How does admission work for prospective music major?

musicprnt
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:12:44 +0000

jazz-

It all depends on the program and how many people apply that determines pre screen usually, and obviously if the program is competitive it is likely they may have prescreen requirements, but it depends. Piano and strings, in part because of the huge influx of kids from Asia trying to get into music programs, have a lot of applicants, whereas with some exceptions (flute is one of them), there hasn’t been quite the huge numbers there, specifically with kids from Asia (that is changing as well). With Sax, prob depends on the program and type of music, on Jazz they prob see a lot more sax applicants then in classical music, if for the fact that sax is relatively rare in orchestra settings for classical music…as many have said, it depends. It doesn’t mean that getting into a program on sax or trumpet or trombone is easy, just means it is less likely a program will want a pre screen on sax then on violin or piano, for example. Different processes, both difficult and competitive:)