My DC is making a similar choice and has similar concerns. CMU music technology or UMich BS in music technology. We have visited UMich and go to CMU next week. The facilities at SMTD seem great. But DC was turned off by the bus ride from main campus. I am worried about the size. I think the music school inside a larger university will be grounding but a good part of DC’s course kid will be in engineering. From what I can tell from the outside engineering at UMich can have more “weed out” classes. But SMTD seems really vibrant. Seems like it would feed DC’s creative side. We are still pretty confused here. We went through the college application process with one other child who had a strong gut level reaction. That isn’t happening this time around at least so far. Maybe CMU will feel right after a campus visit. There I worry about campus stress level, although maybe the school of music tempers that.