Suggest matches and reaches for an aspiring Occupational Therapist [3.7 GPA (3.6 without music), <$40k, FA possible only without non-custodial parent]

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@thumper1

Not sure how easy to combine these two interests your student has.

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Not sure how easy that would be to combine with music as a second major.

IOW what I’m saying is make sure your son can actually in reality DO what he wants to do at each of these colleges. It’s not easy to double major with these two fields.

He doesn’t expect to be able to double major, but he does want to be in a place where he has access to other musicians, and can do private lessons, or ensembles and maybe a music therapy or music ed elective or two.

The one exception seems to be Sacred Heart which has a 4+2 option where you can pick any major in the school for the undergrad. So, that’s intriguing.

@thumper1

But admission to the OT program is a bit harder, and I thought was a masters level program…actually I thought it was a five year program.

All of these programs are MSOT programs, or a few have an OTD option as well. You start off in a Bachelor’s program, and then they shave a year off the total by allowing you to count your first year of graduate school for the last year of your B.A. or B.S… They range between 4.5 and 6 years total.