<p>Hi guys,
I've been quite active on this forum lately and I have a last concern that I want to share.
So, now it came down to NYU vs. FSU</p>
<p>NYU offered my 25k so about half of the whole cost of attendence
FSU is still full ride - including room/board meal etc just everything</p>
<p>can someone tell me about the NYU for the piano dept? </p>
<p>I know that both of them are university with a strong music dept but and suggestion?</p>
<p>I don’t know about piano in particular, but NYU is a great school, and $25K is a generous scholarship indeed for NYU! Congratulations!</p>
<p>Well, my words of advice: if you can do your undergrad in a school with an excellent music department for free, do it. </p>
<p>You will have the flexibility after you graduate to take the job you want, not the job you have to take because you have to pay the student loan. It’s so easy to get caught up in making a living as opposed to creating art.</p>
<p>FSU is an excellent choice for a student who needs to spend all that time in the practice room perfecting his “chops”, and there are excellent collaborative musicians at FSU. NYU is not renown as a music school, and there will be much better colleagues at FSU. Save all that $$ you are not spending to attend the grad school of your dreams. Good luck.</p>
<p>Just to play devil’s advocate-- the location and environments of these schools are very different. I don’t know anything about the piano departments at either school, but you will have vastly different experiences, I would think, in Greenwich Village versus Tallahassee. Are you a person who thrives in an urban environment, or do you prefer a small-town, big university experience? The NYU scholarship sounds generous to me. As a parent I would consider taking out a Plus Loan to send my kid to a school where I think they would be more likely to develop and sustain the kinds of connections they will need in the future. But it’s an intensely personal decision for your family.</p>
<p>As I recall, you were accepted to MSM for music, NYU for business, and FSU for both music and business?</p>
<p>My vote is for FSU. Beyond the financial benefits, studying at a local school with potential internships for business and performance opportunities for music might serve you better than competing for attention at a large urban school.</p>
<p>Oops, I wrote this (see below) before reading the post by wel that said you were accepted to NYU for business, not piano. If that is true, you really should be asking about this on the subforum for business majors rather than music majors, because the issues related to cost and ability to repay a loan might be different for a business major than a music major. Also, there is the question of what the business major is like at NYU and FSU and whether NYU is worth paying over $100,000 over four years when you would be getting a business major AND piano major at FSU at no cost. </p>
<p>My big question is how committed are you to majoring in piano performance? </p>
<p>Anyway, following is what I wrote BEFORE I knew that NYU was for business major. </p>
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<p>I do not know anything about NYU’s piano program, but I wondered if you have met and have good rapport with the professor with whom you would be having your lessons? Also, the situation would seem different depending on whether your family can easily pay the $100,000-plus for four years at NYU or whether there would be a significant loan burden on them and/or you. Since you live in Florida (I think), there also would be significant transportation costs over the time you were there. </p>
<p>Given the number of music programs/conservatories in the vicinity of NYC and the large number of undergraduate piano performance majors studying in all those places and the fact that piano is largely a solo instrument, I think the issue of connections you could get while at NYU may be less significant than where you can develop the most as a pianist/musician and what you and your family can comfortably afford.</p>
<p>nope, i actually got into nyu for CAS but i can still study with a piano faculty for a year and transfer after a year</p>
<p>JP - My older D is about to graduate from CAS. It has been an amazing experience for her. NYU is what you make it. It may be easy to get lost, but if you are motivated, the professors are truly there for you. I just went the Dean’s undergrad research conference. Once of the presentations was from a student that took Mozart pieces and translated them to guitar tab to make classical music accessible to the general public. The student body is motivated and intelligent. Would it be nice if she didn’t have student loans to pay back? Yes. But right now, she’s headed to grad program of her dreams (while turning down Cambridge). I’m sorry - I know I didn’t help, because common sense says to make the wise financial decision.</p>