.  What I can't teach the monkey is how to write "don't look back in anger" lyrics or play guitar like Noel Gallaghers.  The world is full of, as Randy Newman put it "and all the people dressed like monkeys" in his "I love L.A." lyric.[/quote]

nonsense. teaching monkey to play violin is not easier than teaching it to write don't look back in anger. AI can do a much better job with the later.[/quote]

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