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I would expect most major universities to have all three programs you're interested in. That would, however, rule out most smaller colleges that could offer you a specialized education more efficiently.
As for your bragging... well, it's nothing that special. Nothing to start talking about how smart you are over (and, for future reference, this is the sentence that's probably making you look bad: "My parents could probably do a better job bragging about my intelligence.").
FE has a point in that you don't seem to have any interest at all in engineering. I'd still strongly advise you to go against any inclinations to focus on music (except as a minor or something), and would recommend looking at other alternatives. Also, what's the name of your tutor? That might go a long way towards justifying your obsession with music (in a good way). Your parents would likely be happy as punch if you went into something like law or medicine - anything appeal to you there? Something specifically in mathematics or science?
It sounds like you're saying that nothing interests you at all except music, which is... not a good place to be in. Also, I agree completely with DTBK. I don't have any of the connections or acquaintances he does, but his post had a very high truthiness factor (and it all, particularly the academic statistics portion, matches with what I
do know - admission was more competitive than I expected when I went through the process). A 2060 SAT is significantly better than average, but average is pretty damn bad. If you try and apply to a competitive program, in engineering or music, you're going to be facing stiff competition for admission (though, I haven't seen any of your musical works, so for all I know you're a new Beethoven). Don't be overconfident.
For testing things out, you can likely try out something along the lines of robotics in high school. My school had both a robotics team and a robotics class, so I got to have some fun building stuff before actually going to college. You can try your hand at programming by taking a programming class, or trying to do it independently - I had a lot of experience beforehand and played around for several years making dynamic websites. Not all that impressive, but it let me know that I actually enjoy sitting in front of a computer and trying to get it work and yelling "Eureka!" when it finally did. You can try getting an internship - they're hard for High School students to get, but it might give you engineering experience outside of what your school offers. You can try getting into some program for High School students offered by a local college; I took a class in Columbia's SHP program on nanotechnology in my junior year, and some local colleges near you may have something similar. If you want to have a slightly easier time in college if you do go down a techie path, I recommend taking Calculus BC and Physics C and the associated AP tests. Oh, and lastly, I if you
do decide to go for Engineering, I recommend applying to
Cooper Union; you probably won't get in without a lot of work, but it's in NYC, it fully covers tuition (and offers financial aid for housing if you
really need it), and it's one of the best Engineering schools in the country. However, there's no music program to speak of, and most of the work in music is done by hobbyists. Not sure how much I'd like to have you here, but I can't help but plug it in an Engineering topic.
That was a mess, but I'm not going to be revising a forum post. Hope you can glean something useful from it.
And all my nonsense about Fourier transforms isn't the point, the point is there's so much overlap in so many fields that there's no reason not to do both.
If you believe there to be an overlap between music composition/history and engineering, say what it is in layman's terms. I do not believe that the average musician is well-versed in fourier transformations (just like an artist isn't well-versed in the technical specifics of light).
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