Want to be a Doctor? Study Music

The opening paragraph of a study done by the Rockefeller Foundation supports this conclusion: “They suggest that an excellent piece of advice for an outstanding student eager to be admitted to medical schools is to be a music major.” “The Rockefeller Foundation study states that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical school, a whopping 66.7 percent!

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Music Makes You Smarter

“In 1979 and 1980. Under the leadership of Dale Kempter, curriculum supervisor of fine arts for the Albuquerque Schools, a study was conducted” and these were the results In the study, the standardized reading, language, and math test scores of all fifth-grade students were compared to those of string students after they had been pulled out of their regular academic classroom for either one or two years of string class study. Results revealed that the string students scored 10 to 20 percentile points higher on all the tests compared to the general fifth-grade population after both one and two years of classroom pull-out. In fact, the longer the students were enrolled in string classes (two years versus one year of instruction), the greater the difference between the academic achievement of string students and the general student population