<p>Running Statistics
Users: 169
Acceptances: 489
Dual Degree: 25
Dual Major: 16
Schools: 141
Instruments: 27
Decisions: 14
Accepts/User: 2.89
Scholarships: 104
Scholarship Total: $1,417,880
Average Scholarship: $13,633</p>
<p>Hi there, I’m a freshman flute player at Boston Conservatory. If you or your daughter have any questions about the different teachers or the program, let me know! I’d be happy to help!</p>
<p>D will attend Oberlin for BM Performance (voice). They came through with financial aid! In fact, it was much better than any school where D was accepted. We are very happy and thankful it worked out. This forum really helped get us through the process with useful information and support. Thank you!</p>
<p>Congratulations to hmh3515 and daughter.</p>
<p>Congrats hmh3515!!! It’s wonderful when everything falls into place! Great school choice.</p>
<p>Thanks, ABlestMom. Has your D decided yet?</p>
<p>Final decision of going to Manhattan School of Music in the fall for vocal performance.</p>
<p>Congratulations, MezzoGirl.</p>
<p>Have been reading this thread for awhile but never posted: my question is What is the general opinion about Berklee?? Worth the money or just alot of hype because of the famous rep?</p>
<p>S’s music scholarship awards for the four schools that he was accepted at:
. Michigan State, $8,000/yr, renewable
. Univ of Mich, $2,000/yr, renewable
. Western Mich, $2,000/yr renewable
. Univ of North Texas, no music scholarship, but did qualify for academic merit scholarship which gets him in-state tuition, yay!</p>
<p>I do have a question about the “renewability” of scholarship awards for subsequent years. As long as the student satisfies the specified criteria (e.g., GPA, continuing as music major, performs in an ensemble) is it quite certain that the scholarship would be continued, or are there outside factors, like school’s lack of funding, that would cause scholarship to be withdrawn? I recall vaguely a relative complaining that their D’s music scholarship did not live up to what they thought it promised.</p>
<p>As others have mentioned, now comes the hard part of deciding. All good schools and have met nice people at each.</p>
<p>Jazz-1 of my S’s scholarship letters actually said 4 years unless there are budget cuts. How did you find out about no scholarship from UNT? We have heard nothing yet and they said they would release 4/1</p>
<p>JTM, got the numbers in the spreadsheet including the annual difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition at UNT for someone taking 18 credit hours per semester. If there was a merit award over and above that differential, I will be happy to add that is as well. Thanks.</p>
<p>Congratulations to cg521 and daughter for daughter’s acceptance as a horn performance major at Indiana University, Carnegie Mellon and Southern Methodist University, as noted on another thread.</p>
<p>Most schools do their absolute best to live up to their promises for continuing scholarships–it is very bad marketing not to. However, tuition and fees tend to go up a lot each year (at some of the expensive schools about $3000 per year, meaning that if tuition, board, room, fees are $45000 for 2010-11, they could be $57000 by the time this year’s crew is in fourth year). The scholarships normally do not increase, so families can be left with an extra $12000 to pay by fourth year.</p>
<p>hawkrn, I did find it hard to decipher the particulars of the scholarship awards between the schools. One gave the total over 4 years, a couple the total for one year, and then in fine print, that you could re-apply the next year. One school I had to email to verify that it was renewable.</p>
<p>We heard about the UNT academic merit scholarship through a snail mail letter from SFAS (student financial aid & scholarship) last week. I had talked to a representative of theirs about a month ago after S’s UNT audition just to make sure they had all the info they needed. Basically they told me you get an academic merit award if you are in one of two tiers, top 10% of your class or top 25% of your class. There’s also an ACT/SAT score requirement too. Son qualified for the lower tier (been too busy playing music to study, ha!) I was sort of expecting a music scholarship to come too, since the jazz trombone professor he auditioned with had said for sure he’d get the $1000 to qualify him for out-of-state tuition waiver. But today I re-read the UNT email that had the audition result and acceptance and it said “you have not been recommeded for a college of music scholarship”. I don’t know if the music department has advance notice of who’s going to get academic scholarships and then bypasses them for music scholarships, or if son is not as talented as we thought, lol.</p>
<p>BassDad. S’s UNT academic merit award is for $12,000 total, or $3,000 per year. Are the scholarship amounts in the same spreadsheet as the acceptances? I looked once and didn’t see any.</p>
<p>Hi allmusic, there are a few of us that have students at Berklee now. PM if you have specific questions, but my D is there is totally loving every second. She is a vocalist w/ piano and arranging skills and is working incredibly hard. Her peers she has met are from around the world and deeply talented from what I’ve seen of some of their youtube and facebook postings.</p>
<p>Just got back from Ouachita Baptist University, the school that gave us [Point</a> of Grace.](<a href=“http://www.pointofgrace.net/about]Point”>About — Point of Grace) S accepted there and blessed with the maximum amount for a vocal scholarship. I was moved by the visit as well.</p>
<p>Speaking of visits - they’re now over for “S”, so decision time is upcoming.</p>
<p>JTM,</p>
<p>Yep - same spreadsheet over pretty far to the right in column O (as in the letter, not the number 0) and, of course, not every row has an entry in that column. We report amounts for the first year only, so I will add 3000 to the tuition differential at UNT.</p>
<p>OTamandua, congratulations once again to you and your son. I am going to assume that this is a Music Education major like all of his other acceptances. If that is incorrect, let me know and I will correct the entry.</p>