Big schools with a marching band program?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a junior in high school and starting my search for potential schools.</p>

<p>My favorite subjects are history, civil rights studies, and English. My GPA is about a 3.8.</p>

<p>I'm very active in my school's music program. I'm in the marching band, concert band, and percussion ensemble (we're off to World Championships this year, woohoo!). Although I don't want to major in music studies, I'd like to participate in marching band in college. I play the flute and am pretty decent. I realize this is section is extremely competative, but I've been pushing myself to be better and I'm improving.</p>

<p>I'm looking for a large school in a suburban or urban setting.</p>

<p>Any suggestions of where to look for colleges?</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>Most of the major state schools have marching bands that are open to any student who can pass the audition. What you need to look for are schools that march with flutes. Our state university only marches brass and persussion and maybe sax. But they don't march flutes or piccolos. So look at the Div. I football program schools at interest you and do some research on the instrumentation they use.</p>

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<p>I don't know anything about it, but I know someone who was looking at marching bands as part of her school selection. It was a priority. She chose University of Delaware, so you might want to check out this school.</p>

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<p>For marching band, look for:
-Almost any state university. Penn State is especially noteworthy. UMich.
-LAC's are pretty much out if you want the traditional MB experience. If you're willing to try something completely different there are a few with scatter bands, but still not many.
-The Ivy League also tends toward scatter bands.</p>

<p>Can you narrow this down at all? Region?</p>

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<p>Hmm...Preferably on the west coast and bigger cities.</p>

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<p>To give you a more of an idea of what I'm looking for, I've looked at the websites for UMass Amherst, UCLA, and USC.</p>

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<p>Florida State University</p>

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<p>Cornell has a marching band--it is both an Ivy and a state university, so you sort of get the best of both worlds.</p>

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<p>UVA recently converted from a scatter band to a formal marching band and has been investing heavily in it thanks to alumni donations.</p>

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<p>Yes, any major state university program with a football team probably has a marching band. Also, consider schools such as University of Miami too.</p>

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<p>Try a Big 10 University; all 11 schools have pretty good bands.</p>

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<p>UCB, UCLA, USC</p>

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<p>Penn State</p>

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<p>My niece is in the Oklahoma marching band and loves it. She also has a band scholarship of some sort. She's an enginneering major, not music.</p>