While it’s true that pre-college Juilliard is highly respected, that alone isn’t a sufficient EC qualification at top colleges where musical excellence can play a significant role in the admission chances along with other qualifications. There are many students who are friends of my son at Princeton, for example, with the pre-college Juilliard background, and they all have about a half dozen competition wins at least. It’s these concrete and proven evidences of excellence that are needed at colleges where hundreds and thousands of applicants with musical background are applying each year.
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