<p>First time poster in this thread…</p>
<p>I have a junior S and freshman D. I just recently went through this whole thread trying to gain wisdom in our college search. Up until a few months ago he was interested in civil engineering, but recently moved to sound/audio engineering, or record industry engineering, which we couldn’t be happier with. He has been doing sound and video at church for about 4 years now and has loved every minute of it. We had suggested sound engineering a year ago and he rejected it because of being around people drinking and doing drugs, which he doesn’t want to be around 24/7 - can’t blame him there. But recently he met a sound engineer that studied at the Berklee College of Music at a church function - he had come with a band from out of state - and that guy fired him up - showed him things on the sound board that he didn’t know it could do. It was nice to see. Now he is gung-ho on audio engineering. I had been searching for Bachelor’s programs and was coming up short - oh, so short - on schools. Recently found the motherlode of lists for schools and have him going through that now. I wish I had found this site earlier, it would have made this process less painful.</p>
<p>He’s a good kid, with decent grades. Lucky for us, this major doesn’t attract the 5.0 GPA, 2400 SAT scores kids. It gives me hope that he will have some chance at merit based aid, in addition to need-based.</p>
<p>Since he changed his mind about majors, very late in the game, he will be playing some catch-up. Next year instead of AP Spanish, he will be taking music theory, not sure if he can take AP music theory yet. He will also be taking a piano lab class, the class focuses on performance which he will really need, he may have to audition to get into some of these schools. He stopped getting lessons when his piano teacher retired, but he still played on occasion. He has perfect pitch and can play piano and now, guitar by ear. I still thought maybe he could do a vocal audition and have better luck. We’re still trying to ascertain if he should move that piano class to a choir one. He had a solo in a school play, years ago, and got many compliments on his voice/ability to hit notes perfectly. Berklee recommends that you have 4 years of music classes and he will not, but they focus on music playing/performance, not the engineering of it. But their sound engineering students have to audition as if they will do the school’s focus.</p>
<p>Anyway, my husband and I were perfectly suited to help him navigate the civil engineering studies, both of us having engineering degrees, but sound engineering, not so much. Anyone with any words of wisdom would be appreciated. Either here or PM. We do have one friend in the movie production field that has been helpful, but he is really video, not sound.</p>
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<p>You did the right thing…I went to school with someone like that and he ended up switching to business his sophomore year after being in engineering classes, miserable for a year and a half. He’s been a business professor for 20 or so years now. Best of Luck to your son on his business endeavors!</p>
HC was lovely, Worcester not so much. I didn’t have a car so really didn’t venture off the Hill much. I’d take a shuttle to Logan to go home for breaks.</p>