Music Colleges

tragictravisty
Sun, 03 May 2009 00:43:34 +0000

Hi, my name is Travis, this is my first post here. So, some info about me - I’m almost done with my sophomore year in high school, and probably will have a gpa of about 3.3 unweighted, 3.8 weighted at the end of the year. I’m more passionate about music than anything else in life, so I’d like to study that in college. I’m an entirely self-taught guitarist and pianist, and have an extensive knowledge of theory, but there are some gaps in my knowledge and technique because of my being self-taught. I’m interested in a variety of music from blues to jazz to weird modern rock-ish stuff to classical.

Ideally, I’d like to major in theory or composition. The three schools which have caught my interest are UCONN, Carnegie Mellon, and Berklee. (I live in CT by the way). Berklee is a music college, while the others are traditional colleges with music departments.

First of all, am I leaving out any colleges? Out of those colleges, which seems like it would suit me most? Which do I have the best chance of getting into? Which gives the highest level of education? What should I do to help my chances?

Thanks.