<p>FAU Florida Atlantic Univ. the commericial music degree and/or the wilkes honor college? i dont see a listing for FAU under colleges thought maybe someone on the FSU board would know something..THX!</p>
<p>FAU's honor college is in Jupiter, the main campus in Boca. The small honors college is really nice in many ways, esp for math/science majors and the new Scripts research institute located steps away. But it is a 30 drive to the main campus, and that makes it someone isolated. I don't know anything about the commercial music degree. </p>
<p>FAU's requirements for admission have been rising, with GPA's and SAT scores now helping it to rise up in ranking. It is still a bit of a regional communter campus, but the on campus housing has been growing by leaps and bounds, and they continue to build more housing. The student mix is getting less and less local. The cost of living for off campus housing is a bit high, but the surrounding Boca is certainly upscale, which is why. I think Frank Brogan has been a real plus as president. He really wants to see FAU improve and excel. I think FAU is definately a rank above FGCU, UNF and UWF, closing in on USF, FIU. It's medical school, a joint venture between UMiami and FAU is a plus. I know a bit more about sciences and health science in general, just not about music, sorry. My D graduated with someone who won one of 4-5 full merit scholarships to the Wilkes Honor College (tuition, room, board, books and maybe a stipend) and she is there now. I have not heard anything about her exprience as the was more of an acquaintace to D.</p>
<p>I know nothing about the commercial music program (it seems relatively new compared to the rest of the music department). I will agree with sunnyflorida that, like the school as a whole, its music program in general is gaining strength compared to some of the more regional universities (FIU, FGCU, UWF), and is on par (or very close to it, at least in terms of the vocal program) with the likes of UNF.</p>
<p>Hello ChoralFanatico!</p>
<p>I have contacted this site several times about an FAU section and no one has responded.</p>
<p>By way of introduction, I'm a current FAU grad student. Admittedly, I'm not in the commercial music program but what I can tell you is that FAU has its own record label (at the main campus in Boca Raton) known as Hoot/Wisdom Recordings and the commercial music program essentially operates through this label. Students in the program should be integrated into all the necessary phases of the production of an album, from recording to promotion of the final product. In fact, they just held a concert on the lawn called Hootfest '08 to promote their recent signees (an R&B group, an indie band, etc)</p>
<p>The Jupiter campus is nice, the professors are excellent and the Honors students are exceptional. To be quite honest, the Honors College in general is vastly underrated. Unfortunately, since Jupiter is a satellite campus it lacks a lot of the amenities of a traditional campus (i.e. a gym) and has to subsist on a small, closely-knit population of residential students to thrive. It can be great but it's not for everyone.</p>
<p>I would recommend the Boca campus, especially since you are thinking commercial music program.</p>
<p>Wish I knew more! Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for all responses. that is amazing that fau has its own record label and integrates that into the academics..</p>
<p>thanks so much for your responses since fau does not have a section...I have a son at FSU and younger son interested in FAU. We are from NYC area ..so i am bumping this thread-----Can anyone else tell me about FAU? Am esp. interested in the vibrancy of on campus life at main campus. is fau still considered to be a commuter school? I noticed the Owls are in a bowl game so that indicates the sports program is doing well.</p>
<p>I did receive a PM and after consulting their website seems that FAU is quite a small on campus population at 2500. Do not think that would be a good fit for my son. thank you for responding to my non fsu query</p>