<p>hey. I am not a violin player nor a college student. I am a high school student (to be senior) who will be auditioning for colleges in the winter. But i can definately answer some of your questions, especially because i decided n majoring in music pretty late...last summer (in to junior year). However i have been playing the piano quite a while. Overall, I think you should talk to your teacher about considering majoring in music. </p>
<p>You don't have to major in violin performance. Instead you have many options. You can major in music education, composition, music industry, music history, music theory, and etc. Whether you major in performance, education, composition or any of the other majors...you need to reach a certain level of playing your primary instrument, in your case the violin. In fact when you audition for a college or conservatory as a non-performance major (music education, composition, etc) ...they could require a recording and live audition having you play 3 or 4 songs. </p>
<p>SAT scores and GPA...honestly, i emailed and did a lot of research about this. If your gpa is like under 3.0...chances to be admmited into university are slim. For example when i went to a ucla music department information meeting, they said unless a student is amazing, a 3.3 gpa student will not be accepted. But keep in mind UCLA is really competetive in academics. I would say try to maintain a gpa higher than 3.0 and SAT score of 1750, 1800, or higher. If you want to go to a conservatory, they are usually more leniant on grades and sat scores, infact some don't even require sats! The number one thing is your audition. the 10-15 minutes you play for the professors is crucial. Therefore...unless your grades are not that great, you should just practice and get ready for the audition. Unfortuantely i am personally having a hard time deciding my senior year classes...since that's when everyone is cramming practices like crazy before january and february hits (audition season). </p>
<p>Careers: you can be a private teacher, teacher at secondary school, professor, composer, producer, music therapist, conductor, film music, and more. It is very helpful, if not required by college, to learn piano, if you plan on majoring in education or composition...and i'm sure other majors as well.</p>
<p>Again, ask your teacher about majoring in music. Also if you don't feel like you are ready...you can always go to a less known or state/community college for undergrad and take time to practice even more then...and transfer or wait till graduate school. Graduate school is considered more important than undergrad. But it all depends how far you want to take you musical career. Oh yea...last thing, you should try to be active in your school's orchestra, or community/city orchestra.</p>
<p>I hope i helped a lot.</p>