@AmyIzzy We were in your shoes this time last year. My D did not get a scholarship for 5 week. We struggled with our choice. My D did much research and compared doing 2 different camps or some combination of 2 Berklee workshops or one Berklee workshop and the NYU songwriting camp. We never looked at Miami, so I can’t weigh in on that one. I can see how there would be some benefit to attending two different programs. But the choice will have to be what your family can manage.
We found that the price of the programs we were considering pretty much added up to, or very close to the same as 5 week. I suppose the possibility of earning college credit for all that money was also a deciding factor. We chose to send our daughter to Berklee 5 week. It was a financial stretch. She had never been to a summer music program so my husband and I decided that the 5 week program would give her the best opportunities for growth before heading into college auditions in the fall. I don’t know where you live and what types of training your daughter has at home. We have pretty much nothing at home so my daughter would not have progressed much at home.
My daughter loved her time at Berklee. She did grow and improve while she was there. She has even said that she continues to use what she learned at Berklee in her private lessons and in her prep for college auditions. She also earned college credit that her college will accept. I will say 5week is what you make of it. Some things were not exactly what I thought they would be but my D says she was fine with it and learned a lot anyway. She would say it’s what she needed at the time. 5 week was a great experience for my D. I don’t think she would have had the same outcome from college auditions if she had not gone to 5 week. Let me know if you have any specific questions.