<p>I have a choice between two high schools. My current high school or a school where I can go to college and high school at the same time. The problem is for the high school/college program while doing a math placement test I scored low. Which means I would have to go back and take Pre Algebra-Algebra-Intermediate Algebra- College Algebra. This school has a music engineering and producing program. I want to be a musician. My dream college would be NYU Tisch. Would taking these classes look bad on my transcript? I posted this in other forum sections</p>
<p>If you are going to try for NYU Tisch in music performance (you don’t say, but I am assuming so) most of getting in there will be in the ability to play your chosen instrument. Or are you planning to go into audio engineering or something like that at NYU, which would probably be different then performance in terms of academic requirements I would guess…</p>
<p>That said, I think in one sense it wouldn’t matter which school you went to, it would be more about how well you do in either school, grades and test scores, if it is an academic admit or if academics play a role there.</p>
<p>I think you need to be a bit more specific about what you are planning to go into, to answer the questions properly. Do you plan to go into performance or music ed? Do you plan to major strictly in music, or perhaps dual major? What instrument are you playing, it can be much different depending on what instrument you play.</p>
<p>One thought I will add is that I have seen high schools that combine high school with 2 years of college and know at least one person going to such a school, and it is not easy. Those schools basically accelerate the process, so that by the start of junior year you are taking college level courses, in effect finishing high school by end of Sophomore year. It is quite a load, and they move fast, and the person I know is really, really working their tail off to keep up. If you are seriously thinking of going into music performance, I would be worried about having the time during high school to attend such a program and find the time needed to practice and work on repertoire for your chosen instrument, I would be really leery of that, based on what I have seen.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. I plan on majoring in music performance. I sing, and I’m learning the guitar. I will also be picking up the piano soon. I plan on doing vocals in the music performance major.</p>
<p>I am not an expert on voice, one of the other voice people on here can probably talk more about that,about the requirements and such. I know that voice students cannot practice as long as instrumental students (and even in instrumental music it varies, violinists can go up to 5 or 6 hours in some cases, a wind instrument less then that…), but I would still be concerned about being a serious voice student and doing a high school/college program, that the time load of such a program might be hard doing voice. Again, probably someone who knows the rigors of student voice training can give you a good answer on that.</p>
<p>Lotus, I am unclear re: Tisch – Tisch has the producer/performer program (Clive Davis Recording dept) and music theatre, but I thought bachelor of music degrees were Steinhardt.</p>
<p>So my advice only applies to Clive Davis department, if that’s what you mean. If you were applying to that program, then the high school that offers the music production and engineering will benefit your application, since that is core material in the performer-producer program. You will have good direction, technical experience, and equipment which which to create a solid portfolio selection. (Clive Davis is entirely by portfolio.)</p>
<p>If you intend to also pursue production in any sense, that math will only help you. Eg. at UMich, if you want to go into music engineering they have high minimums for ACT/SAT math section scores.
Taking or retaking math, in that case, would be advisable.</p>
<p>That said, I don’t know enough about the program you are considering to actually be able to say whether there may be drawbacks. </p>
<p>If you’re pursuing the school of music at NYU in a performance degree audition, you would want to be at the HS with the best performance programs, opportunities, etc. to my mind.
Just my thoughts.
Good luck.</p>