piano and community service

momof3sons
Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:20:40 +0000

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OK, so you are looking for something to impress admissions. I will expand on my post above and although my sons did not do it to “impress admissions,” you can probably see how it gave the admissions officers a sense of their passion. Besides playing in the assisted living/nursing home on Sundays all throughout high school, they also played in regional piano competitions and played their brass instruments as the principal trumpet and trombone player in the high school jazz band. This was a high level band which played at some world famous jazz venues.
My trumpet playing son also played in a pit orchestra for a show where he was the only amateur playing in the pit. These activities certainly weren’t the reason they got into great schools, but showed a deep devotion to music, a depth and breadth that many schools want to see.