NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY APPLICATION ESSAY PROMPT

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Applicants to both undergraduate and graduate programs must submit an essay addressing the following topic:

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Describe your educational and professional goals and tell us your specific reasons for choosing to apply to NEC as you pursue these goals.

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We review the essay to learn more about you as a musician and person, as well as to assess your competency with written English.

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The essay should be 300?500 words in length and must be entered into the appropriate page of the online application. Please note that the online application will accept only very basic text formatting. If you write your essay in a word processing program with the intention of pasting it into the online application, we recommend that you keep the formatting very simple. (Avoid using bold, italics, underlines, indentations, or other similar formatting.)

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D.M.A. Statement of Purpose and Writing Sample: D.M.A. applicants should use the application essay as an opportunity to put forth a statement of purpose briefly describing their professional goals in relation to the D.M.A. program. In addition, D.M.A. applicants should include a second writing sample of 300-500 words on any topic. Both essays should be entered into the appropriate pages of the online application. Please note that it is not necessary for D.M.A. applicants to submit full-length papers as part of their application to NEC.