<p>I really hope you will go to the music forum here on CC. Just go back to discussion home and then click on music major under the majors section.</p>
<p>There are all kinds of ways to include music in your studies. Read this:
[Double</a> Degrees | Peabody Conservatory](<a href=“http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html]Double”>http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html)</p>
<p>Music is a rigorous major, similar in difficulty to premed. In fact, music majors have the highest acceptance rate to medical school, as a group. Theory, musicology, music analysis, history, ethnomusicology, music technology and composition are all part of the curriculum, even at conservatories.</p>
<p>There are many many schools where you can do both science and music, either as a double major, a major and a minor, or a double degree (see the link above on this). Look at Oberlin, Bard, Lawrence, Barnard, Vassar, Clark U., many many others of varying degrees of selectivity.</p>
<p>At the grad level, there are programs that link music and neuroscience- a hot area of research, and there are also music therapy programs that apply this science.</p>
<p>At the undergrad level, look at schools like Bennington that would require you to link music and science of those were your interests. Also a school that has a lot of homeschoolers (but quite liberal- look at Berea or Gordon College if you are home for religious reasons).</p>
<p>Just go to college with an exploring attitude. I am sorry that your parents don’t understand the music major. The kids I know with that major had great job prospects after graduation, and not necessarily in performance or even in music itself.</p>