Many young musicians go to Berkeley to study. (Schematic/Gian Miceli/Pixabay)
[Look at China October 5, 2021](Look at a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Tang Piao) In the past period of time, freshmen from the entertainment industry have gone to school to report.Aojuan’s studio also released a video, revealing that she has been admitted to the United StatesBerkeley Conservatory of Music(Berklee College of Music).A lot of chinaMusicianAll graduated from this college. Is this a pheasant university that “you can go to with money”?
Low entry and graduation thresholds, high tuition fees
The Berkeley Conservatory of Music is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and was established in 1945. The school is the world‘s largest independent modern music school, famous for American pop music and jazz, and the school system is four years.
To apply for Berkeley Conservatory of Music, SAT scores are not required, IELTS score requirements are lower, and the acceptance rate is higher. The annual tuition fee is about 40,000 US dollars.
Many people are curious about the difficulty of Berkeley’s schoolwork and exams. Yu Jiayun, who once majored in “Professional Musician” at the college, once revealed that most of Berkeley’s students don’t fail courses, “unless you basically don’t come to study.”
Students have to rely on themselves
According to Leo1Bee, an independent musician who graduated with a master’s degree, Berkeley has many excellent teachers as well as teachers who are not experienced enough.
In terms of hardware facilities, Leo1Bee believes that for ordinary musicians, Berkeley’s musical instruments, recording studios, rehearsal rooms, etc. are more than enough to use.
Leo1Bee said, “Berkeley has indeed attracted many outstanding students who have their own ideas and really want to learn things. In general, in Berkeley, there are students who gag at school, and there are also many extremely outstanding students. Here is the one for you. A platform with sufficient technical support depends on the students themselves.”
Many Chinese artists apply for admission
In recent years, the name Berkeley Conservatory of Music has often been associated with artists we are familiar with.
Wang Leehom, whose works were once popular on the streets, Yu Wenwen, who became popular for “Decent”, and the new generation of Ouyang Nana, Wang Yuan, Liu Xianhua, Qian Zhenghao… They all graduated from the Berkeley Conservatory of Music.
Zhang Jie, who has gained a certain reputation after his debut in the draft, once went to Berkeley to study at his own expense.
Ouyang Nana uses Vlog to record her life. A few years ago, the Vlog she shot mainly revolved around her daily life while studying at Berkeley. In her Vlog, you can see Berkeley’s classroom scenes, campus scenes, the process of communication between professors and students, some subjects of the final exam and students’ preparations…
As one of the members of TFBOYS, Wang Yuan’s actions are eye-catching. His trip to Berkeley, from attending the interview, being accepted, to the beginning of school, has become a hot search on the Internet.
Every hot search made everyone familiar with Berkeley Conservatory of Music, and then more mainland artists were admitted to this school.
According to Tim Lee, the admissions director of the international department of the college, in an interview, international students at Berkeley accounted for 40% of the total number of students, and Chinese students accounted for about 30% of international students. More and more Chinese students successfully apply for admission.
Not ranked in the forefront of mainstream universities
The “Grammy Cradle” is often used to describe Berkeley. According to media reports in 2019, Berkeley Conservatory of Music alumni won 283 Grammy Awards, 89 Latin Grammy Awards, 5 Oscars, and 19 Emmy Awards.
However, if you look at the rankings of mainstream universities alone, Berkeley lags far behind.
In the 2021 QS World University Rankings of Performing Arts, the top two are still the Juilliard School of Music in the United States and the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom. However, you can’t find Berkeley Conservatory of Music after you finish the top 50.
The reason is that the evaluation indicators of lists such as USNews and QS are biased towards classical music, while Berkeley is mainly focused on cultivating pop music talents, so it is not in the forefront.
Artists are impetuous and difficult to study quietly
So, must prestigious schools produce high-quality artists? Not always. It is really difficult for those artists who already have a certain reputation to return to the campus to quietly polish their skills.
They ran out of school in two days to attend various activities, filming advertisements and magazine covers. How much time can they spend on studying in four years?
Teacher Liu Tianchi from the Chinese Theatre Acting Department lamented in an interview that the students of the Acting Academy now try their best to ask for leave and go out for filming in their freshman year, and the brokerage companies all help out their ideas.
What if students admitted to colleges such as China National Opera, Beijing Film, Berkeley, etc., have high-quality performance, music and other educational resources? How many artists hold these good-looking academic titles, but use poor acting skills to poison the screen and use bad singing skills to fill the number.
Source: Look at China
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