thanks all of you. Especially appreciated @jazzpianodad. I found some helpful articles elsewhere that I will post later, and these list the LAC with music and the conservatory/attached to schools. They confirm what is said here but I wish had seen them at the beginning and not been in a panic over the list. Now I am digging into this and figuring out where to visit.
Pretty sure my son is not going to be getting into Harvard,… so that’s that.
I am in contact with some of these schools and have heard back with specific and helpful responses, which I appreciate. My son will figure out more what he wants as we visit the schools. The immediate goal for me was to figure out a big enough list, and then research and figure out a smaller list of where to visit. So thanks for helping me make a lot of progress on that.
On Wesleyan, I thought Wesleyan was a lovely school. What I meant was this–we went to the music department. They told me that the jazz ensembles meet 1 time per week and anyone can enroll. I think they are known for world music. That isn’t going to be what my son wants. That is all I meant. Some of the other LAC with music will be better for us if we want to go that route. Not taking anything away from them, don’t want to disparage them. Yes they have the ensembles.
I am aware of challenges in terms of whether a student not in the conservatory/music school can be in ensembles. We’ll explore that and issues around availability of lessons, etc.
Oh, and I did hear back from Carnegie Mellon in great detail about how their program works, and that they don’t have jazz instruction==only piano performance in classical.
Thanks folks. I’ll be back later after we’ve done some visits and made some progress.