<p>Do your kid's friends ask you for help with their college stuff? :confused: It worries me - it's not like I've done such a great job helping my own kids!</p>
<p>Anyway, friend is rising senior. She has a 91 GPA (Catholic HS) and 2040 SATs (I think that's what she said). She needs merit money badly; she may only get about $10K/yr from parents, EFC is unknown but probably not terribly low. She wants to be in a city. She is strong in theater (always had lead in HS plays and musicals) but probably won't major in music or music theater (she doesn't know what she wants to do). She wants to be at a school where there are theater kids and she can participate.</p>
<p>Obviously, a few of the SUNYs are on her list already. But I got thinking about Duquesne. Anybody have any ideas on that or any other schools?</p>
<p>I don't know how far afield she wants to go, but Beloit gives out a lot of merit money. 1350 SAT (old) qualifies for decent merit money inmany places. There is a thread on schools that offer merit money and the stats required for them. Can't remember name or who started them.</p>
<p>I don't know if Beloit is too far. Her parents are a little lukewarm on the whole college thing. It might be a tough sell. I'll add it to her list though.</p>
<p>tell her to check out LeMoyne College in Syracuse. Nice school, many majors to choose from, has a theater program, and they usually offer pretty generous merit/financial aid.</p>
<p>Weenie, Doesn't Ithaca College have some amazing awards for their Park School of Communications (or something like that)? I think it is good for theatre too, and it would be more local for her.</p>
<p>DS applied to Duquesne as a music major. He also received their Presidential Scholarship in addition to a music merit award. His stats weren't nearly as lofty as those posted by the OP. His total "free aid" ended up being in the $15,000 range. At the time, this was almost 1/2 of the cost of attendance. We loved Duquesne as a campus...within walking distance of the downtown, but also campus like. It was not too big and not too small. Pittsburgh is a great town, with lots going on in the arts, sports and entertainment. I don't really know about Duquesne and theater, but I do know that non-majors cannot play in their music ensembles, except for the pep band. They have a very strong music ed program and plenty of music majors to fill their ensembles. You might want to call and ask about theater opportunities. I will say, there will be plenty of opportunity to SEE good theater in Pittsburgh. They have a very nice arts district within a short walk of Duquesne. My son didn't go there, but he did like the place.</p>
<p>Re: BU...yes, good theater. But the theater department productions are for theater majors ONLY. There were some opportunities for non-majors to do other productions but I'm not sure how consistent they were. There was a student driven musical done parents weekend every year and non-majors typically did that one. Other than that, I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I had forgotten about LeMoyne. That is a good suggestion. Ithaca is good too, except I have a friend whose kid didn't get very good money from them - and she is a very excellent violinist with (better) stats than this girl.</p>
<p>CMU, NYU, U Pitt and BU are probably off the table due to too expensive and not enough merit money given out. I'll look into Wagner; I've never heard of it.</p>
<p>Thanks for your first hand experience with Duquesne Thumper. Interesting that they come right out and tell you that non-majors can't get into ensembles. I think too many schools sort of gloss that one over... I'll make sure she asks about theater.</p>
<p>^ Well, LOL, they didn't give any to my kid! :D</p>
<p>I looked at the awards they gave on here, and yes, they're good, but the kids are very high stats - I think higher than this. I like Pitt a lot though. Hopefully she can do some tours - but I don't know.</p>
<p>My child goes to Duquesne. He has a combination of scholarships (academic and talent) that amount to a little over half the total cost. The scholarships make it a good value. If the student does not get a full tuition scholarship and does not have a talent that can get additional money, Duquesne can be costly.</p>
<p>If she wants city area, she could check out LaSalle, Saint Joseph's and Villanova. All Catholic schools within/near Philadelphia & they have theatre groups as EC and not necessarily a major.
Villanova is the most costly and may not be so great on merit $...but all of these might be worth a look.</p>