<p>Thank you all for your feedback, I hope others can also share their thoughts. </p>
<p>gadad, I hope your daughter recovers her voice soon enough. If my D ends up at Harvard (ha!), I’ll be sure to get in touch with you for teacher references.</p>
<p>cartera45, thanks for mentioning Westminster choir college. If my D ends up at Princeton (ha!) she will be very interested in exploring the special program available to Princeton undergrads to get lessons and possibly other instruction at WCC. Actually the Princeton ‘certificate in music performance’ would be a great thing for her to pursue.</p>
<p>Skie, your point about a large-ish University is a very good one. We have ruled out some of the smaller, rural liberal arts colleges precisely for that reason. We are going to look into Northwestern and U Michigan, along with some others. </p>
<p>The plain truth is that at this point my D is simply not ready to make an irreversible commitment to a professional career in singing. Nor, for that matter, is she ready to make an irreversible commitment to any other profession. She doesn’t even know for sure what she wants to major in. Those are decisions she will make in college. What she does know is that wherever she goes, she will need a really good voice teacher who will be able to continue to nurture her voice and she will want opportunities to sing in high quality ensembles. </p>
<p>Eventually she may end up going to grad school for music, or she may end up going to law school. But if she does become a lawyer, she will be one with a darn good singing voice.</p>