My daughter plays several wind instruments and piano at a high level. She has been heavily involved with music since a young child. She will be studying engineering and plans to continue to participate in music. She earned a full tuition scholarship and while it is not for music, her depth of music involvement certainly came to play in her application success.
While she won’t be attending Purdue, she did apply there and get a partial tuition scholarship, but one thing that was intriguing about their music program was that PU has no music school so students are not competing for spots in groups with music majors. Further, the music program is supportive of engineering student’s busy schedules. That was appealing to my daughter. A couple other schools we visited made it clear that she simply would unlikely have time even if she could get in past music majors. This doesn’t help you financially, but makes a difference for a non music major who wants to stay involved in music.