Music student college choice!?

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<p>Hi everyone…here’s my story.
I have been a musician my whole life. I play piano, guitar, sing and most of all, compose. I had always dreamed of studying music composition in college so in my senior year of high school, I applied to Cornish College of the Arts, University of the Arts, Berklee College of Music and Carnegie Mellon. I ended up receiving a generous scholarship from UARTS, so I planned to attend there in fall 2012. Everything was great :)</p>

<p>FAST FORWARD: AUGUST 2012</p>

<p>I am at UARTS, the music dept is terrible…building is falling apart and I am realizing that making a career in music (besides teaching) is pretty damn difficult. My dreams of being a film composer might be a little far from reality. I leave UARTS and come home.</p>

<p>I’ve always been an active reader, factual nut (I like to know things, when I don’t, I look them up on wikipedia no matter what the subject) and also think I have an interest in architecture even though I don’t truly know what it entails. Despite all this, music always comes back to bite me in the ***. It is my “true” passion and it always be…I just need to find a college where I can use all of my ability. </p>

<p>I am reapplying to schools for Fall 2013 and I’m confused if I should just go straight for a conservatory and spend four years studying music, which I think would be great, but useless in the long run? OR are there any schools out there where I can do some of everything with an emphasis in music. </p>

<p>I CAN’T IMAGINE MY LIFE WITHOUT MUSIC. HELP?</p>

<p>Thanks
Zach</p>

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<p>There are liberal arts schools with good music departments and a lot of musicians on campus (Wesleyan, for example), liberals arts schools connected to conservatories (Oberlin) and universities with known graduate schools in music (Northwestern, U. Rochester, Hopkins) where you could study other things as an undergraduate in addition to music and that might be a better route but all of those depend on your stats. Of course there would be other similar places for lower stats. Ask on the music major forum too.</p>