Steinhardt Music Education Admissions

UncleGene6
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:49:56 +0000

Hi CC!

I am helping a friend who is currently a high school junior and interested in Steinhardt’s Music Education program.

We go to a highly competitive public school. Since she’s heavily involved in our school’s bands (She’s the drum major of marching band and participates in pit orchestra, concert band, and also pep band), her academics have been only average. She has a 3.7 GPA with some honors classes and no AP class. Currently she is working on the SAT and is aiming for a 2100. She is also self-studying AP Music Theory and AP Psychology in order to make up for her lack of college-level classes and will take the exams this May. However, she does have varied and meaningful extracurricular activities, such as management internship at a local youth orchestra and presidency of a school club that teaches about 200 local elementary school students music.

She is a flute player and her teachers think her skills are enough for her to go for the performance route, but she is more interested in music education. So would Steinhardt put a greater emphasis on audition and music education-related extracurriculars rather than academics? How could she prepare for admission to Steinhardt’s Music Education program?

Thank you in advance