One note out of your post, op, don’t put yourself down with your abilities on violin. It might seem that high level programs like Juilliard and Northwestern and the rest are full of prodigies (whatever the heck that is), but I can tell you as can others on here that isn’t true, that many of those kids you see at your age going from competition to competion, with this long resume of competition wins, glorious debuts at places like Carnegie Hall or other prestigious concert halls, are more hype than substance and many of them never even make it into the high level schools (among other things, kids pushed that early to excel often burn out in my experience), and the real key to getting into the high level programs is going to be doing what you are doing, working on your music, gaining experience through performance opportunities like chamber and orchestra programs , a lot of it is going to be desire to do music and work hard, people like my son and some of the other posters on here that I know of personally have kids who weren’t the ones on the competition circuit, weren’t the ones who were promoted as prodigies and so forth, and yet got into top level undergrad and grad programs. So don’t assume the image is the reality, it isn’t, I can promise you that:)