<p>fhimas: Just realized that you’ve posted on over 150 threads, and only a very small percentage of those posts has been here in the Music Major area. From your other posts, it seems that you’re most intent on getting into an Ivy League school, which is a great goal.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to put your motives in question, but there are two things that you need to consider from the music perspective:</p>
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<li><p>At the undergraduate level, the Ivies aren’t your outstanding music schools.</p></li>
<li><p>Music isn’t a great hook at an Ivy. Nonetheless it is a hook, but with many qualified applicants for each position, hooks need to be truly unique. </p></li>
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<p>So it’s decision time for you. Is getting into an Ivy your main goal? If so how can you best achieve that? Is music composition your main goal? If so, how can you feed that ambition? If these two goals can be merged, how do you do it?</p>