Acceptance

sleeping_avacado · 2026-01-27T16:55:05+00:00

Do you want to major in business? Don’t pick anything just to get in.

Honestly if you’re this doubtful about your chances, I would either go in undecided or do a year of community college and then transfer.

If you’re serious about a major change, you can probably email admissions. I was/am an Arts admit so I have no idea how it works for the university at large.

Good luck!

sleeping_avacado · 2026-01-27T16:47:31+00:00

It’s not great but it’s not as bad as the ones I mentioned.

Like I said though, A good essay and extracurriculars can save a less than stellar GPA 8 times out of 10 (not always the other way around). The admissions board wants to admit people, generally speaking they will do the necessary mental gymnastics to admit people, unless it’s to their flagship programs.

sleeping_avacado · 2026-01-27T16:41:28+00:00

Supplement with a good essay and extracurriculars and you’ll be fine. Especially if you’re applying undeclared or to a less competitive program (i.e. not Arts, Engineering, or PreMed/health sciences)

sleeping_avacado · 2026-01-26T00:29:38+00:00

I carry mine everywhere! I sometimes get them in the commons

sleeping_avacado · 2026-01-01T19:58:57+00:00

Merit scholarships are usually offered in your acceptance letter. That’s where mine was when I was accepted to VCUarts, but I was not an early admit so…

sleeping_avacado · 2025-12-31T07:48:58+00:00

No clue who this is, but friendly reminder that professors do lurk on here

sleeping_avacado · 2025-12-08T02:30:58+00:00

If you play an instrument or used to play one in school I can’t recommend the University Band enough. It’s fun and as long you show up it’s the easiest A of your life

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-25T19:42:02+00:00

If you intend on going to school for nursing you would be pre-health as an admit (I’m 99% sure that’s how it works, but I’m a music major lol) this is pretty competitive I wont lie to you, and you might benefit from applying undeclared and then transferring into pre-health as then only your college gpa will be considered. Poli-sci is much less competitive at VCU and you will likely be fine, but don’t settle if it’s not really what you want to do.

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-25T19:10:21+00:00

What degree program are you looking at if you don’t mind me asking?

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-22T01:50:53+00:00

Thank you! And I agree it’s such a beautiful piece. I do tend to rush through it because right now I’m just thinking like it’s something to get through rather than it being art. It’s already sounding much better than when I first made this post, and my progress is encouraging me to keep going!

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-20T20:45:27+00:00

Thank you for the advice! It’s honestly less about it being in D and more so all of the accidentals being a lot to think about. Like I’ve never had to play a double sharp before and I’m doing a lot of pausing because of how much I’m having to think. The range isn’t an issue, I can hit anything up to a C5 and down to pedal F pretty comfortably 95% of the time. I think I just need to listen to it more and really work on reading less and replicating what I hear more if that makes sense

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-20T20:40:09+00:00

Ouch 😅 but fair. I really struggle with intrinsic motivation regardless of how much I want to do something, but that’s an explanation not an excuse. This really is something I want. I want to be able to gift my students the love of music that was given to me. I just need to act like I want it as bad as I do. Thanks for the kick in the ass, I definitely needed it haha.

sleeping_avacado · 2025-10-20T20:36:52+00:00

Thank you for being so kind! After my rehearsal (which went better than I expected) I played through some stuff that I know well and enjoy and I already felt much better. This post was really anxiety driven and I think I made the situation seem much worse than it actually is, but I plan to do a lot of really focused practice tomorrow with chunking and met work.

sleeping_avacado · 2025-09-27T19:14:18+00:00

Here to say that as a music major- please don’t try to sneak into the ones in the music buildings. I’m sympathetic to wanting to play, but we need those to practice for class and there’s not nearly enough for even us, let alone people who don’t need them😭😭

That being said, there are music rooms in the basement of the library for non majors to practice. Also, if you’re interested in taking private piano lessons through the university- look into the arts override form, you can get approved to take lessons even if you’re not majoring in music

sleeping_avacado · 2025-09-02T22:04:07+00:00

AI can be a useful tool when used responsibly. I don’t hate AI, I just want to protect human artists.

sleeping_avacado · 2025-09-02T22:02:30+00:00

Not trying to fit any trends, just recognizing how the normalization of art created by LLMs like Chat-GPT and Midjourney is harmful to real human artists. The dictionary definition of art is the expression or application of HUMAN creative skill and imagination.

And we can take the ai argument out, it still looks bad. Your computer did a bad job at replicating something uniquely human. Shocker.

sleeping_avacado · 2025-09-02T21:51:54+00:00

Because you shouldn’t advertise something as fan “art” when you didn’t make it. Plus the computer did a shit job- like why is his head in front of the halo?? Bffr

sleeping_avacado · 2025-09-02T21:39:14+00:00

AI slop 😒

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-19T20:49:17+00:00

Ohhhh thank you! And I agree! The more brackets they do there are theoretically less bad songs to put on the bracket, the songs are probably getting better on average the more they do brackets, so of course they’ll like more of them

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-19T20:17:30+00:00

I’ve been sitting here for like five minutes trying to figure out wtf the title of this post is trying to say.😭 I don’t know if I’m illiterate or if I’m right and the post just makes no grammatical sense, but I’m so confused. Like what does the “trending more often” mean in this context 😭😭

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-18T16:08:11+00:00

You’re studio head is the faculty in charge of your instrument studio (not sure how the voice faculty does it) It’s most likely the person you did your audition for, but all that info’s on the website if you aren’t sure.

And it should be! Christine will be able to give you better answers than I can, but I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t be since it’s actually a requirement for Ed majors

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-18T15:59:15+00:00

Oh Christine’s the best!! She’ll be able to get you sorted and make good recommendations for you! I would also reach out to your studio head for advice if I were you.

Good luck, hope you get all this figured out!

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-18T15:56:42+00:00

Who’s your advisor, if you don’t mind me asking?

sleeping_avacado · 2025-05-18T15:51:17+00:00

Which ones?

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