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in general, it's not the case any more that the schools with the biggest reputation are the best places to be. the only upside of the overproduction of phds is that you have good people all over the place--which really means that you should figure out what exactly you want to do (piano is a little vague--you can do lots of things with one..) and figure out what school has the strongest program as a function of that.
there are tons of good programs out there too.
i wouldn't recommend berklee at all, unless you want to do studio musician work in a pop or smooth jazz context or think that fusion is the greatest thing since sliced bread. it is a good place to be for VERY specific kinds of things and not at ALL a good place if you do not want to do one of those.
plus they used to overadmit the first year and then you'd find out after giving them a year's tuition if you really got in or not.
i know alot of people who went there--the better deal seemed to be nec or boston conservatory which would enable you to take advantage of the good stuff at berklee without having to actually go there.
anyway, without knowing more about what you want to do on the piano, it's impossible to say more.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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