Reply to Colleges with a music ed major that don't require an audition.

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Colleges with a music ed major that don't require an audition. "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look into Susquehanna. 88% acceptance rate and students must get into SU before scheduling an audition (audition is still required).

A friend of mine graduated from their music ed program (10 years ago). She is an amazing teacher, but will be the first to attest she  wasn’t the strongest audition-wise at 17. She had the passion and drive for it, though, which the music department must have seen in her. [/quote]

There are lots of schools that have that two tier process, where first you're accepted to the school, and then to the major. But it means that the 88% acceptance rate doesn't reflect kids who did or didn't get into music.  Susquehanna might be a safety for my kid, in that he could get in as undecided or English or something, but because of the audition it's not a true safety in that there's no way he'd go if he didn't get auditioned.

As someone mentioned, it's tricky because at a small school like Susquehanna there might be one very part time teacher for his instrument who has 4 spaces for private lessons.  So, he's competing for a very small number of spots against the kids who want to be performance or composition majors.   And while he's a strong musician, his music experiences and extracurriculars are more varied than those of someone who wants a performance career.  Future performance majors might spend all their free time practicing one instrument to get as good as possible.  My kid realizes that what he needs is variety, so he's practicing his primary instrument, but also taking piano lessons, and teaching himself guitar, and singing in the choir, and teaching little kid lessons, and volunteering with Special Olympics, because obviously a teacher would use all those skills.  But that means that he's competing for a spot with an individual teacher in his primary instrument against kids who have many more hours on their primary instrument than he does.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics