Selecting Your Diploma Track
This section contains examples of our ECMS multi-year diploma track course schedules. By using this tool, our students can plot out a multi-year course plan to make sure they stay on track to complete the diploma requirements by their senior year. For Adult students, these course schedules offer them a plan which will fit their own time-lines for completion of the diploma they seek.
Students should follow the directions below to arrive at sample schedules. Students may try and re-try until they find a schedule which makes the most sense for them.
Choosing a particular diploma
The school offers three diplomas:
- The Diploma
- The Advanced Diploma
- The Pre-Collegiate Diploma
These diplomas are based on three different lengths of study and as such represent three different depths and breadths of study. The ECMS Diploma is designed to be comfortably completed in 2-years. The Advanced Diploma is designed to be completed in 4-years and the Pre-Collegiate Diploma is designed to be completed in 6-years. These time frames are all approximate and could be stretched out or shortened at the student’s will.
The choice of diploma has to do with the student’s love of music, dedication to music and possibly to what the student plans on doing in the music field. For students who do not intend on majoring in music at the college level and who just want to deepen their experience in music the choice of the ECMS Diploma or the ECMS Advanced Diploma would be appropriate.
For students who are quite serious about music and who might be thinking of majoring or minor in music at the college level the Advanced or Pre-Collegiate diploma would be most appropriate.
No matter which diploma you choose, the University of Rochester maintains your official transcripts with all of you courses and lessons and grades earned for each. These transcripts will be sent to the colleges of your choice for no charge at you request.