<p>Uhhhh yeah as an engineering major who is not in the music school, just let me tell you that this school’s music department treats it’s non-majors pretty badly… you really get the short end of the stick in terms of lessons and chamber music. The orchestra is ok … but if you are competitive at the major level, you’ll find that the range of skills in the orchestra goes anywhere from your level to very very low. I definitely picked this school in part because of the prestigious music school, but didn’t realize that its prestige meant that they didn’t have the resources to split the concentration of the professors among less dedicated but still passionate students. </p>
<p>I heard however that you can get in the 5 year program, take lessons with a professor and nothing else, then drop music the next year, which gives you 1 year lessons free (which is not something to scoff at, considering these teachers charge >>100$ an hour).</p>