<p>Spirit - Ok. I don’t actually know where CMU went, it was definitely supposed to be on my list! And about Stanford, thank you for the tip. For some reason, I wasn’t aware of that. I am going to avoid UW because of the size of the school, especially since CWU and WWU are both good safeties. I really want to thank you, Spirit, for all of the help. 
This is why I put this list up here. I’m so glad that there are people out there that are willing to assist those who are new to this.</p>
<p>And @momrath, I am actually female. I didn’t outright say that, but I did mention something about not wanting to join a sorority at some point in the thread. </p>
<p>NEW list (updated with the suggestions of Spirit and momrath):</p>
<p>Safety:
Western Washington
Central Washington</p>
<p>Match:
St. Olaf
Lawrence
Puget Sound</p>
<p>Reach: (In the order of difficulty of admission not assessing music.)
MIT
Vanderbilt
Williams
Northwestern
Wesleyan
Carnegie Mellon (See?! It’s here! )
Oberlin
U Rochester
CIM/CWRU</p>
<p>CIM and Oberlin would be quite a bit farther up the list if we included the fact that flute players are a dime a dozen in the list. In fact, many of the schools would be much more difficult to be admitted to. </p>
<p>I noticed that at Amherst, Vassar, and Smith there was a BA in music, but I didn’t notice a performance degree. If I decide to throw out the performance idea altogether (which is a possibility) at some point, I will consider these schools first.</p>