Background info: My D is very good at vocal - completed RCM Level 10 in honors (Vocal and Piano). She is a sophomore and teaches vocal and piano to kids 8-11 in popular local music school. She also participates in one of the best choir / A cappella program as a Suprano. Since she is good, she gets some solo songs to sing the choir. She is selected to participate at Carnegie Hall through American Protege this winter. She specializes in Opera.
Question: She wanted to do a double major - most probably Vocal & Business or Vocal & Computer Science. She is very interested in the Columbia + Juilliard program. How difficult is it to get into this program? What are the expectations - GPA, ACT, +++. Appreciate your help. Also, what are the other top 10 schools in the US that has the best Vocal + program. We are from California.
University of Rochester/Eastman School might be an option. I know lots of students who double major, but I’m not sure about doing that in the two different schools. Something to check out though.
Harvard/NEC but Harvard doesn’t have business. Tufts/NEC ditto, no business. Maybe Carnegie Mellon? If you want a top program, there are many state universities that would fit the bill.
Would your daughter be interested in arts administration or perhaps music business or music industry?
Studying business and CS are quite different so what is the end goal: a financially stable career? How does vocal performance fit in there? Is this a question of a “back up plan”?
She could also do vocal performance as undergrad and then another area for grad, or vice-versa. She could study CS and continue lessons and extracurricular performance and then apply to grad schools.
CS and music are intensive majors with sequential curricula, so relatively inflexible. I don’t know much about business but assume that is true there as well. I would think she would want a double degree, not a double major.
I suggest you read the Double Degree Dilemma essay posted closer to the top of this music forum, about the different ways to study music and the different ways to combine areas of study.