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| | YAM Summer 2002 - Making Music Matter |
 | | Yale accepted about 25 percent of applicants to the Music School for 2002-03, down from 38 percent from 1995-96, and competition for admission to some programs is even tougher -- for example, last year, 84 people applied for four spots in the composition program. |
 | | But Yale is also home to the well-regarded undergraduate department of music, a chamber-music society; a collection of more than 1,000 rare and period musical instruments, and a digital media center in whose studios students can learn computer sound, graphics, and video. |
 | | Although the School's endowment has grown to $110 million from $30 million in 1995, Blocker said it's still too small for a field in which the typical graduate student incurs $30,000 to $80,000 in educational debt and is under pressure to work outside his or her art just to repay the loans. |
| www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_07/music.html (2788 words) |
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