<p>Tom, I linked your thread in the admission forum <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/781859-can-i-get-into-nyus-steinhardt-major-musiceducation.html#post1063264726[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/781859-can-i-get-into-nyus-steinhardt-major-musiceducation.html#post1063264726</a> for background.</p>
<p>Expanding on post #6, do you want to teach music in a public k-12 setting? That’s what a music ed degree does. </p>
<p>Read through the thread here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html</a> and the links here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/780119-music-education.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/780119-music-education.html</a></p>
<p>You might want to look into BA programs in music or a dual major within music combining some more aspects of your areas of interest. Without the benefit of private instruction, you may not have the chops to be competitive within the audition pools at MSM or Berklee (that line was absent in your other thread). Admission at both is audition based, not academically driven there. I gave you Steinhardt info in your other thread (that’s a tough pool to as is UChicago), and the program is highly competivtive. Contact the poster Cosmos who is a senior (double bassist) there, and she can detail the program and her experiences. </p>
<p>You might want to look into some of the double major/dual programs, or options at liberal arts colleges with good music programs and explore some of the composition threads here.</p>
<p>Hopefully others will add to this. I’d be happy to point out additional threads and background info here.</p>