We are taking the grand tour of Southern California schools starting Feb 18.
My son is contemplating a double major in music and engineering/chem/math or physics. Or maybe just a minor in music.
We are visiting Cal Poly, Harvey Mudd, Cal Tech, USC and UCLA. We know people at Harvey Mudd and UCLA to 'ghost' for a day.
Anyone have experience with the music and science programs at any of these? I want him to avoid the UC Berkeley 'sift' style of school, where they take all 4.2 average kids (AP A's are a 5) and then only graduate one-third of them. What a waste of talent.
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UCLA may have the best of that combination. If it were just science I'd recommend Cal Tech. Don't know anything about their music program, though. Harvey Mudd has the advantage of being part of a consortium of the Claremont Colleges, which means some good choices too.
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Well the front runners seem to be Harvey Mudd and USC.He thought the music depts. at Pomona or Scripps might be weaker than he wanted. He can take a degree at Harvey Mudd and get a music degree from one of the others in the consortium. The USC music dept. is very impressive, although the organic chem. lab we toured was a little old.
He ruled Cal Tech out, they have nothing to offer in music for him. Cal Poly also had a weaker music dept than he wants.
UCLA limits how many units you can take before moving on, making it more difficult to double major.
We skipped most of the offical tours and just went to the chem, math and music depts. and looked for profs with office hours and classes to sit in.
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