<p>I want to go to a "good" school (I know the term is lossely defined and very personal) for music ed or psychology (looking into cognitive or forensic psychology)</p>
<p>Where I stand: (currently a junior)</p>
<p>AP classes:</p>
<p>9th grade :
Human geography (5)</p>
<p>10th grade:
chemistry (4)
world history (5)</p>
<p>11th grade:
english lang
french lang
US history
Physics B
Calculus AB
(no scores yet)</p>
<p>projected AP classes for 12th grade:
english lit
music theory
psychology
calc bc
US gvmt/economics
euro
possible biology</p>
<p>I work hard, will most likely pass (well) all my AP tests</p>
<p>Other classes:
all honors, straight As
orchestra classes</p>
<p>class rank: 3rd at highly competative school</p>
<p>extracurriculars:
youth orchestra (9 years)
volunteer teaching music at local elementary sch - started this program (7 yrs, 6 hours a week)
volunteer giving private music lessons to some kids who cant afford it (3 hours a week, 3 years)
plus about 400 hours of "miscellaneous" volunteer work from high school so far, much of it music-related, much of it hurricane disaseter-relief related, some of it with united way</p>
<p>French honor society, tri-M music honor society, NHS
Amnesty international, very active member no leadership position
odyssey of the mind -team captain/coach, made it to world finals 1 year in high school, states the other year</p>
<p>Best music schools depends upon whether you mean "music theory", "musical performance", "vocal performance" or "musical theatre".</p>
<p>Some good schools are the following, but like I said, they may be good at one or two of these, but not necessarily at all 4</p>
<p>Julliard--good for most all (the one exception)--but best for music theory in the country
Oberlin
Univ of Cincinnati
Indiana Univ at Bloomington
Boston Conservatory
Lawrence Univ
NYU
Pepperdine
Stanford
Brandeis</p>
<p>I'm not much of an expert on this, so you really should check out the music forums on this site.
UCLA
UCSC</p>
<p>I don't know which are the good psychology schools--sorry.</p>
<p>UCLA has the #2 ranked psychology graduate program in the country. It's music is also pretty good for a big state school. I don't really think many schools can specialize in both of those, much less for a person to do both of them. For music, I'd stick with Julliard or, to a lesser degree, NYU. For Psychology, I'd go for Stanford or UCLA.</p>
<p>You can only major in instrumental performance or composition at Juilliard and then only if you're God's gift to either. They don't offer theory or education degrees. I think you should look into USC, as all of the programs you mentioned are solid there. IU, UC, and BC are also great.</p>