best schools for vocal major

musicprnt
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:06:51 +0000

What you may be looking for is going to be a stand alone music school, rather than a music school in a conservatory. conservatories don’t really use academics in admissions (unless the student is a total academic screw up), the music schools inside universities require you to get admitted to the university, and while they tend to be a bit lenient with the academic side compared to straight academic admits, her GPA and test scores could be a problem. Conservatories also have less so called general ed classes/liberal arts classes than you would take in a university.

One point of warning, though, conservatory classes are not all going to be singing. Music schools have theory and ear training tracks, and despite what non music people think, these are not ‘crap courses’ , they are not easy and are pretty academically intensive (my son is TA’ing in an ear training class, and also does theory tutoring, and said a lot of the kids were shocked how intensive it was and were struggling with it). If your D struggles with academic courses, that may be a concern. Has she been exposed to the theory side? When she did the Berklee program, did she do anything around theory, or was it strictly singing?