Conservatory questions: ACT/SAT and course load

old_music_prnt
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:53:08 +0000

People have pretty much answered this. With standalone conservatories (NEC, Juilliard, Curtis) SAT/ACT mean nothing basically. It can matter with music schools inside colleges (like Bard, where kids have to dual major). Basically with a stand alone conservatory it is the audition, unless you were a total space cadet in school and got F’s, grades and stats don’t mean anything. Obviously if you are talking a program like NEC/Harvard or Juilliard/Columbia , then academics will matter.

My understanding from the schools I know of if it is a music school in a university it is likely that grades and ACT/SAT will matter (again, every school is different). Obviously is someone is doing a dual degree then the academic stats are going to be important.