<p>If so, at what schools? I've been looking but can't find many.</p>
<p>If by “full ride” you mean full tuition talent scholarships - I wouldn’t hold my breath. But if your grades and test scores are high enough, you might get an academic merit scholarship. Also, depending on your financial need, many schools will meet that with a financial aid package.</p>
<p>Like megpmom, I don’t know of any full tuition talent scholarships but I know that USC offers full ride scholarships for some and I believe they are based on academic merit regardless of your major. My daughter was in contention for one which included everything including airfare to USC for the interview process.</p>
<p>So, theatre doesn’t matter, only my grades do?</p>
<p>There are talent awards for theatre at many schools, but these are typically not anywhere close to full tuition. My D auditioned last year and her talent scholarships were in the range of $2500 to $5000. Her merit awards were much bigger, so grades do count!</p>
<p>amtc,</p>
<p>USC offers a large number of merit scholarships. These range from tull tuition to 1/4 tuition. Each school such as business, music, theatre, engineering, architecture and cinema has a certain number to award depending upon the number of students enrolled.
The Trustee Scholarship is a full tuition scholarship. </p>
<p>The Trustee is for merit, but the entire application is considered. It is not just about scores and grades. A student may have an exceptional talent, overcome physical challenges, exhibited outstanding leadership or unique accomplishments. A certain number of these are awarded to incoming theatre students.</p>
<p>Competition was record breaking this year as 22,000 applied for the full range of merit scholarships given to freshmen. These included the Trustee, Presidential, Dean’s and a long list of smaller scholarships such as Town & Gown, Leadership, ethnic groups, Topping (Service & Need), Associates, Alumni Club, Alumnae Association, Annenberg, SCions, Half Century and Panhellenic.</p>
<p>Georgia Girl - I’m sorry if I misrepresented what USC offers, that was my impression from 2 1/2 years ago. My daughter turned down the opportunity to compete for the scholarship as we do not need it financially and she wanted to open it up to those who might need it more.</p>
<p>We know someone who has been given a full-ride talent scholarship to a leading MT school, but he was asked not to broadcast the fact.</p>
<p>It seems that the top MT schools get very competitive for talented male performers.</p>
<p>I suggested that our D audition in drag, but she didn’t go for it. ;-)</p>
<p>HighSchool - There are many variations out there. My D received a mix of academic and talent scholarships from various schools. None of the talent scholarships represented full tuition but she was pleased with the offers. Keep in mind at some schools you can get one or the other - academic or talent - but not both, while at others the scholarships are stackable. If you can post the geographic area for the schools you are interested in, along with your academic stats you may be more successful in getting more detailed information. Best of luck!</p>
<p>HighSchoolDropIn-look into Muhlenberg in PA. Terrific theatre program. They give talent scholarships up to $4,000, but they also give academic merit awards which can be substantial, let’s say $15,000 a year. You can get both.</p>
<p>Also take a look at Case Western. Their theater department gives 5 Theater scholarships ($22,500/year for 4 years) based on talent (like many schools who offer merit, they may also consider grades–not sure). Not full tuition, but significant.</p>
<p>What about UNC Chapel Hill or NYU?</p>
<p>When our D auditioned at the Hartt School (U of Hartford) they mentioned that the average talent scholarship was $10K and it was based strictly on their audition, and that it was their goal to offer some scholarship money to 90% of their acceptances. Some of those awards could be as low as $1,000, while they do occasionally grant “full rides.”</p>
<p>Our D also recently got large scholarships, based on her audition, from UArts and AMDA.</p>
<p>So there definitely is some money out there for talent scholarships.</p>
<p>Whitman College offers a Presidential scholarship in theatre that covers full financial need</p>
<p>If you’re talking financial need, as demonstrated by CSS Profile/ FAFSA, Northwestern has a policy of meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need for every admitted student… BUT they offer virtually no merit-based aid as they say that every admitted student would deserve it.</p>