<p>I am a senior looking for colleges to apply to
I have been playing the flute for seven years and piano for about ten, though my main instrument is my flute. I sing as well (top honors choir at school).
I love composing and I want to find a school where I can ideally major in commercial music composition (like writing popular styled songs) because my dream is to compose for film/ songwrite as well as still study my classical flute.
Any suggestions?
So far my top choice is Berklee b/c of their Film Scoring and Songwriting majors (and they have a winds department)
I'm also looking at Belmont, USC (Music Industry major, though I know this one is a reach since my gpa is a 3.4), U of Miami, Florida State possibly
I came across the Santa Fe University of Art and Desing (formerly College of Santa Fe I believe) can anyone tell me about this school as well? I saw that the admission rate is absurdly high, like 99%.</p>
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<p>I had referenced College of Santa Fe as a possibility a few years back in a number of threads, as a small program that seemed to offer some out of the box options for this type of pursuit.</p>
<p>The economic crumble last year took a toll on the school, which had been having some monetary difficulties prior to the financial collapse. There were some discussions about the school merging with another private not for profit college, or the college being absorbed and incorporated into the New Mexico state university system. Neither of those two options panned out. I believe it was last fall that the College of Santa Fe decided to close it’s doors and cease operations. I believe in March of 2010 the facilities reopened under the name you cite, as a for profit educational entity. The specific ownership and current mission statement should be somewhere in the “about” or “history” section of the current website.</p>
<p>My timeline may be slightly off, as I’m recalling from memory. In at least one, if not more of the previous thread references to the College of Santa Fe, I had inserted a link to a news article at the time detailing the demise of the institution. The link may now well be “dead”, as is often the case with older news articles. </p>
<p>Basically, it is not the same program that was previously recommended as a potential place to examine for a music pursuit. As a for profit institution, it would fall into the same category as Full Sail, Musician’s Institute, McNally Smith and others in terms of music offerings.</p>
<p>My advice for anyone examining these types of programs in addition to those offered at the typical four year degree granting institution is to perform extensive due diligence, and realize that you are comparing apples and oranges.</p>
<p>Thank you very much violadad for the information, it definately saved me a lot of time that I would have spent researching santa fe. Could you please further explain the pros and cons and contrasts betwween these “for profit” institutions and traditional schools of music?</p>
<p>OP, you might want to take a look at NYU’s Tisch School’s Clive Davis Department of Recording Arts – they touch on several aspects of what you’re looking for, and are housed in the Tisch school right by the filmmakers, so there’d be opportunities for cross-pollination. Some of the profs are actively working on major scores as well.
However, I note that this program is not part of NYU’s school of music, so I’m not sure about the capabililty to pursue performance level flute simultaneously. FYI, I believe NYU also has an MFA program in commercial music (but I could be dreaming…)</p>