<p>Yeah, Oberlin was the one I was thinking of, actually. My teacher started at Oberlin and hated her teacher so much she started to look into BU, and then Oberlin offered her a full scholarship to stay. She left anyway. :p</p>
<p>well see...iono: i played concerts at shephard school at rice and jones hall in houston which were both digitally recorded. so the quality is quite good.</p>
<p>thatindiandude, it still can't match the quality of a sony recording studio is what i meant ;)</p>
<p>A few points:</p>
<p>1) It is difficult for JHU students who are not also enrolled at Peabody to get private lessons with the Peabody faculty. The OP will have to do a live audition in any case if that is his desire.</p>
<p>2) It is senseless to compare music schools as a whole. Peabody may be top three in some departments and not so hot in others. That could change radically from one year to the next as specific teachers move from one school to another. Even places like Curtis and Juilliard are not tops across the board. Finding the best teacher is more important than finding the best school.</p>
<p>3) With a bit of practice and not a lot of equipment, it is possible to edit digital audio so seamlessly that even professional audio engineers would be hard pressed to tell you where the splices are. Many top music schools now want videotape for this very reason.</p>
<p>4) Audition season at most conservatories is just getting started. Oberlin's EA round is over, but their RD round probably hasn't started yet. Most of my daughter's auditions last year (BU, NEC, Curtis, Peabody) were in February and March.</p>
<p>cujoe, true dat =) only those sony hacks probably messed up my computer with their vile DRM...never mind. I like sony.</p>
<p>lol i accidentally accepted windows media update for drm, so i went through the process of uninstalling and rolling back so i could get rid of it from the last media player thing</p>
<p>In reply to BassDad's point #4, I am just starting my auditions. I had a regional for Lawrence last week, the week after next is Ithaca, then the next week Indiana University, then the week after that Oberlin. Peabody's is in late February. I'm not even close to sort of almost done.</p>