Swarthmore- music plus something else

interesteddad
Wed, 02 May 2007 17:39:12 +0000

Some combination of major/major or major/minor in music and something else would be no problem at all. The only exception might be a double major with Engineering, just because there are so many required courses for Engineering…although an Engineering major/Music minor wouldn’t be unusual. Your scenario kind of typifies why someone would choose Swarthmore for music.

The Music department is small, but the students really like the department. Nice facilities, Steinways in the practice rooms, private lessons that the college pays for. Very personalized department. Curtis Conservatory is 20 minutes away in Phila, so there are resources for teachers beyond those on staff. In fact, one of the staff working with the college orchestra is a Swarthmore grad in the third year of the conducting program at Curtis.

The best thing to do would be to contact the head of the music department Gerald Levinson directly…by e-mail or, better yet, go visit. He’ll shoot straight with you whether the music department would be right for you or not. If you apply, you need to contact the Music depart. anyway because you have to submit a recording for evaluation in order to have music count as a “tip” on your application.