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Musicians: Is Berklee College of Music (Boston) really all that?
Everybody: How valuable is it to attend a big-name "selective" college (Harvard, Northwestern) as opposed to a state school or an open(ish) admissions school like Columbia College? How much does it sway your opinion to know the open school is only OMG expensive while the selective school is OMFG ROTFLOL expensive?
Can a jazz piano player get almost as much mileage out of saying "I was accepted at Berklee but decided to attend Columbia?"
Answer fast: Larry will spend all day Friday at Columbia auditing classes, and Berklee needs a deposit by May 1.
Everybody: How valuable is it to attend a big-name "selective" college (Harvard, Northwestern) as opposed to a state school or an open(ish) admissions school like Columbia College? How much does it sway your opinion to know the open school is only OMG expensive while the selective school is OMFG ROTFLOL expensive?
Can a jazz piano player get almost as much mileage out of saying "I was accepted at Berklee but decided to attend Columbia?"
Answer fast: Larry will spend all day Friday at Columbia auditing classes, and Berklee needs a deposit by May 1.
