| Academically, all of the schools you mention are quite good; some are obviously harder to get into, but in any one of them you will get a first-rate education. Whether you would have a first-rate music experience is another matter, and at what cost financially (e.g. Harvard/NEC = Harvard tuition + $6,000, then NEC tuition; Columbia/Juilliard = Columbia tuition, then Juilliard tuition) and to your social life/sanity, trying to do so much at once (check the Internet for an account by Alisia Weilerstein of her time as a Columbia/Juilliard student -- she loved it, but it was hard to balance)? |