My D1 has been playing the cello since she was 4, and became very accomplished, winning numerous competitions etc. She is not a music major but did get a talent based scholarship and plays in the university’s philharmonic where all the music majors play.
As an aside, she got a very good internship for this summer in a STEM field, and her interviewers later told her that one of the reasons they hired her was because she was a musician, and has the ability to see patterns clearly.