Schools with good music performance programs?

jazzshreddermom
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:27:01 +0000

“USC allows a second bachelor’s but financial aid is iffy, and it is not set up as a double degree but as a sequential “second BA,” which is treated as a transfer.”

I’m confused by a few things mentioned above. First, financial aid at USC is considered great by many, lacking by many others. Like many other schools, USC meets 100% of USC-determined need using the FAFSA and CSS profile. Like many other schools, some people love their packages; others don’t. With financial aid, you never know until you try.

As for the double degree question, there are several double majors in my son’s graduating class at Thornton. Some of them took an extra year to complete requirements for both majors (many of Thornton’s instruments and programs do not allow for many electives, making it hard to complete two majors in four years). A double major may not be the same as having two separate degrees, but I’m not sure what difference that would make, particularly in any of the humanities such as anthropology. There are even more students who “minored” in their second subject. I don’t know what is meant by “treated as a transfer.”

Like others mentioned, U of Michigan, NYU Northwestern are other universities with conservatories. Others are U of Denver Lamont School of Music, U of Indiana (forget the name of the conservatory).

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