Baldwin Wallace University

Date: Nov 29 2009
Major: Music - Performance (This Major's Salary over time)
Academically, one has to merely exhaust every resource available through personal initiative. If one does this, they will be afforded the same opportunities as, say, an Oberlin college graduate.

In the conservatory, however, the numbers speak for themselves. Last year alone, half (or more) of my studio transferred schools or left the music degree. Whereas most of the rest, had at one point or another seriously considered transferring in the past. I hear that the drop out rate of my studio is consistently high every year—and it is not just my studio. The few "meaningful" relationships I have had with people in the con were established through our mutual malcontent with the program and the opportunities it affords. I think there is an incredible amount of breadth to the BW education as long as you are willing to give that education to yourself. I do not identify with the teaching styles of most of my professors, but I respect many as individuals. I think this is the one factor that has kept me here this long. BW is a gem for its people; they are so personally attentive and caring it is almost enough to make you feel guilty for asking for anything. Despite this, the con faculty think too highly of themselves and their art. The result of which is a conservatory cesspool of self-centered bitches who would rather blindly follow instruction than care about anything outside of themselves. Maybe if these students stopped trying to suck up to the professors who are full of shit, and started exploring their art and the world around them, maybe BW could finally make a name for itself from its graduates (since this is what the administration only seems to really care about anyways).