Charlie Vernon and some other well known players do not have a music degree. Study with best player/teacher you can on a regular basis and practice your b***s off.
I had dreams of going to expensive schools. I also wanted to work overseas. Some countries pay foreigners a lot of money. Indonesia, for example, pays a lot of money for anyone with a master's degree to teach any subject they need taught, to work as a living English language laboratory. Entry income there, when I started in the mid 1990s, was about $54,000--including house, car, and domestic staff (and I was just a high school band director!)
I now find myself in Vietnam. The highest paid foreigners here earn the astronomic annual income of $12,000 a year (it sounds better when you say 2.5 billion dong). With living expenses here, you would have your education paid off in about 15 years. You can buy a house here for about the same amount of money! And no one cares where you went to school.
Whatever you do, do it for yourself.
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Isn't graduate school (ie masters/doctorate degree) where you would typically rack up the debt? I don't think undergrad (tuition) should cost more than 30K total... unless you're a virtuoso and you need to jump right into a conservatory.
quinterbourne wrote:Isn't graduate school (ie masters/doctorate degree) where you would typically rack up the debt? I don't think undergrad (tuition) should cost more than 30K total... unless you're a virtuoso and you need to jump right into a conservatory.
except most private institutions cost close to 40K a year
granted most aid packages can bring that down to about half.. or less if you're smart and talented
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quinterbourne wrote:Isn't graduate school (ie masters/doctorate degree) where you would typically rack up the debt? I don't think undergrad (tuition) should cost more than 30K total... unless you're a virtuoso and you need to jump right into a conservatory.
If you are paying to go to grad school, you aren't good enough to go to grad school.
[with a minor exemption for those who pay for the FIRST year of grad school at a ReallyReallyReallyGood grad school, with the idea of demonstrating that your crappy undergraduate record represents a phase of your life that you have now outgrown, and thus convincing them to pay for the rest of your grad school]
[three guesses on why I make allowances for that minor exception...]
And...as someone else pointed out: $30K for 4 years of quality undergraduate education? You must (still) be on drugs!
