Applying for Fall 2010 Music Megathread

[Soclose]

No... admissions was hoping to get the decisions from the comp department on Wednesday, though when I spoke with them, they didn't sound entirely sure they would be able to.

[Timothy Vallier]

Bummer, maybe we'll have to wait until April.

[artenystea]

Hi everyone! All on my results are in - I got into the music history M.A. programs at Madison and Seattle, waitlisted at McGill. I was just wondering if anyone has any advice about Madison vs. Seattle: I applied to both without doing a ton of research. I am interested in historical musicology, focusing on opera. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[Timothy Vallier]

I just got a letter from Stony Brook with an offer of half tuition paid. Alright! Going there.

Anyone still waiting?

Care to share your final choices for the record?

[jose]

Congrats, Timothy!

I'm off to UC Davis, pretty damn excited about it.

[perrier]

Greetings,

I am delighted to come across this thread, and congratulations to all the musicians/composers/musicologists with their respective school offers! I myself am thinking about pursing a PhD in a musicology programme in the UK, and am seeking advice which revolve mainly around monetary issues. I would like to ask for feedback from both current and previous PhD candidates in the music field for their experiences. I hope that I am not too late in posting a query for some answers this late in the summer...

My questions are as such: Are/Were you required to pay for tuition when you did your PhD program(s)? My programme is associated with musicology, but I currently have a few friends who are doing post-graduate work in various fields (statistics, psychology, neuroscience, etc.). While they understood that it was competitive to earn a phd studentship (ie scholarship) in the UK, they were nevertheless concerned that I even had to pay for tuition at all. In fact, they stated that as a phd candidate, I should at least be paid extra (living expenses covered) to attend or be enrolled with an accompanying teaching job. Was that the case for most of you? Were you completely covered by the school while you did your PhD? In my case at the moment, it sounds like that a little over half of the tuition is covered for three years conditional upon a few T.A. jobs, but I also need to support a couple of grand on my own per year, including living expenses (I do not have the formal details as I am still waiting for the formal documents to arrive in the mail). In theory, I am fully funded if I am a "local student" in the UK, but as I am not, I need to pay an "international fee", of which the tuition is twice as much as that of a local student. Does it sound wrong to you to pay for a PhD programme at all, and would you recommend me not pursuing it if I had to, and rather, wait for a programme that offered a full-ride, which is what is usually supposed to be? My impression was that in Music it is different, as there is less funding for this field, but I could be wrong. Thanks a lot in advance for your help and I appreciate the feedback... please let me know what you think. Cheers!