Music Schools

<p>My son is a jr (high school) and interested in a double major of math and performance. Yet, I am having a hard time finding top schools that accomodate his passions. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>Columbia-Juilliard program comes to mind....but it's insane to get into that program.</p>

<p>The Loyola in New Orleans is supposed to be really good for music. </p>

<p>Chapman too, I believe.</p>

<p>University of Rochester, with either a degree from Eastman Conservatory, or from the College of Arts & Sciences (which doesn't require an audition).</p>

<p>Also, Johns Hopkins & Peabody Conservatory.</p>

<p>Does it have to be a music school, per se? There are many good schools with good music programs.</p>

<p>Oberlin, and perhaps Bard, come to mind.</p>

<p>Seconding teenage_cliche - definitely look at Oberlin.</p>

<p>cornell university</p>

<p>Florida State - but it'll be quite a lot of very serious work.</p>

<p>See: FSU</a> College of Music . Academic Programs and Undergraduate</a> Studies in Mathematics: Mathematics; Applied Mathematics; Actuarial Science; Biomedical Mathematics</p>

<p>Oberlin 3X</p>

<p>Indiana Univeristy</p>

<p>AFter eliminating these because of too much emphasis on Music as opposed to art ( d' major) :
Lawrence university in Appleton Wi (GO PACKERS)
DePauw Univ in Indiana
Oberlin in Ohio.</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins too...dunno if you can major in math and in music...but they have Peabody Conservatory!</p>

<p>Oberlin and Indiana really are two of the best! I can't believe I forgot about them.</p>

<p>Northwestern has a superb double degree program between the School of Music and either Weinberg College of Arts and Science or McCormick Engineering.</p>

<p>Arts and Science offers a straight Math major along with the highly touted MMSS program (Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences).</p>

<p>McCormick offers an Applied Math major.</p>

<p>All these programs are exceptionally strong. It's unusual for one school to offer as broad an array of math programming options. The music school is wonderful offering strong collaboration with Chicago arts venues and faculty with CSO pedigrees.</p>

<p>Also... look into Yale :)</p>

<p>Rice- but admission to the Shepherd School of Music is extremely competitive and double majoring is very difficult. It isn't easy at IU or Oberlin, either.
Performance is very demanding and fills up a lot of class hours with the theory and other music requirements.</p>

<p>I second Yale and add NYU.</p>

<p>Otherwise besides Columbia/Julliard, you can always try the Manhattan School of Music/Columbia since they're right across the street from each other.</p>

<p>There's often a lot of confusion when discussing Yale. Yale offers a BA degree in music but not in performance. Their grad performance programs are superb, though. </p>

<p>Oberlin, on the other hand, does offer an excellent undergrad double major 5 year program very similar to Northwestern's. They take only 30 or so yearly. Many more at the school pursue just a conservatory style music performance BA.</p>

<p>Michigan-Ann Arbor has a top 3 Music program and a top 10 Mathematics department and offers a great joint program between the schools of LSA and Music.</p>

<p>There are no performance undergrad degrees offered at Yale. The music study is in the academic disciplines of composition, theory and history. Undergrads can rarely take applied lessons with Yale SOM applied faculty, but may find some extremely talented world class musicians amongst the grad students. That being said, there are wonderful opportunities for performance at Yale at many levels.</p>

<p>I'd suggest you spend some time at the music major forum. A list of schools is here <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/6280-suggestions-colleges-music-majors.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/6280-suggestions-colleges-music-majors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Use the "search this forum" function while there and you will find numerous threads detailing programs, specific schools and various combined disciplines.</p>

<p>You mention performance. Instrumental or vocal? Level of ability is critical, as schools like Rice, Oberlin, Bard and others are all highly competitive auditioned based programs.</p>

<p>I'd also recommend reading the seminal post here <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Peabody has a wonderful set of overview articles here as well Peabody</a> Institute - Conservatory Admissions: The Articles</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>