It would have just been as an EC. I hoped to take lessons from a faculty member (I knew some of them from piano workshops I attended at UT during high school).
The homework was intense from day one. High school had been a breeze for me, so the level of difficulty in my college classes was a surprise. I was in the honors program, and wow, were the other students smart! I knew it was going to take all my concentration to do well.
Also, the music building was a heck of a long way from my dorm, way on the other side of the large campus. Just getting to and from the practice rooms would have taken a lot of time.