<p>would i have a shot with having a great experience of violin playing?</p>
<p>assume i will do very well on the other parts as well.</p>
<p>audition or send in tapes...they'll help</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>rapport</p>
<p>Have you won any competitions? Played in Carnegie Hall?</p>
<p>Are you like 7 years old, planning ahead for college and trying to figure out what instrument to play? ;)</p>
<p>If yes, I love violin music! Better than everything else!</p>
<p>if you send an audition tape and the violin teachers listen to it and highly reccommend you, it'll prolly help.
then again, they have a lot of applicants who play violin and I think they have more violinists auditioning for private lessons once they get in than they have space to teach.(that's why you have to audition in the first place...) but it's worth a shot to send in an audition tape! I don't think it can hurt you</p>
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<p>I am not like 7 years old but 17 years old</p>
<p>and i began learning violin since i was 4.5 years old</p>
<p>The amount of time you've been playing won't really matter much. What will matter is what you've done with it in that time. If you'd made all-state or done anything more impressive with the violin, make sure you include that on your application.</p>
<p>Violin won't help at all regardless of how many years you've played UNLESS you won international awards or played at Carnegie Hall (not renting the place to play). </p>
<p>There is a surfeit of violin players around, so standing out is difficult.</p>
<p>Heey...join the too-much violin club. We've got shirts and gothic face paint.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but all those years you spent playing violin won't help you as much as you'd like unless you're really good. Are you a member of a local youth orchestra? Are you principal chair? If so, then that's a bit if leverage on your application.</p>
<p>There are just too many experienced violin players out there for just the years to help you stand out.</p>
<p>ok....thank you guys</p>
<p>There are two ways that something can help you. </p>
<p>1) Hooks: If you are really really good on the violin and the department is impressed that is about the same as being a recruited athlete. So for that to happen you probably need some big-time awards or at least to have the ability to win big-time awards. </p>
<p>2) ECs you are passionate about: If you love violin and are very good but not one of the top in the nation/world, that still helps. It helps for you to do something you love and be good at it, so in that sense being really good on the violin could still help.</p>
<p>Marlgirl, I have a question about "2)" </p>
<p>Is it still possible for a music EC to have a significant impact on admissions even if one has not won many competition/awards...etc? Is it possible to convey one's passion for music in other ways? (such as perfoming for patients in the hospital, starting musical groups...etc things like that)</p>
<p>yahooo, if you bring a fresh perspective in showing passion for music that could potentially help quite a bit. But make sure you really mean the things you do and aren't just trying to be original. If these activities really mean something to you, they may help you stand out</p>
<p>thank all of you again</p>
<p>I agree. Prizes for violin playing will help, but if you care a lot, genuinely care a lot, and you make that show somehow, it'll still count immensely in your favor. People have written successful essays about how they were bad at a sport but still loved it.</p>
<p>What if you are an average violin player (RCM grade 10), with good EC's, good grades, and good essays, would it then be better to NOT send an audio tape or not? Because if the performance is not exceptional, it'd just be a waste of time for admission officers.</p>
<p>ha
thanks for bumping it up again.</p>
<p>btw, what is RCM?</p>
<p>hey, sorry to be butting in in the middle of this post, but i was wondering if sending an audition tape/CD can ever hurt? say, you HAVE won lots of awards and have concertmaster/principal positions in an orchestra, but the recording isn't that impressive to the music department. in this case, would it be better to refrain from sending a tape?</p>
<p>well, anyone else??</p>
<p>plz!</p>