<p>This is always the first thing we music parents recommend to describe the differences between a double degree, double major, or minor in music - <a href=“http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html”>http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html</a>. </p>
<p>Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University is a respected and very competitive music school and will require an audition for a music degree. I know nothing about the types of classes one can take at Indiana as a non-performance degree student in the College of Arts and Sciences. However, it is possible to get a B.S.O.F degree from Jacobs which allows one to pursue courses which could be sufficient for applying to medical school, without actually getting a second degree. I don’t see that they offer music as a minor.</p>
<p>From the website:
B.S.O.F. The Bachelor of Science in Music and an Outside Field is designed to provide students an opportunity to study music as a major and also another field at nearly the level of a major (27 credit hours). The field in music can be instrumental or vocal performance, composition, jazz studies, or ballet. The outside field can be in any other degree-granting area of the university; some of the most common choices are languages, theater, business, telecommunications, speech, and mathematics.</p>
<p>I recommend you wander over to the music major forum - there are a number of past threads about wanting to continue with music while preparing for med school.</p>