<p>Hey Everyone,
If you could please respond to this post - it would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>I have just finished my first semester of my freshmen year in college - I enjoy it a lot, and find the whole atmosphere amazing. However, I have always had an aspiration of doing law in the city. Since I am in the midwest currently, I will be transferring to several schools (NYU being the highest) to get out of the midwest finally.
I am currently declared both Music Performance and English - and am struggling with the analysis and aural part of music - although I thrive in my lessons, I can't seem to get anything to click in the latter area. Although I love music, and enjoy doing everything with it - I fear it will possibly effect my GPA if I continue doing it, and thus, hurt my chances at admissions into NYU.
As for English, I am doing extremely well (granted I haven't had many classes), I have 2 possible recs. from the english professors, and expect to keep a 4.0 in the subject area. </p>
<p>My question is this - Should I drop my passion of music and just continue with English - and likely get a 4.0? Or should I continue with music and struggle to maintain a GPA that the admissions of NYU will like, I want to continue music - but not as a sacrifice to my GPA. Since I have a music scholarship, I would still be in an ensemble to continue receiving it.</p>
<p>If you have a passion for music, you should definately continue. You do not need a 4.0 gpa to get into NYU; you might get accepted with a 3.5-3.7, so if you fall off a little bit, its not a big deal. Just write a good essay.</p>
<p>Are you allowed/able to continue the lessons without being a Music Performance major? Seems to me there are other avenues for pursuit of your music passion, if you don't plan to pursue it professionally, than majoring in it when you don't like one whole element of the major.</p>
<p>I was considering only doing lessons and a ensemble - but generally lessons are only granted for majors/minors - and that is my predicament, because I don't want to lose my passion...</p>
<p>nerf- you may want to repost or crosspost this on the Music Major forum, there is a vast amount of collective experience and wisdom there.</p>
<p>A bit more background may help as well... instrumental or vocal performance? Years of prior study, any previous background in theory or aural training? Are you currently at a public or private institution? Without necessarily naming names, what is the quality of the music school/department? How are your peers coping with these same courses/issues?</p>
<p>Hello Violadad,
Thanks for your suggestion - I have made another thread, I thought it useful in the transfer section since I am most likely transferring out.</p>
<p>For your questions - I am instrumental (trombone) performance, and have around 10 years of prior study. And I had never had any other training apart from the 12 years of piano I took.
I would say my peers are much better able to grasp the content of analysis, but most of them have had prior theory training (in high school). </p>
<p>The school at which I reside is a public selective school that focuses mainly on music education majors - and are very well known for that. In fact, I chose this school over IU Jacobs simply because I thought it would be less rigorous, and I would get a much better education. I was correct in my assumption, but I am having extreme difficulty mastering the content of it, when English comes so naturally to me - and I'd rather not do something to jeopardize my GPA when music is not something I want to do professionally. </p>
<p>Thank you very much for your reply! I appreciate it!</p>