<p>Does anyone know about any choral scholarships that don't require you to major in music, just to sing in the university/ university-affiliated-church choir? (my mom went to school in England, and they have programs like that there- I have no idea whether they exist in the US. probably not...) Or do you know where I could find any information about them? The collegeboard financial aid finder has been extremely unhelpful...</p>
<p>buuuump....</p>
<p>Short answer is yes. Long answer is it is school specific. There's a few threads in the music major forum detailing some schools with music scholarships for non-music majors.</p>
<p>General rule is that they tend to be in smaller schools, many with very solid music programs, where the music department has a good overall rep, but the school is not on the list for the performance type student.</p>
<p>Just to throw out a couple schools: Hamilton, Franklin & Marshall, and Wagner all give "choral" (music) scholarships. </p>
<p>As violadad said, it's school specific, so do your research. Our experience is that the scholarships are on the small side (say, $5,000/year), and require you to participate in one or more ensembles, so you need to judge for yourself whether they're worth pursuing.</p>
<p>DadofB&G....our experience is that for non-majors, scholarships are available for musicians only on "needed" instruments or where the school needs to fill the ranks of their ensembles (either instrumental or choral). DD receives $750 a year plus free instrument lessons at her school.</p>
<p>thumper1,</p>
<p>Our D (voice) received a music scholarship from F&M (I think it was for $5,000, but that was 3 years ago) after an audition. She wasn't going to major in music, but she had to sing in at least one group. OTOH, the scholarship had no real value to us because we had FA need, and it probably just lowered the school's loan expectation. F&M was a safety.</p>
<p>Hamilton offered S (voice) a $5,000 music scholarship this year w/o an audition. I admit this one was a little funny, because it came out of the blue, so it might just have been a way to give him a little more aid - Hamilton's offer was pretty good and it was #2 on S's list.</p>
<p>I know kids who have gotten music scholarships at Wagner (on Staten Island), but I don't know for how much. They are audition-mandatory, I think.</p>
<p>I guess my experience is that schools may give these kinds of scholarships for both the reasons you have stated and maybe also just to get a kid they want, anyway.</p>
<p>Oops; S's was for $7500 and D's for $2500.</p>