<p>Harvard’s music department is not a conservatory; it’s an academic based music program. Students interested in music do not declare their concentration until sophomore year, so having contact with music professors would be akin to having contact with teachers in the physics or math department. It’s nice, but admissions does not give them slots, like they do with the athletic department.</p>
<p>I can’t remember where I read this, but supposedly the number one extracurricular activity cited by applicants to Harvard is music – and music at a high level, seven to ten years of piano or violin, performances at Carnegie Hall, think Yo Yo Ma.</p>
<p>That said, I know of several prospective students who have met with professors in the music department – some have been accepted, others rejected. (The rejected student is now at Juilliard studying piano, so his music skills were not the issue.) You could always contact someone in the music department and ask them: [Harvard</a> Department of Music](<a href=“http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/contact.html]Harvard”>http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/contact.html).</p>