The Juilliard School supplemental essays

Only for some programs.

These apply if you’re applying to the program named on the prompt.

1. 1Bachelor of Music (all instruments/voice/composition)Optional

   Additional Context

   Should you have a personal or academic circumstance to share that you feel can provide context for a particular point on your resume—for example, a gap year, unusually low grades in a semester or year—you have the option to submit an additional short essay.

   Brainstorm this one with Spike

2. 2Bachelor of Music (all instruments/voice/composition)Required

   Growing into yourself

   Begin by explaining in a few sentences what this quote means to you: "As you grow older, self-knowledge becomes one of the hardest things to acquire….The first level of mastery occurs over self. And the first test of mastery over one's self is humility….[Y]ou have to develop the requisite humility to learn, to love to learn. Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves….You have to become the center of your education. Once you accept that, you'll understand that learning means figuring out what you need to do to get where you want to be." (Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road, 2004, p. 10). Then write about a moment, musical or otherwise, when your knowledge of yourself changed—when an experience, and your reflections on that experience, deepened your understanding of who you are.

   Brainstorm this one with Spike