Scotty McCreery to Attend North Carolina State University

By On 03/30/2012 · 63 Comments · In American Idol, Scotty McCreery

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AMERICAN IDOL: Scotty McCreary performs on AMERICAN IDOL airing Thursday, March 29 (8:00-9:00PM ET/PT) on FOX. Pictured L-R: Scoty McCreary, Jimmy Iovine and Ryan Seacrest. CR: Phil Mcarten / FOX.

Scotty McCreery reveals to CMT radio that he was accepted to all 4 schools he applied to, but has ultimately decided to accept admittance to North Carolina State University in Raleigh–hid Dad’s alma mater. He may transfer to a school in Nashville after 2 years.

Tonight, Scotty will perform at the Freemont Street Experience ahead of the ACM awards set to air live from Vegas on Sunday.   Scotty will be presenting an award and performing his new single “Water Tower Town.”   He’s also nominated for ACM Best New Artist which is partially determined by fan vote.

Congratulations Scotty! Kudos for keeping up the academics.

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  • Anonymous

    What can I say except that I am uber proud of Scotty!!!

    He kept his promise to pursue his college education and he has stayed totally grounded amidst all the achievements he has accomplished.
    How can one not admire someone like him?!?!  I DO!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the photos Lexie!  Awesome crowd. Hope some videos surface later.
    By the way, since this is a Scotty thread just wanted to ask if anyone (who’s a member of his fan club) is having problem logging into his Scottyfans.com website?  Thanks in advance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AGWO435FL6UN2ICRVTFLWRJZSA Lexie

    I haven’t even been able to fully join the fan club yet, problems with Paypal. 

    I had to go see which pic had the evil-eye girl, LOL.  Those two girls looked like they were younger, might have thought they’d get to meet him, etc.  AI seems to make people think they know these guys personally…the one I’d worry about is the slightly older woman tweeting him constantly and went to his house…wow.
     

  • Anonymous

    That’s a picture of me.

    Just kidding.

  • Anonymous

    Most profs don’t really care about attendance.  I was in one class once:  one day we had 12 students attending the lecture.  The next day there were 200 students attending the midterm.

  • Anonymous

     As a prof, as you call us, I can tell you that most professors DO care about attendance because we know that attenders are actually learning the material, but we generally acknowledge that by college age, one is an adult who chooses whether or not to attend, whether or not to listen, whether or not to learn.  So, generally, the students who care attend (I’m not saying here that he doesn’t care.  Sheesh, don’t jump my shit about this statement).  I agree though that it’s possible to pass without attending regularly, in some classes.  Also, and this is a really good option for someone like Scotty, every semester I teach at least one of my courses completely on-line, so something like that could be part of the plan.

  • Anonymous

    It depends on what college you attend. Some colleges have a required attendance amount. I attended a college where if you missed more than 5 classes for a course that semester you automatically failed the course.

  • Incipit

     As you point out, Triskel there are many avenues for satisfying the course requirements – Scotty will be fine. Since the circumstances of winning AI have rearranged his original college plan – he’s certainly going to find ways to work within them.

    We could think of it as a person working their way through college, with a sometimes demanding job that can take focus – countless people manage it, all the time.

    DavidC was writing songs, recording albums and playing gigs and regional tours while he was in college; it’s doable…even if it turned into a 5yr Plan. Heh.

    And Scotty has management to arrange the gigs and the transportation of the band and equipment, do the advance PR, bring in the merch, negotiate the terms and collect the monies – none of the normal concerns for a young artist even have to worry him. Just rehearse and show up…and leave it on the stage.

    He’s a motivated and determined young man – I see no reason to be concerned for him at all.

    JMO. Of Course.

  • mchcat

    There are two videos – TTWG and WMY# are both on fansofscotty

  • Anonymous

    Good for him.

  • SaSa8

    I am so happy for Scotty.  I had a strong feeling this would be his choice of colleges to attend.  Scotty is keeping his feet on the ground like he said he would.  He loves what he is doing and is grateful for the career he is building.  But he also wants to live life and experience things that he always imagined.  He indicated in an interview that he would take classes to help him with his career like marketing, communications, etc.  So even though he may not be “studying music” I have no doubt going to NCSU will further his career.  Doubters said he couldn’t go back to his high school and he did, that he couldn’t play varsity baseball and he is, so this will be no different.  He has my respect – that is for sure. 

  • Anonymous

    I remember Scotty saying in an interview that he does want education to lean back on because he knew that in music business today your status can change within months.

    He is a very smart young man.  I hope that his young fans appreciate and follow his example.  And I wish him well combining strategies in a way that works for him and his career.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nancy.alexander.526 Nancy Alexander

    CLEP used to stand for “college level entrance program”, but I don’t know if they call it that anymore.  Our oldest daughter was able to pass enough college level courses to cut her time down to 3 years, and save a whole lot of money!!  Proud of her too.  I think it also speaks well of her high school education. 

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