Let’s see, hundreds of thousand attend college and this scandal involved a handful of people and very very few admits over many years. It also involved Stanford, Yale, UCLA, UCB, Georgetown and other elite universities. Thankfully most with common sense know it isn’t a reflection of the school, but of a very few bad apples. 99.999% of the students earned their place at the great schools, but some will be bitter regardless. It certainly did highlight how coveted admission to any of these schools really is.
@thecooleststudent Agree with @USCAlum05 and would also suggest posting in the College Search and Admission’s forum for suggestions on other schools to include in your research in addition to USC that offer the combination of science and music you are looking for. There’s a lot of super helpful posters on this site. But you should definitely apply to USC, beside bio, they have some really interesting music minors.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/