Double major Russian/Viola Performance suggestions

wimabi
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:58:53 +0000

My son wants to major in viola performance, but also has a passion for languages. He was born in Switzerland and speaks French well. His college credits in languages are

French 201 and 202
German 101 and 102
Russian 101 plus he has spent 2 summers at Concordia Language Villages studying Russian and will continue to study Russian his senior year and hopes to return to Concordia as a counselor next year.

His university GPA is a 4.0, though his HS GPA is lower - I believe an unweighted 3.6/4.0 and he has only taken 2 APs (English and Calculus) since his High School is an Arts Conservatory and does not offer any science APs. I am hoping the score will arrive today in the mail.

He has spent the past two years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts studying viola performance (they have a high school boarding section), he has studied viola since age 7 and has gone to music summer camps since he was 10, including NCSA, Credo, and 2 years at Domaine Forget in Qu