How well does musical experience play on admissions?

jmarsh2006
Wed, 11 May 2005 19:11:11 +0000

Lakers, I’m not sure, my state (New York) as has different levels of honors bands. at least in my area there’s All-county, Area all State (comprising of students from roughly Binghamton to Syracuse) and Conference all state (the whole state).

All County’s not that hard to get into, Area All State has three groups: you need at least 92/100 at solo festival for concert band, 96/100 for symphonic band, and I’m not postive but probably a perfect score for orchestra (on trumpet anyway).

I’m in youth symphony too and I take lessons and do some paid performances in the area, I guess I was overreacing before, but I really want to go to Cornell, and I feel like my ec’s are never sufficent for getting into a top school. It seems like everyone on this site has 'national recognition."

If i see one more person say “I’m nationally recognized in violn/debate/soccer/karate”, I’m going to lose my mind. I come from a small, not very competitive high school where less than half of graduates go to four year schools, and I have no idea how anyone even goes about having an EC on the national level, and I’m so tired of hearing people brag about it and be like “Gee, wll I have any chance at all at Harvard/Yale/whatever, here are my ecs, I’m nationally recognized in all of them, and I aced the SATs to boot, have I sufficiently bragged enough and made all the readers of this thread feel like scum?” This doesn’t apply to any of you, in fact you’re all very nice, so no one take any of this personally, i’m just in a self pitying mood today, I’m sure it’ll pass.

okay, I’m taking a break from CC for a few days, it’s probably the healthiest thing to do…