School list for violin performance

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How to determine Safety/Target/Reach for a Music Major?

My son is a junior in high school, we’ve been working on our college list for a few years now, adding and removing as we learns more of what exactly he wants. He specifically wants to go into Jazz, not sure if it’s more Performance or Studies. Obviously a school like Juilliard would be a total Reach school but just not sure how to figure this out. I recommended that he talk to his jazz, guitar, and trumpet instructors to see what they all said but he thinks they may just tell them what he wants to hear since they like him. Our list varies from Juilliard, MSM, Purchase, Eastman, Berklee, FSU, UM Frost, FIU, USC Thornton, NYU, Peabody, Hartford, Rutgers, Loyola New Orleans, Northwestern just to name some of the 20+ on his list currently. I’d love to narrow this list down bit more before the end of this school year. I want to make sure we are keeping a good number of Safety and Target schools on our list though. So for those that have done this already or are doing this now, how did yo…