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Music Business

Music Business Student

Class of 2024

97%

Accepted to top-5 choice school

82%

Accepted to top-3 choice school

9+ years

Music College
Consulting

How We Help Music Business Students

At Music School Central, our services are designed to help musicians get into the best colleges for their future. These include the following:

Personalized List of Schools

We provide personalized guidance and support for music business students navigating the college application process.

This includes guidance with crafting compelling essays & resume that showcase your musical journey, achievements, and aspirations, ultimately maximizing your chances of admission to top music schools.

Audition & Portfolio Evaluation

You will receive a tailored assessment of your musicianship, evaluated across various criteria to provide constructive feedback and guidance for not only artistic growth, but also your future college auditions.

Complete Application Support

We provide personalized guidance and support for music business students navigating the college application process.

This includes guidance with crafting compelling essays & resume that showcase your musical journey, achievements, and aspirations, ultimately maximizing your chances of admission to top music schools.

Interview Preparation

You will receive tailored coaching and mock interview sessions to help you prepare confidently for college admissions interviews.

With this consulting, you can ensure that you will be able to articulate your musical passions, experiences, and future goals with poise and clarity.

1-on-1 Guidance

We offer individualized, 1-on-1 guidance and frequent meetings to navigate every aspect of the application process, from selecting schools to crafting compelling applications, ensuring each student’s unique musical journey is effectively communicated to admissions committees

Choosing the Best College for Music Business

For a music business student seeking to further their education and career prospets, we consider several key factors when for assembling your list of music schools:

1. Faculty expertise & reputation

We help you Look for music schools with renowned faculty members who are active performers themselves as members of the music industry.

A faculty with diverse expertise can offer valuable perspectives and 1-on-1 mentorship in the music business.

2. Internship opportunities

Internship & work opportunities are central for music business students.

We help you seek out schools that offer co-op (paid work) opportunities with major music companies, internships, and other experiences, such as on-campus record labels.

Music business experience is crucial for eventually getting a position in the professional industry.

3. Community & networking

The sense of community and networking opportunities within a music school can profoundly impact your educational experience and future career prospects.

Finding schools with active music business groups focusing on A&R, music publishing, and a student record label can help get excellent pre-professional experience in the business.

4. University Vs. Conservatory

Choosing between a college and a conservatory can depend on your career goals and educational preferences.

Conservatories offer intense training with a singular focus on music, while colleges provide a broader academic experience with opportunities to explore other disciplines alongside music.

Considering your priorities in performance training, academic balance, and overall environment to make the best decision for your musical journey, we help you determine whether conservatories, universities, or a mix of both is best for you.

5. Career preparation

When considering colleges, music business students should prioritize programs that ofer comprehensive career preparation, including job opportunities , networking, and entrepreneurial skills development.

Look for schools with strong connections to the professional music industry, career counseling services, and other opportunities to help launch your career successfully.

Frequently asked questions

We work with three kinds of students.

1. Musicians who wish to major in music.
2. Musicians who wish to major in music and an outside major.
3. Musicians who wish to major in an academic subject, but want to use their musical background & credentials to help them get accepted into a great college.

As long as you are a musician with at least a few years of experience, we can help you.

“>We help students with every single part of the college application process.

On the music side, we guide students with auditions, interviews, portfolios, pre-screenings, and more. On the traditional application side, we guide students through essays, the resume, the common application, etc.

“>We surveyed every student & family we worked with in the class of 2024 after they received all of their offers, asking them whether they were accepted to a top-1, top-2, top-3, top-4, top-5, or not a top-5 choice school.

The survey was not mandatory for students who applied to only 1 school and were accepted, such as early decision students. They were automatically counted as a “top-1” choice.

Students who chose to opt for a gap year instead of finishing the application & audition process were excluded from the survey.

Anyone who did not respond to the survey was counted as “not accepted into a top-5 choice school,” unless they wrote to us about being accepted into a top choice school in a separate message.

Overall, we are very proud of the success of our students in the class of 2024, with over 95% of them getting accepted into a top-5 choice school!

Yes – he studied music at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.

The great majority of our students are offered merit scholarships when they receive their admissions offers. When schools are evaluating a candidate for scholarships, they look at the factors we provide guidance on – auditions, essays, portfolios, resume, etc. Also, some schools are simply more generous than others when offering merit scholarship, and we can help you figure out which ones are most likely to award scholarship based on our experience. Finally, we can provide guidance on negotiating for scholarships at the end of the admission process, once all of your acceptance letters and initial scholarship offers are released. While we 100% cannot guarantee scholarships, we can report that the majority of our students in the classes of 2023 and 2024 were offered multiple 5-fgure per year merit scholarships.

At this time, we are only offering our full-service package, as we believe that results in the best admissions & scholarship outcomes for students. We may, in the future, ofer a la carte services.

Absolutely not. We’ve had students apply to 1 school (usually early decision situations), and we had a student once apply to 32 schools. The right number, for most people, is 8-12 schools.

As long as the essays are specifcally for colleges, we do not limit the number of essays we will review and provide guidance on.

We do work with master’s degree-seeking musicians. While the majority of our clients are high schoolers and transfer students, we very much enjoy working with older students. We currently do not work with students applying to doctoral degrees.