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Unfortunately our DC was not accepted to VA.

But, if helpful, the email did include the following: If you are interested in pursuing another course of artistic expression at Duke Ellington, we still have spaces available in the following departments: Dance, Instrumental Music (oboe, flute, bassoon, tuba, strings), Theatre, and Vocal Music.[/quote]

I really don’t understand how they could not find “qualified” students for those highly competitive programs (dance, instrumental, theatre, and vocal) when all had many, many, many students audition, and NOW think they will find them after April?[/quote]

I'm really curious as to what qualifies students to make the cut.  It seems that they are truly looking for the best of the best, and won't fill spaces with mediocre students.  
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This is the question. And there are a lot of students who fill the distance between "mediocre" and "best of the best." And those are the students who made callbacks -- students who have talent + experience in the discipline, went through the application process as written, and truly want to be at the school. But still Duke Ellington kept open spaces instead of taking a chance on these apparently good, even great, but less than exceptional kids. OK, but where are they expecting to find more "best of the best" now? I assume they want to get to full enrollment for budget reasons? [/quote]

From the email I got, I was under the impression that they keep a couple spots open in each discipline for non-residents. Does that mean they take top non-residents over good, but not great residents? It’s all very opaque.[/quote]

No. It means the opposite actually. Residence is not considered during the auditions, but if you are among those who pass the auditions  the DC residents get first dibs. [/quote]

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