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conservatory
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If I Stay
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"Just like band camp," she joked, though my summer conservatory program is nothing like American Pie.
Chpt 7 *

conservatory = music school (in this case, music)
I had other good friends at the music conservatory camp I went to in the summer.†
Chpt 4
And, if I wanted to stretch, there was a conservatory in Seattle, which was only a few hours' drive.†
Chpt 5
She pulled out a glossy brochure for the Franklin Valley Conservatory, a summer program in British Columbia.†
Chpt 11
She was one of the most accomplished musicians in the camp—she'd been accepted into the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto—and she was also model-gorgeous: tall, regal, with skin the color of coffee, and cheekbones that could carve ice.†
Chpt 11
Peter Hellman, my trombonist friend from conservatory camp, he died two years ago, but I didn't find out until I returned to camp and he wasn't there.†
Chpt 13
That was the funny thing about conservatory camp; you got so close with the people over the summer, but it was some unwritten rule that you didn't keep in touch during the rest of the year.†
Chpt 13

Definitions:

(1) (conservatory as in: music conservatory)
a school specializing in one of the fine arts -- especially music, dance, or drama
(2) (conservatory as in: plants in the conservatory)
a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)