<p>As others have pointed out, you can’t just declare yourself a music major at UCLA. You can at Berkeley, and there are myriad performance opportunities even for non-music majors. If you did not audition and get accepted to a music performance program at UCLA, I believe even your music minor/ensemble opportunities would be limited, but I’m not positive on that.</p>
<p>Having gone to Berkeley myself, my obviously biased opinion is that it’s life changing. The SF Bay area is wonderful. The Cal campus is wonderful. The Poli Sci department is top notch (I had former advisors to two presidents as my teachers - I think that’s still the case.) Northern Cal has more of an east coast feel, and after growing up in Socal, I was hungry for something different. If I’d had my way, I never would’ve left the Bay Area.</p>
<p>As for grad schools, we were surprised to learn here on cc that grad schools consider a music degree to be very rigorous (which it is) and thus, it’s a perfectly acceptable undergrad choice for those applying to grad school (if you’re thinking medical school, though, obviously you’d be missing some requirements).</p>