| Wow, what a fabulous list of decisions! Congrats to you and your daughter.
i have no real experience with any of the schools but some hearsay:
Regarding Princeton, a neighbor's son is graduating from Princeton this year, biology, I think. He's had many, many opportunities for singing and doing theater in his years--choral, solo, a cappella, opera chorus (his parents are always going to Princeton to hear him sing). A summer intern in my husband's architecture firm went to Princeton to study architecture but had such a wonderful time singing opera that she's considered doing so in grad school--this was a few years ago, so I'm fuzzy on the details. I have another friend who with her daughter has done serious research into colleges that allow double major or at least serious focus on both music and linguistics and Princeton is at the top of her list (her D is a 2013 applicant).
My son applied to Brown (rejected) and sang for choral director and rehearsed with choir. Choral director is a great guy (told son he'd twist arms to get him in, but son's GPA was unsurmountable obstacle, not to mention the competition was fierce!) and the choir travels and sings good repertoire, appeared to be a very friendly atmosphere. I don't know about the rest of the music program. |