Hello! My daughter is a junior and is trying to make a list of potential schools. Her voice teacher said o look for a smaller program where she would get more opportunities. Not sure where to begin with that. She has a beautiful soprano voice and wants more of an urban setting with a school that does at least one full stage opera a year. She has attended a few summer programs and the classical singer convention as well as lots of smaller school competitions and recitals.
She has a has a 4.0 and a great ACT score. She also wants to end up with a law degree so needs a good liberal arts. I think she is less serious about the music than the liberal arts, but hard to tell at this time and wants to do both. Any ideas?
You should post this on the music major’s forum. You’re sure to get a lot of helpful suggestions. http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/music-major
Thank you! I just joined and am trying to figure this all out.
Hi there @singingdaughter Just saw your post. I’m fairly new on this forum as well. Got on when my daughter had applied to colleges back in the Fall just to get some information from the insiders. The comment above to look at the music major forum is very inormative with TONS of information in everything music. My daughter is a senior in high school. She is also a soprano. She is 99% sure that she will be attending The Hartt School out of the University of Hartford this fall. She can’t speak from actual experience as she isn’t there yet lol, but we have been to the campus numerous times and love the school. The Hartt School is a very reputable Music school. We have heard nothing but great things about it. It is a small, close knit school. The teacher to student ratio is like 9:1. I hear the classrooms are somewhere around 6 to 12 kids. A lot of one on one attention. I think I remember being told that the students do like 3 performances per year. They have vocal performance, (for classical and jazz) as well as instrumental, dance, music theater and music technology and production.
They are also part of the University of Hartford which does have a pre-law program. My daughter is also interested in becoming a Spanish language interpreter so being part of a liberal arts college was important to her as well. I do hear, however, that the music programs have a pretty regirous curriculum so I’m not sure if she can double major or maybe major/minor. But I have heard its been done. It’s also a private college so the price tag isn’t cheap, but they are pretty generous with scholorships. We don’t really qualify for financial aid, but my daughter did receive a pretty decent grant which was a nice perk.
The college itself is in a really nice part of West Hartford. A little more rural then your daughter may like. But its minutes away from Hartford which is a pretty big city and New York and Boston are only a couple of hours away. I hear they do a lot of internships in NYC. It definitely seems to fit what your daughter is looking for so it may be worth checking out. Oh and if you go into The Hartt School website, they do livestream a lot of their performances so she can maybe catch a show.
Just a warning…there really is no need for a “pre- law program.” There are NO required courses for law school. NONE. While it helps for a college to have a pre-law adviser–someone who can help you figure out when to register to take the LSAT, what prep course to take (if any), and the law schools to which someone with your GPA and LSAT score should apply–it isn’t essential. So, in choosing among colleges, pay NO attention to whether it has a “pre-law” program or major. Some schools create one and convince students that majoring in pre-law will help with law school admissions. It doesn’t.
Thank you! I did put this school on the list of possibilities so it is great to get more information about it.
Be sure to check out Lawrence, in WI.
Closing this since the OP has posted in the correct forum. People wishing to give recommendations should use the link in post # 1