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Subject: RE: Jr. colleges was Good vocal programs for less?
Date sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:05:07 -0800
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> I am by no means discouraging anyone from attending community or junior
> colleges. I simply want to encourage folks to plan ahead.
>

This is a good point - always a good idea to look ahead to where you're
planning on transferring to! I transferred from a 2-year college into a 4
year university music program and had no problems transferring in at 3rd
year, but that's because the colleges in this region (Vancouver Canada) work
with the universities to ensure transferability. I'm glad I spent my first
two years at college, because the class sizes were small, and the theory,
ear training, and history classes were all taught by seasoned professors of
very high quality. In third year at university, I found that I had an
advantage over the students who had gone through 1st & 2nd year there
because their eartraining and some of their academic classes had been taught
by inexperienced graduate students - unfortunately a practice which is
becoming more & more common with funding cutbacks.

Jennifer