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[quote=Anonymous]A few questions and considerations my junior has added to her basic list (which includes many mentioned in this thread) after visiting a few schools:

— is housing guaranteed for all 4 years? Are students required to live on campus all 4 years? 
She doesn’t necessarily want to live on campus every year, but feels like she wants the option available. She doesn’t want to be scrambling every year, if apartments are scarce or expensive or inconvenient to campus.

— are there practice rooms available for non-music majors? Are there music opportunities for non-majors? 
Not a music major, doesn’t want to worry about working around roommates to practice her instrument, and wants to find an ensemble of some sort to continue playing with a group

— library environment. Would love a cool old building; but at the very least, it needs a large physical collection and lots of comfortable, inviting, quiet study space. 
She’s already become much more open to larger schools, after touring one too many lovely small schools whose physical book collections fit on a single floor. Or where the library was just kind of waved at vaguely from across the quad. 
I think in her mind, the quality of the library and its collections is indicative of the quality of the education. Not sure how accurate that correlation might be, but I guess there are worse ways to pick a school? Maybe not as a primary factor, but as a tiebreaker, at least. [/quote]

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