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Looks like we're pretty much down to Yale. They're keeping up the suspense!

Congrats! Becca, you'll love KU and you'll love Lawrence.

Hopefully Yale will just get the massacre over with.

I don't know much about the pizza in Evanston, but there's a place in Lincoln Park called Pequod's that is pretty dang good. Gino's is overrated. (I'm gonna have to do some research on what pizza is good around Evanston -- gonna be in town in two weeks!)

Ruh-roh.

Apparently they also thought yesterday was a beautiful day for not determining people's futures. Maybe today!

Maybe today will be the day! (probably not!) Here's a youtube video fitting for the mood of the day:

I'm convinced it was intentional. Especially brutal since I checked it on my phone, where the subject line comes up as "Yale Graduate School A...."

So guys, I got an email from Yale today! ... unfortunately it was an "automated response" to a question I emailed them back in freaking December. DON'T PLAY WITH MY HEART.

Honestly, if I were a comp applicant, I wouldn't be too bummed to get rejected from Princeton. Not naming names, but the only composer there I'm familiar with is a little pretentious. To put it mildly. But wth Yale! I'm with you guys -- I fully expect to be rejected, but I want to get an interview before I get rejected. That's not asking too much, right?

Yup, finishing up theory and comp double BMs currently, now in the dual-state of grad applications and life-goals indecision/panic. McGee is a great guy. I was at that Pierce recital, that "Twelve Kisses" song cycle was really something, wasn't it? I think KU is definitely more accepting of heavier pop/folk influences. Haaheim was actually a session bassist in San Francisco before he joined academia, Barnes has a strong jazz background, and Pierce definitely has some love for pop music influences as well. We have a DMA comp student right now whose background (I believe) is mostly African folk music. You'll definitely dig it if (hopefully, when) you get in. Not that I really have a lot of experience elsewhere, but the KU music school is a really friendly, supportive community. I'm really impressed with the theory/comp faculty as well, all of them are really easy to work with.

Nope. Still waiting, hopefully next week I suppose.

Yeah, I'm interested to hear back from Yale and Texas. Nice to know that at least Yale probably won't be too long of a wait to find out about interviews. Based on the ridiculousness that is the Texas application system (felt like their were 18 different forms and places to send things for them, not to mention one of their pages is dedicated to applications for study of "voila"), I'm not really expecting an expedient response.

UMKC has a pretty good rep, but I'm really not super familiar with them. My only experience with their composers is from when one of their composition DMAs brought some ensemble to KU to play a bunch of Elliot Carter / faux Elliot Carter around a year ago, and I really hope that sort of thing isn't all they're up to in KC. Composition professors at KU are pretty fantastic. You'll like them if you end up at KU. Barnes and Pierce are great, and I'm pretty sure Haaheim is cooler than most of the people I hang out with.