<p>When you said that people discouraged you from majoring in music, I could imagine anything from “music majors can’t make a living in music, major in something practical so you can get a job after you graduate” to having received some kind of discouraging feedback during high school about your readiness/competitiveness for audition-based music programs that interested you at the time. (Even if it was the second possibility I mentioned, I am sure there have cases in which talented musicians have received inaccurate negative evaluations of talent/potential, for students who started instrumental study later than others, or were too busy with academics and other activities to put in enough time practicing, as examples). </p>
<p>It would be helpful to know what instrument you play, and what has been your level of musical training/involvement before and during college. Have you told your current private teacher about your interest in a career in music? If you like and respect this teacher, I would think his/her evaluation of your talent, potential and readiness for formal academic study in performance, as well as suggestions on how to approach this, would be useful. </p>
<p>Even if you have been taking lessons during college, you probably have not had the same time to practice as a music performance major and may be behind others who majored in music because of that. So I noticed you said you don’t have a lot of time now, but time may be what you need if you have to prepare audition repertoire for one of the programs others have described here. Good luck!</p>