AUSTIN, Texas — The 17-year-old killed in the Austin bombings would have found out Friday he had been accepted to a prestigious music school.
Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory of Music said Draylen Mason would have been offered one of the school's 130 spots. Almost 1,500 students applied. Oberlin said the decision had been made before Draylen died.
He was a upright bass player, and he had been accepted to other colleges. The March 12 blast that killed Draylen also seriously hurt his mother.
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