<p>It’s realistic if you can get admitted to both the College and the Conservatory, which I understand is done separately, on your own merits (that is, without one influencing the other). I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere on the Oberlin website. </p>
<p>That said, being a realist, and being old, I kinda know how the world works, and sometimes what happens in practice ain’t the same as what it says in print.</p>