Getting admitted to a music conservatory

sopranomom92
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:56:17 +0000

Med school near an excellent music school: U of Rochester/Eastman School of Music. Of course, there are many others.

I do hope that mom comes around and realizes that the student needs to make her own decisions regarding her career. The young lady is very accomplished already–it’s hard for me to understand the down side of waiting until she is older to apply/attend medical school.

On a related note, I recently attended a very large party at a physicians home, where a fabulous, I mean FABULOUS band was playing. All the band members were physicians–ortho specialists, a neurosurgeon… They gig together on a regular basis. My relative plays in a community band made up of many retired professional musicians, and quite a few excellent players in the group are physicians, engineers and the like. Others have pointed out that music students on the whole do quite well in their applications to medical school.

I think the OP’s daughter has the potential to have both music and medicine play major roles in her life, if she wishes. Parents, give her the space and support and time to make these decisions on her own. Even if she were to go to music school and get her BMus, it sounds like she’d be only 19 or 20 years old at the end of that. At that point, if she feels drawn toward medicine, she can always study for and take the MCats then. Why the rush? Good luck, and I do hope Mom lightens up a bit. It is hard to let go, but we must.