<p>Sparrow,</p>
<p>I just noticed from one of your earlier posts that you play flute. You probably know this already, but I want to make sure that you are aware of what you are up against. The flute teachers at Oberlin are Michel Debost and Kathleen Chastain (plus Michael Lynn for Baroque Flute). That makes them one the top flute programs in the country and the competition for places in those studios is fierce. I am not saying that it will be impossible for you to audition into the Conservatory on flute, but your competition is going to be principal flutists at the All-state level and above who been working on their audition material for a year or more (and most of THEM do not get in.) Successful applicants will be doing a decent job with material on the level of difficulty of the flute sonatas of Prokofiev, Poulenc and Bach, the Nielsen Concerto and maybe Debussy’s Syrinx for dessert.</p>
<p>The good news is that with all the piano and flute experience you have, you will probably find the placement tests for music theory pretty easy and may even place out of Theory 1 (and the secondary piano requirements) entirely.</p>