My junior daughter is interested in continuing music in college. She plays clarinet (looking at 3 years all-state), alto sax in the jazz band, and has ensemble experience on the tenor sax as well. She wants a small college, and wants to stay involved in ensembles and possibly get a BA in music. She has put some pretty hard limits on how far she's willing to go from our home base in South-central Texas. So, we've got Trinity, Southwestern, Austin College, and Agnes Scott (short flight) on our list. She is sitting at about 18th percentile for class rank so Rice is out. Anyway, my question... will these schools, not generally known for music, be disappointing to her in terms of what they have to offer? From what little I can find of performances on YouTube, I'm concerned the ensembles may be at or below what she's doing right now in her very strong high school program and she won't be challenged. But maybe I'm totally off-base.
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