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Berklee College of Music admissions and applications


Get the inside scoop on Berklee College of Music admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The admissions process required for Berklee is quiet in depth. One must not only answer the routine questions a college would ask as well as write s...   READ MORE
Current Student
Berklee admits students on a rolling admission schedule. However, incoming classes fill up very quickly. Berklee also admits many transfer and inter...   READ MORE
Current Student
Each person applying to Berklee had to have an instrument of their choice. Whether it be voice (singing) or guitar, piano etc. I chose voice. First ...   READ MORE
Alumni
Had to wait 6 months on an acceptance letter   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The academics of the college vary from professor to professor. Many of the faculty members treat their classes very seriously and demand respect, so...   READ MORE
Current Student
There are a few groups of classes that you must complete to graduate (depending on what program you are in). For degree students you must complete: ...   READ MORE
Current Student
The academic nature can be very intense for a first semester student. When the students are accepted to the college they go through a placement/prof...   READ MORE
Alumni
classed were small, good popular classes filled quickly grading was lenient professors were good workload unrealistic at times   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The program is top notch for people involved in the music industry. Besides all the training and teaching a studen encounters through the years at Ber...   READ MORE
Current Student
The career possibilites are endless. First of all, Berklee offers support for internships made through the school or for credit in your concentrate fi...   READ MORE
Current Student
There are many different majors that the school offers. Ranging from a Performance major to filmscoring, music education to music therapy, Music produ...   READ MORE
Alumni
employment ratio uncertain, I myself am unemployed   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The college provides housing where usually entering freshmen will live to grow into the lifestyle. Most students live off campus in nearby appartmen...   READ MORE
Current Student
The quality of life at Berklee is unique, caring, competitive, and relaxing all rolled into one. There is limited student housing (after your first ...   READ MORE
Current Student
If you have never been to Boston it is a great city. Very clean and for the most part very safe. Berklee is located right in the back bay area so st...   READ MORE
Alumni
no parking available for students   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Berklee is a network. This is almost more important than the information one learns attending the college. The way people interact and communicate i...   READ MORE
Current Student
There are tons of restaurants, music and dance clubs, clubs, bars and anything else you could want in the immediate surrounding area. Since the scho...   READ MORE
Current Student
The school does not have a very big social life. It does not do a greek system or really any type of fraternity or sorority which can be a negative....   READ MORE
Alumni
many clubs available, student population mostly male   READ MORE

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