Karajan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wow, that was fast, they just changed it to "complete"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Lol, just got an email from Yale that my application has been sent to the department, and I assumed I had been rejected already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karajan Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Haha, I just got that, too! I initially though, "Wow! That was a quick rejection!" Yikes... My hopes are very low... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I'm going to repeat what I said earlier: you are all talented, intelligent musicians with a natural affinity towards the musical arts. Relax. You'll all be fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkAwayTheDays Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Hey all, I'm a bit late... Applied to CCRMA @ Stanford, MIT Media Lab, UCSB's CREATE lab, and CNMAT @ UC Berkeley. Did anyone else go visit the schools they apply to? I currently work at MIT, so visiting was easy, and I flew out to UCB and Stanford last September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 As of at least this morning, Columbia PhD apps are at the department. (Well, at least it was noted on mine, along with all of the received components, thank God). Hello DrinkAwayTheDays! (I feel like doing so right now...) I'm jealous you visited schools prior to applying. I did not. I still have not. Mostly because of $$, but also because I felt like my application at the time would be better than me in person (a bunch of prior failed job interviews had me not very confident at the time). Now I wish I made those connections earlier. (At least, I did correspond via email and phone.) Also, some of the programs I was applying to--according to their websites--seemed like they'd be bothered if you tried to visit before they invited you. Others were more encouraging! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karajan Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Mine has yet to be updated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Mine has yet to be updated... When I inquired last week, they told me that it should be updated in two weeks (so, by around the 20th) -- and they might be going app by app, not department by department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkAwayTheDays Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Hi snes. Yea, the name is tongue-in-cheek (only a little). I had a good time visiting, it helped me make sure that I was applying to the right places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comp12 Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) My Columbia DMA app has updated that PDF as well. Edited January 13, 2012 by fall2012musiccomp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Ladidadida...*whistles while I wait*....'twould be nice if Cornell updated my app to be "complete" because it seems it is. Maybe it's a similar issue to Penn's app. Someone just has to check off a box somewhere. I'm about to finish a video game I've been working on, so I have to delve quickly into a new book/game/piece before I go even more bonkers as February approaches. Edited January 16, 2012 by snes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karajan Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Ladidadida...*whistles while I wait*....'twould be nice if Cornell updated my app to be "complete" because it seems it is. Maybe it's a similar issue to Penn's app. Someone just has to check off a box somewhere. I'm about to finish a video game I've been working on, so I have to delve quickly into a new book/game/piece before I go even more bonkers as February approaches. Same here re: Cornell (and Columbia, too, incidentally!)... Wot? Anyway, the wait is on! Shouldn't be much longer now, though, of course, the closer we get to when we think we'll hear decisions, somehow the wait seems to be even more difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkAwayTheDays Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Might want to check the twitter acct's of people looking at your applications. A certain UCB composition prof was tweeting about some of the bad things he found in applications a few weeks back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccakephart Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Do you have a link to that twitter acct? I couldn't find it and I would love to see what he had to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comp12 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) If we are thinking of the same person - this is a prof. who has a particularly well known twitter account and following. All he basically said, was just light-heartedly reminding people something on the lines of "if submitting a data cd, make sure your files are actually on it!" Edited January 18, 2012 by fall2012musiccomp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comp12 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 CUNY Graduate Center has sent out a email to composition applicants this afternoon, asking to schedule in-person or phone interviews on February 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karajan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Penn has contacted people for interviews, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comp12 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Congrats on landing the interview, Herbert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Karajan, I might be seeing you at Penn! Have you gotten the scheduling email yet? (I'm waiting for that so I don't think the first email was a mistake...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharma Bum Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yep, the twitter account definitely belonged to the composer I expected! Haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 now that the ball's slowly beginning to roll in the music world..........I'm eagerly looking for distractions from my email. I have three video games in my immediate queue and many, many books. For one, I've never read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and I'm being shamed by my mother for it. And, I almost forgot! Getting my instrumental skills back up to performance levels. Also, most of my work is computer-based, and internet-based, so I'm using the LeechBlock browser add-on to block my email. And possibly this site too. Treating myself like a baby who needs gates around the house is the only way! I also need to file a FAFSA, I guess. It's taxin' time. What are other people doing in the meantime? Is anyone not in school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comp12 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 snes and Karajan, have a wonderful trip to Philly (if you are indeed doing the interview in person)! I'll be making a weekend getaway to NYC for my interview at CUNY in a couple of weekends. Judging from results surveys in past years - Chicago seems to make their offers early - sometimes even in January. I know there are some of us who have applied there - fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snes Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 thank you fall2012 and let us know how it goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkAwayTheDays Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 @snes I'm busy with school, and work. Coding work is the best way to distract myself! Also, I'm applying to jobs in case school doesn't work out. There's a certain large internet-based company in Seattle that's been hounding me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amadeus122 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 congrats to fall2012musiccomp! i'm doing this the second time around, myself. last time, applied with no idea what i was doing and ended up doing a masters in comp. at mannes (finish in may). have interviews at ucla and the hartt school, a 'long distance' theory test for oregon, auditions at peabody and msm. guess i wiped out at cuny, which is disappointing. nice to meet you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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