JustAnotherComposer

No more school for me. Not the outcome I wanted, but may well be for the best.

I’ve committed to not committing anywhere, which is worth celebrating in its own way I guess.

It’s a Waitlist-a-thon at Northwestern!

Again, I’ll say I know someone there who got ghosted there after an interview only to be admitted in April. They were just on an internal waitlist.

Presumed NYU rejection has arrived.

Ah! Yeah you 1000% need to know the full details before saying yes. It's odd that they haven't been provided. Congrats on the acceptances in any case!

? Care to elaborate?

Congrats! You planning on going there or depends on others? I’m still waiting on 6 decisions so uh, any day now... Of course some of them seem to have a habit of waiting until the end of March to send the rejections.

Brutal. They didn’t even have a cycle last year. Thanks for the update though.

Someone early posted that UCSD is 'rolling' admissions - so it might mean that they simply haven't arrived at your file yet. Or you're on some sort of waitlist. Who knows! Hope it works out. Anybody apply to Michigan?

There’s one for both composition and musicology actually it seems. Search “music” or “musicology” on the results page (not NYU)

A wild NYU Waitlist appears ?

I guess time will tell! (sorry couldn't help it)

Nope

Results page from previous years suggests Eastman results around beginning of March. There are some UCSD rejections already on the results page so who knows.

Someone randomly spamming the page with "postal service" rejections though. Anyway I just need NYU to notify and then my calculus will be clear. Unfortunately it looks like they don't send rejections until at least a month from now normally? What's up with that...

Well I certainly don’t know if anyone was accepted or not. Sorry it didn’t work out for you. I hope they took someone.

Saw your "no composers were outright admitted this cycle" results post. Really not a fan of this. I know some places don't know ahead of time if they will have any spots at all for composers, but of course that doesn't stop them from taking people's application fees (and then probably never informing them whether or not there was ever a spot). If you can't guarantee that you will be able to take people - either make it known in the application or suspend the cycle. Not that I'm personally affected by this school (but who can say about any others?) but still...

I feel you, with basically all my remaining programs. Probably the people getting in are too well adjusted to be posting on here, ha

I think it depends on the school. Like Eastman is sending out musicology acceptances already but haven't even finished interviewing composers. Some others seem too coordinate though, you're right.

For composition? Likelihood of declining for a poor waitlisted fellow such as myself? Edit: For Ethnomusicology I see from previous post. So it probably won't help, cause the other person is a composer too.

On the waitlist at Duke. Came with a very nice email suggesting they have even fewer spots than normal this year. Just will have to wait it out. Otherwise, no more news.

I guess that’s a no for both of us. In any case, congrats to whoever got the Eastman musicology acceptance!

I spy a Duke musicology waitlist ? Anybody?

I know, at least for composition, that Northwestern can have a silent waitlist - radio silence after interview and then acceptance randomly much later. No guarantee that's what's happening to you of course, but it happened to someone I know. Meanwhile I'll just be over here wishing more of these places with great funding had compositional aesthetics amendable to my own.