This isn’t half bad, I agree that many kids/parents don’t know what you need, and this is a lot better than the misperceptions I still here out there, like “oh, you can play in the school orchestra, and then get serious in college” and so forth.
I also liked that they emphasized kids getting a basic grounding in theory and aural skills, it can only help (in most programs, though, that only helps with placement, it doesn’t factor into getting into the school). Theory and solfege are often some of the most dreaded things, and I think kids having exposure to it is a huge thing, it keeps the shock from happening:).
A couple of things in there that they claim as universals are not. Outside of vocal students, the claim that students will be expected to sing during an audition for music school in tune is not anywhere near universally true, it could be some schools require that (Obviously, leaving out voice students!), or maybe that is something they do with music ed students, but for instrumental music I asked my son, and he never heard of instrumental students in an audition being asked to sing. He said they ask you that during placement for solfege, but not on the audition (he thinks they may have meant the solfege placement).
Likewise, the keyboard requirement is not universal, most school require basic knowledge of the keyboard for harmonic analysis and so forth, but the idea that you have to be able to play piano is not universal, I remember when I was in high school music kids who wanted to go on scrambling, but again while schools require some literacy on the keyboard, for instrumental students I doubt they require the ability to play a piece on the piano on entrance (again, could that be more common with music ed?) and may simply require the student to take a class or two when they get in (so having knowledge of the piano is like theory and solfege, it is great to have knowledge coming in, but doesn’t seem to be universally required).
The other thing for serious instrumental students they don’t really talk about is having enough time to practice, that they should allocate up to several hours a day for practice, depending on the instrument.
Still, overall, I kind of like the fact that they show it is pretty rigorous to get into a music school and study music, and that is a big plus.