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i took several music major courses myself including piano lessons from cornell professors - you get automatic A's for lessons (4 credit if you are a music major), and i got A's in all music major courses.
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Cornell's also not at all known for its music schools... And while I was in high school, I debated between a career in piano performance or engineering until I blew out my wrists in a spectacular Beethoven-related carpal tunnel disaster, so I'm in about the same position as it sounds like you were, but my roommate was a violin performance undergrad at the Shepherd School at Rice, and I met my husband while he was working on his masters at Shepherd, too... Yeah, I didn't hold a candle to them. My husband's always writing, and my roomie was (still is) always practicing. Being around them, I learned really quickly that there's a huge difference between considering a career in music and committing to it. It's like throwing your life off a cliff and hoping you bounce. For every academic job opening in my husband's field, there are around 100 applicants.
Music or art is a joke in some places. It's definitely not a joke at the serious places.