<p>How do they work? What are the steps? What do you have to do? Can you get into a certain college just because they want you in their music program, even if your GPA and scores aren't that great?</p>
<p>It varies from school to school. Usually, you submit a music supplement and then are called down for an audition. You have to make sure they know you are very interested in the school. You can be “recruited” for music, but it’s pretty rare. Both of the schools I got scholarships to accepted me academically before the scholarships were even being awarded.</p>
<p>Are you planning to major in music? Or not?</p>
<p>@thumper1 was that directed at me or the OP?</p>
<p>Some scholarships are dependent on you majoring. One of mine was for majoring the other was dependent on minoring.</p>
<p>I have a 3.84 Unweighted GPA 2290 SAT and 34 ACT, and I plan on majoring in music.</p>
<p>what instrument do you play? it makes a huge difference. Most schools don’t give scholarships for common instruments</p>
<p>I play French Horn and Trumpet. </p>
<p>Most schools do not usually give scholarships for those, but you need to do the research. Some schools may really need those instruments and will more likely to give them out. There are also some scholarships based on merit alone and have nothing to do with what instrument you play (one of mine was).</p>
<p>Where did you go to school?</p>
<p>I’ll be attending University of Richmond in the fall. Their full-tuition scholarship was dependent on the minor and was merit alone. I also received full-tuition at case western, which was dependent on a major and was primarily due to the instrument I played (they give 8 total a year). I know Case is looking for trumpets and french horns…</p>
<p>To the OP! If you are planning to major in music, you will likely need to audition to be accepted as a music major. Any scholarships will be based on the strength of your audition. Most schools allow one to audition on ONE instrument only…so,which will that be?</p>
<p>You need to check each college,for,their audition requirements.</p>
<p>Pretty: academics…it all,depends on the school. For a conservatory, your audition will be the main criteria for being accepted. At some colleges, you must be accepted academically AND pass the audition.,at others, you must FIRST be accepted academically and then you audition for music. At others, you audition, and then must be accepted, but of you have a strong audition, the music department can lobby for your acceptance.</p>
<p>What schools are you considering?</p>
<p>There is a very active music majors section to this forum. You might want to post there.</p>
<p>I was thinking either USC, University of Washington, NYU, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. How long does it take for a music program to let you know if they accepted you or not?</p>
<p>It depends on the program as to when you are notified. Go to each college website, and look at their audition dates, and repertoire for audition requirements. The websites will also tell you when acceptances are sent out. </p>
<p>Are you instate for Cal or UW?</p>
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<p>regardless of your choice of major, for those stats Alabama would give you free tuition.</p>
<p>Bama does have an excellent School of Music.
<a href=“http://music.ua.edu/”>http://music.ua.edu/</a></p>
<p>ALSO, in addition to the free tuition, you would also likely get ANOTHER scholarship to stack on top for Music if your audition goes well. </p>
<p>It isnt unusual for a student with your stats, who majors in music, to end up with practically a total free ride.</p>
<p>Bama has lovely facilities in their School of Music including many, many practice rooms WITH WINDOWS (which I am told is a nice plus for those who dont want to feel that they’re practicing in some cell…lol). </p>
<p>I dont know if you also play piano, but Alabama is on track to soon be an All-Steinway School
<a href=“http://music.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/SteinwayBrochure2014.pdf”>http://music.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/SteinwayBrochure2014.pdf</a></p>
<p>Most music auditions are in January and February, so you would not know until then whether you had been accepted in the music program or been awarded a scholarship. My son auditioned at the beginning of February and was told at the audition that he was accepted (this is unusual) but did not receive his scholarship information for about a month.</p>
<p>Agreed. Most auditions are in January or February. BUT some schools do have an early audition date, with early notification. My kid auditioned to Duquesne (audition was the Friday before Thanksgiving). He got that acceptance the day before thanksgiving,mand received his music performance award a week later in the mail. He also auditioned at the Hartt School (first Saturday in December). He got that acceptance and aid within three weeks of the audition.</p>
<p>BUT in both cases, he had to have completed his application to the university as well.</p>
<p>And in both cases, students taking their audition after those early dates received their notification in April.</p>