<p>echoing fiddlestix, one of the schools my son was accepted to he nearly chose. they encouraged him to consider transferring if it didn’t work out where he went and said that, if he made the expected freshman year progress, he would be sure to be welcome there for sophomore year. but…he had been accepted once. on the other hand, i have known musicians who decided to go to lac’s and then missed their music and were able to change course and transfer to music school. their playing level was quite high though. </p>
<p>having said all this, i’ve seen my son develop in a year’s time to such a degree that he would certainly be even more competitive today than he was a year ago if he decided to shoot higher. if you’re unhappy where you are, it is probably worth a shot.</p>