How Strong - Music EC

violadad
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:58:49 +0000

Again, realizing this thread is not active, I do want to add some additional info for those with this question and come across it later.

To gauge the potential of “how strong musically” one needs to be to be competitive at the Ivys and other top tier ACADEMIC institutions, I suggest that they scan the Master Acceptances threads that have been maintained in CC’s music major forum. Direct links to the masters are here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064490656-post5.html

If one scans the acceptances they will see that many admitted to the Ivys also have purely audition based admissions to the MOST selective conservatory/conservatory level programs in the country such as Juilliard, NEC, MSM, CIM, and a host of others, either for performance, composition or a music academic discipline such as theory or musicology.

Again, these are the students at the very top of their games, academically and musically.

This is not to say a student need necessarily want to pursue music professionally, but the competition includes a good number who actually do.

Any one part of their application may have tilted the academic admission at the likes of HYP et al, not necessarily the artistic talent.

But this is the musical level of the competition. It is the most accurate anecdotal evidence on this forum.

I offer it here as a reality check, not to denigrate anyone’s musical or other artistic or creative accomplishments. If you can compete on that level, and meet the academic, service and other factors comprising an HYP type admit, then yes, music may well be a factor.