<p>Female at a highly competitive public school on Long Island, NY.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.8 UW/ 4.0+W
SATs: 1860
Rank: Top 20% of class</p>
<p>My essay was really great, I think. I put so much work into my. My English teacher told me that it was excellent and used it as an example of an essay you should strive to write for college, so I suppose that’s a good sign! I wrote about where I take music lessons and how it motivates me. I also think my “Why I Want To Go To BU” essay was good. =]</p>
<p>Awards:
High Honor Roll (all throughout high school)
Honors Choir Award (11th)
Computer Graphics Award (9th)
Photography Award (10th)</p>
<p>Art show cased in Long Island University (10th grade)</p>
<p>ECs:
National Honor Society
Peer Tutoring once a week for NHS
Tri-M Music Honor Society Exec Member
Art Honor Society Member
A Capella </p>
<p>I work part time in retail, about 15 hours a week.</p>
<p>Courses this year:</p>
<p>AP English
AP Art
Psychology
Economics/SUPA Participation in Government (half year classes that count for .5 History credit each)
Pre-Calc
Honor Choir</p>
<p>I’ve been involved in music since elementary school, and I’ve been taking private lessons since I was 14. I’m pretty confident in my audition in February. =] </p>
<p>Thanks for taking out the time to read this!</p>
<p>Hmm. I’m assuming you are a voice student, not an instrumentalist. At some schools, the standard for auditions for the music education majors isn’t quite as high as for the performance majors…I don’t know whether BU works that way or not. Also, I don’t know whether the audition carries more weight for music ed prospective students…as it does with performance majors.</p>
<p>Yup, I’m a vocalist. And that’s true, it’s much less competitive to get into Music Education than it is to get into vocal performance. I think the audition is supposed to have the same weight as your academics, in your admission, but I’m not really sure how BU does it either.</p>
<p>I’m a violin performance student at BU. It’s true that the required level of the audition is considerably lower for music ed than for performance, but it’s also true that there are some very fine performers in the music ed department-- in fact, Edward Akatz, formerly of the Chicago Symphony percussion section and now a successful rock drummer, majored in music ed at BU!
I imagine that academics carry more weight in music ed admissions than in performance; the current string players studying music ed are quite strong academically. Can’t really comment on standards for music ed students in the voice department; there doesn’t appear to be much clear discussion of this on the website.
Your essay on “why BU” and the supplemental School of Music application will probably be very important-- I’ve heard that music ed programs screen closely for motivation to teach.</p>
<p>“Your essay on “why BU” and the supplemental School of Music application will probably be very important-- I’ve heard that music ed programs screen closely for motivation to teach.”</p>
<p>That’s good! My “Why BU” essay was pretty much entirely about my desire to teach music, and how different factors of BU will help me do that.</p>