<p>I originally had suggested Northwestern too I believe before you posted the schools she was interested in and that included Northwestern. </p>
<p>The dual degree option with New England Conservatory and Tufts is a really attractive option for a student who wants great music training and a very selective university with liberal arts too. You may wish to look into the dual major of this sort at Carnegie Mellon too. I had a student who applied there wanting to major in both Music Composition and Creative Writing and there is a special dual program between music and humanities there that she had to apply into and it also involved auditions.</p>