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BWV 211

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  1. Hey there, congrats on the interviews! Your research interests sound fascinating as well. Our applications overlap a bit — Eastman, UNC Chapel Hill, and Harvard. I'm intrigued by your UNC interview; I was accepted last admissions cycle (unfunded), and they did not do interview invites. I did have an informal call in early February with the DGA, who said that this was typical of their admissions process. Perhaps they've changed their policy this admissions cycle, but if so that speaks poorly for me as I've heard nothing from them this time around. I'm glad that you seem to be having better luck with them, and I hope that all of your interviews go well!
  2. Eastman has sent out interview invites for Musicology! There were ten scheduling slots, so I'm assuming that ten applicants advanced to the second round.
  3. It sounds to me as though you are very qualified! But in the end this is really just a crapshoot, and dozens of qualified applicants will be rejected from every program, while acceptance letters will be handed out for sometimes the most arbitrary reasons. I think that one of the best things that you have going for you is the breadth of the net that you have cast; it seems to me that with your credentials, at least one of those ten programs should accept you with funding. We're all rooting for you! As for the GRE scores, I've applied to several of the same schools (for Musicology), and the GRE requirement has been waived, ostensibly due to the pandemic (though I expect to see the phasing out of standardized testing requirements to become the norm). But even if they are being reviewed by your programs, my advisor told me that GRE scores are so distant that admissions committees only really consider them if all else is equal. If nothing else, the weight of standardized testing scores seems to be loosing its grip; Yale, for instance, required them for the Musicology PhD last year (at the height of the pandemic), but has discontinued the requirement for this year. Applying for a PhD in Musicology, I was one that fell through the cracks last year (accepted to three programs, but only funded at my master's institution). I decided to enroll so I could use the year gaining experience and building my CV, which I did; I now have conferences ranging from regional (various AMS chapter meetings) to national (SAM 2022 and volunteering at AMS 2021) to international (IMS 2022), experience designing and teaching my own college curriculum, a position as program annotator for a medium-sized professional orchestra, and, most importantly, a revise-and-resubmit from the Journal of the Society for American Music. But I wouldn't describe myself as confident as much as I would curious to see what comes next. At some point we will all make peace with the fact that we presented the best versions of ourselves that we could, and that the rest is up to chance. But I have hopes that we will still get a shot at a PhD this admissions cycle!
  4. Thank you for starting this discussion! I've applied for a PhD in Musicology, and I've so far had some (extremely) early news from my two safety schools; an acceptance from the Catholic University of America and an interview from the University of Maryland. Obviously I am looking to matriculate into a program with a more consistent record of academic job placement, so we'll see how this goes. Best of luck to everyone this admissions cycle!
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