@eyemgh Yes, but thats all the CIM professors teach, is performance type music lessons and music theory. Our son
was a hornist there, at Case. He was able to play in the University Circle Wind Ensemble with CIM, as they needed horns back then, but I think string players at Case cannot play in the CIM orchestra, but there are other string ensembles that will work.
There is a joint program now between CiM and CWRU, so now CWRU students can take classes at CIM,
see this program, the Case students take music theory and music lessons at CIM, those are the only classes CIM offers.
All CIM students have always taken all their English and history and other general ed at Case. Also if
they want to become K-12 music teachers, that program resides at Case.
https://music.case.edu/about/joint-program-with-cim/
My son played at the CIM venue as well, and he never applied or was a CIM student. He was not even a music major
or minor in fact, although he went to Case thinking of minoring in horn, auditioned and got into the music program at Case. All the advanced horns could take lessons at CIM, as I remember.
Also look at what they have done with the Synagogue if you have not seen this, its magnificent for dance majors,
theatre majors at Case-
https://case.edu/maltzcenter/
Also this joint CWRU program with the downtown theaters in Cleveland, Cleveland Playhouse-
https://theater.case.edu/graduate/
We really liked the philosophy classes at Case Western, its a true liberal arts school , the Western Reserve College, combined with Case Institute of Tech, back in 1967.
By far, the Arts and sciences is stronger and better at Case than some of the engineering fields, so I don’t know
why everyone pegs it as an “engineering” school. It think its more well rounded. For instance, every freshman reads a book before the fall together and discusses it. Every major, including the nurses, takes three reading and writing classes to graduate.
Its a pretty interesting school, Case Western, see the Ethical Business program, with the Enamori Center at Case.
That group sent my son on two leadership conferences, all expenses payed, one was at the US Naval Academy,
and the other in Los Angeles.
Case Western also offers students mostly subsidized trips to fun cities over fall break, like Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York City. The faculty at Case are phenomenal, too for helping students reach their goals.
My son was able to take economics, math, physics, computer science, and also take quite a few English/philosophy classes, and he learned to write well. He got coached to apply to graduate schools in physics, and got into many. He got coached on how to pass the physics GRE subject exam and he got a very good score, using the Case Western study method.
I cannot say enough good things about Case, but OP cannot get into it, with a low SAT score.