That's that
Apr. 26th, 2005 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariOregon rejected me, too. No grad school for me this year.
I really wasn't expecting this. All the signs were pointing to yes - I had forged a good connection with one of their professors, I was invited to apply to the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium, I got in to the aforementioned symposium, I received warm e-mails from the school. I flew three thousand miles to visit. I had started communicating with them about my interest in applying in June. I just can't think of another thing I could have done. There must have been something, but no one was telling me what that was.
So here I am, stuck again for another year, when I'd rather be in school in Oregon. I was (and still am) prepared to make the sacrifices moving across the country would entail. It would be worth it.
So now I've got to go through this all again next year. And I'll be reapplying to Oregon and UMKC at least. I may be angry at them now, but I still like them. Hopefully I'll be able to communicate with their faculty over the summer and find out what I can do to improve my application for next year, find out what it was I turned out to be lacking. At least with Oregon, I can do some of that in person in June.
I really wasn't expecting this. All the signs were pointing to yes - I had forged a good connection with one of their professors, I was invited to apply to the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium, I got in to the aforementioned symposium, I received warm e-mails from the school. I flew three thousand miles to visit. I had started communicating with them about my interest in applying in June. I just can't think of another thing I could have done. There must have been something, but no one was telling me what that was.
So here I am, stuck again for another year, when I'd rather be in school in Oregon. I was (and still am) prepared to make the sacrifices moving across the country would entail. It would be worth it.
So now I've got to go through this all again next year. And I'll be reapplying to Oregon and UMKC at least. I may be angry at them now, but I still like them. Hopefully I'll be able to communicate with their faculty over the summer and find out what I can do to improve my application for next year, find out what it was I turned out to be lacking. At least with Oregon, I can do some of that in person in June.
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Date: 2005-04-27 01:13 pm (UTC)Oh yes, I very much intend to go out there and shine so brightly that they are just overcome with regret. And they'll have to give me answers for why I didn't get in and what I can do for my next application. They can't possibly spend two whole weeks hiding from me.
As Stef said, sometimes you're not so much applying as campaigning to get in.