<p>Grabrams, you need to repost your question here [Music</a> Major - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/]Music”>Music Major - College Confidential Forums) where you will have the benefit of the knowledge and experience of those who can help you evaluate strong music programs within a solid academic environment.</p>
<p>For starters, read this <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html</a> as an overview. While geared to performance, it covers virtually everything you’ll need to know about music admissions.</p>
<p>There’s plenty of past threads under “music ed”, “music education” as well as titled threads on Oberlin, Lawrence, UMich and Northwestern. Spend some time looking around, and if you need help, I’d be happy to pull up a number of links.</p>
<p>Another resource is the Master list threads <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/817953-master-list-acceptances-fall-2010-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/817953-master-list-acceptances-fall-2010-a.html</a>. There’s a link near the top in each year’s to the prior year. You can scan for schools and programs by username and discipline, and search posts by username for posts that might be relevant.</p>
<p>The Oberlin program [Degrees</a> and Majors - Oberlin College](<a href=“http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/degrees-and-majors/]Degrees”>http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/degrees-and-majors/) through the conservatory is a BM in either performance or composition and culminates in an MM.</p>