Hi, I see your name come up as an expert in all the areas I’m researching! If you have your lists already at hand, I would love to see these as well. My son is a senior strings player at LaGuardia HS in NYC, honing in on a handful of composition programs where he would not be tethered to a primary instrument (he’s ready to move on from classical cello which he’s been doing as a major in school since 6th grade! much more excited about jazz and contemporary guitar at this point) - and where he can take as much music theory/practice as his heart desires, without being limited to just classical. He doesn’t have much exposure to jazz at this point so he won’t be a great candidate for a jazz program of any kind, including a jazz comp program, but he’d love to have access to more of that in college. He has some exposure to DAWs and electroacoustic composition, but is not primarily interested in experimental sound creation. And neither do his moms want him to go to college to focus on sound engineering, which we feel he can pick up as needed as a “day job” kind of practice. He’s excited about BARD and SUNY Purchase, Oberlin less bc he doesn’t feel like either the regular Conp program or Timara are quite the right fit for him (not sure I trust his instinct here) and we have yet to learn much about Northwestern but it seems promising. He wasn’t excited about CMU - although I was! - and we’re trying to steer him clear of Berklee. I’d love to know if I’m missing some other obvious choices! (he leans towards staying in the north east, and won’t consider Miami bc of Florida politics in general…doesn’t want to go to CA for now; Penn or Columbia probably out of reach or long shots). Thanks!!