<p>and about double majors. Is it really tough? i would consider that if i could handle heavy work loads.</p>
<p>Double-majoring without staying an extra year is not hard at Northwestern, thanks to the quarter system. This year, four out of five members on the team that won the College Fed Challenge are double-majoring in econ+something.</p>
<p>Just FYI, If you enroll at URochester (which is where you'd have to be to take the pre-med sequence) you would get a grad student instructor from Eastman for lessons. This is the case even if your major is a BA in Music at URochester. The Eastman performance faculty is for the BMus students, who are at Eastman.</p>
<p>You could apply to both the U of Rochester and the Eastman School. If you admitted to both, your music instructors would be Eastman faculty. The Eastman music performance and pre-med combination would probably not be doable in 4 years and would be difficult in 5 years but it is theoretically possible. The U of Rochester has its own music department where you could get lessons from non-Eastman U of R faculty and perhaps Eastman grad students (who are pretty good).</p>
<p>BTW, Eastman grads won quite a few grammys this year.</p>
<p>A minor correction to fiddlefrog's post. There are only a handful of grad students at Oberlin, in music ed or early music programs that are designed to combine a Bachelor's and Master's degree in five years. If you do not double major in the conservatory, you would most likely be studying with a third or fourth year undergrad there unless you are good enough to audition into one of the professor's studios.</p>
<p>i guess grad students are fine. i just don't want to quit violin. So do i still have to audition if i ask grad students to teach me?</p>
<p>In most cases, if there was an audition it would not be to determine whether you could take lessons but rather where and with whom those lessons should start. You may also have to pay extra beyond the normal tuition at some schools. Getting into a decent ensemble, however, probably would require an audition.</p>
<p>Sorry, BassDad, that's what I meant. A strange thing about music schools is that the undergrad-grad line sometimes seems fuzzy... here at BU, for example, far and away the three best string players are all third-year undergrads, this at a school with DMA and certificate programs.
If you're fine with grad students and want a decent ensemble experience, I'd highly recommend trying for Yale.</p>
<p>i just checked out Case Western, what kind of school is it? Does it have a good econ program? It looks pretty hard to get it</p>
<p>bump......</p>
<p>Hmmmm, tell me more about what you know about Blair School of Music. Thank you.</p>