<p>I am looking for schools that offer merit based art scholarships for my daughter and realized that this would be a good idea for a thread. So if you know of any colleges that offer talent based scholarships for art majors, please add to the list!</p>
<p>I don’t have the list but my son was nominated for an art scholarship at UW-Madison. All the rest of his merit aid were based on his scores, his ethnicity and scores, and a scholastic arts award. Recently, he received a small merit award from Carnegie Mellon U. That scholarship was not advertised.</p>
<p>George Washington U has a $15K/year Presidential Scholar in the Arts merit award–requires separate application plus an interview (my son did this by phone as we live very far away).</p>
<p>WashU of St.L has 1 full tuition and a half tuition scholarship for Art Major–requires separate application plus an interview.</p>
<p>CMU offers unlisted merit scholarships (around $7500/K year) to some incoming art majors.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how good USC is for art (not a put down of the program, just don’t know) but they definitely have merit scholarships in every department, including those with a portfolio/audition/creative aspect of the application. The application has to be in by Dec. 1 (before the general deadline) to be considered for these scholarships.</p>
<p>You can get up to a full ride at California College of the Arts (~$30,000). Not sure what the breakdown is between “need”, “merit”, and academic standings, but they’re high. One of the more famous scholarships is “Faculty Top Honors” which will give out about $10,000 a year I think which is purely portfolio, there’s also a presidential one that I think gives out about the same, maybe a little more.</p>
<p>Great information added so far! Keep 'em coming :)</p>
<p>@ Nester, good point, due dates for art supplements are generally a full month ahead of actual application deadline submission. </p>
<p>To add to that, there are also schools that require a separate application to be considered for their art scholarships, so check before only submitting an art supplement.( i.e. Kenyon’s has an entire separate app.)</p>
<p>D also got veryu generous merit money from New Hampshire Institute of Art. That plus the relatively low tuition made it a very good bargain. She also got merit aid from KCAI, int he amout of almost twice as much as from MACD.</p>
<p>My son was offered $60,000 over 4 years for his portfolio at RMCAD. That still means $20,000 a year. We are looking elsewhere as well: art schools, lacs and big public universities.</p>
<p>My D was offered a 20,000 per year artisic merit scholarship from Hartford Art School @ University of Hartford and was just told she she will now be invited to compete against the others who have been awarded 15 to 20,000 for 1 of 4 full tuition scholarships they offer.</p>
<p>Alfred also offered $9,000 per year based on portfolio.</p>
<p>Still hoping to see what RIT and Syracuse might offer!</p>
<p>University of Southern California has a lot of merit money- ranging from full tuition to smaller amounts. I’m not sure how the art scholarships are handed out, but I believe each school has a percentage of the big ones (trustee: full tuition, and presidential, half-tuition) to award to incoming students.</p>
<p>My daughter will receive $7500/year merit scholarship from Temple University (Tyler School of Art) just based on her grades and test scores and she has applied for additional scholarships for portfolio and for self portrait.</p>
<p>My daughter is a Senior in high school and attends an Arts High here in MN (The Perpich Center for Arts Education). She applied to 4 schools that grabbed her fancy. She got accepted to all 4, and offered partial Merit scholarships to 3 of them.</p>
<p>MCAD offered her $10,000 a year for 4 years
Kendall (in Michigan) offered her $9,500 a year for 4 years
KCAI offered her $16, 000 a year for 4 years
She also applied to Ringling, got in, but no $$</p>
<p>KCAI was her top choice. She loved their reps at the 2 portfolio days they had at her school (Jr and Sr years), and how excited they were about her different types of work (she works with different media in addition to her drawing…this Arts high school has really encouraged her to be MORE creative!!). She wanted a green space, smaller school so we are hoping this is the right choice!</p>