Help with college list for visits and applications

compmom
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:07:55 +0000

Glad you are on the music forum and that you are reading the Double Degree Dilemma written by David Lane, former admissions for Peabody.

A BA will be 1/4-1/3 music classes, usually no audition for admission, but you can submit a music supplement with recording, music resume and letters of recommendation from teacher or director.

A BM will be 2/3-3/4 music classes, usually with an audition.

Other options are double degree, double major, major/minor and majoring in something else besides music and continuing lessons and extracurricular performance.

One thing to watch out for is whether the best teachers and opportunities go to BM students when you are doing a BA (or they might go to grad students, as at Yale). For that reason if she decides not to do a BM but wants to do music, she might consider schools that do NOT have a BM program. There are certainly exceptions (Bard, Oberlin) but it is something to be aware of.