The second point is, even if your level is good, can you master English technical terms freely? A considerable number of domestic piano majors go to the United States for further study after graduation, and American teachers will not feel anything after listening to it. This is a matter of atmosphere. Piano education in China is not at the same level as that in the West. From the understanding of harmony to the choice and practice of songs, the atmosphere in China is not as good as that in the West. The most obvious thing is that our etude is a test track, and if it is not a test track, it will not be used decisively. But in fact, too many good tracks are not in our grading system.
Let's talk about the school application first. Although the United States and Britain have well-known art colleges, there are still some differences. As a creative power, the United States is one of the countries with the most developed art industry in the world. The requirement for the applicant is that the portfolio should show my creativity and moldable potential. In China, art colleges are relatively more difficult to test than art departments of comprehensive universities. Some people mistakenly think that foreign universities are all the same, so they apply for the art department of a comprehensive university. In fact, the language requirements for applying for foreign comprehensive universities are the same as those for students of other majors.
I don't know if your college education in recent years can be used as credit for transfer. In other words, suppose you majored in accounting and studied in China for three years, but it is an unknown university. However, if you apply for a business major in the United States, you can evaluate which courses you can take as credits, and you can save freshmen or even sophomores in the future. But now that you are studying this small class, I really don't know what the other school will think. After all, the transfer of art majors is very rare, probably from freshman year. You should be mentally prepared.
If you are preparing for TOEFL, you'd better take 100 or above, and you'd better have a good SAT score. The gap between different institutions is very large, such as Berkeley, Curtis and "Free University", and the disparity in admission standards will be very large. So you'd better make a reservation What kind of school are you going to? Whether to go to graduate school or not to study after graduation. If you don't study, you should go back to China first or try to find a job. In other words, many piano majors graduated from domestic universities and went on studying in the past. The education level is relatively high. You should know this situation.
Generally speaking, it's easier to apply for a piano major in a university, but the most important thing is your audition. The less popular the university is, the less well-known the major, the easier it is to apply and the easier it is to be admitted, because many people regard this opportunity as a springboard. If you want to learn piano as your future job, then go to Juilliard and Manhattan Conservatory of Music, both of which are good.
As for the basic music education in western countries, I feel very different in Britain-at a children's piano concert held for a city, children aged around 10 played the level of children aged five or six in China, which was really incomparable with smart children in China. I just finished practicing "Bell" when I went back to school, and I was not very familiar with fantasy improvisation. After listening to my performance, a local student came over as easy as blowing off dust, but he is a student of science and engineering. He looks very ordinary, not at all like a child with a certain piano level in China, and his temperament is obvious. What I want to say is that basic education in western countries is very powerful.