Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080229 Friday February 29, 2008

Accepted by Music!

My daughter Jessica had originally applied to Carnegie Mellon University as a Music major. She was turned down by the Music department but accepted by CMU in the Humanities Scholars Program. She has been very happy in her CMU Freshman year in Pittsburgh, PA, and made the Dean's List in her first semester (meaning that CMU is also happy with her!). As soon as she could, Jessica applied for a Music Minor. She just called to say she was accepted! We are very happy and proud.

When we were researching colleges in 2006, we saw that the Fiske Guide to Colleges (22nd Edition, 2006) summary of CMU was: "Carnegie Mellon is the only premier technical university that also happens to be equally strong in the arts. Applications nearly doubled in the past ten years, so it must be doing something right." This sounded like a good fit for Jessica's strengths and interests (and so it has turned out).

Jessica will be singing 26-29 June 2008 as one of the three genii (or three boys) in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote), at Saltnote Stageworks in Washington, D.C. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

Posted at 03:47PM Feb 29, 2008 by katysblog in Home & Family  |