<p>Oh, I meant to say...once students are attending PPU, they can actually go back and look at their audition evaluations - I am not sure this is a good thing for all, as I have had wonderfully talented kids be pretty crushed by the blunt assessments of the auditors - which make those student forget how much they have grown beyond those remarks by the time they read them!</p>
<p>Thank you, Coach C, very interesting and encouraging information about Point Park University.</p>
<p>Forgot to add, interesting and encouraging regarding scholarship $ given. </p>
<p>However, seems odd to give the students access to the auditor's comments on their initial auditions; not sure what purpose that would serve, since they are already accepted and enrolled Hmmmm!</p>
<p>Oklahoma City University awards over 4.5 million each year in academic scholarships in every field, including music. Music students also qualify to be considered for talent based music school scholarships. On top of that, OCU offers tuition free education and room and board for National Merit Finalists. Over 85% of all students receive some sort of financial assistance at OCU.</p>
<p>On top of that, you'll be studying in the premier music school facility in the nation - the new, $30 million Bass School of Music which opens in January.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tgimatocu.com/financialaid/%5B/url%5D">http://www.tgimatocu.com/financialaid/</a></p>
<p>hartt offered me a nice scholarship and i have heard of them offering some musicians that were top students full rides. i guess they might also give them to mt students with top grades. someone said last spring that her daughter got a full scholarship to central florida.</p>
<p>Hartt is a good school; congrats on the scholarship, notarebel!</p>
<p>Musicians can qualify for merit awards at Hartt also, through audition.
Unfortunately, merit awards can not be stacked. So the U of Hartford will not offer a merit award based on academics to a Hartt applicant who has earned a talent award through Hartt.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if scholarships are available to transfer students into Tisch? Bleh It turns out I made a horrible college choice and Tisch is the only big school I can find where I could graduate on time if I transfer which looks likely. I took a huge scholarship to the school I am at, but I turned down some other pretty big ones at the other schools I was accepted to last spring.</p>
<p>Fishbowl - I, for one, and probably hundreds of current senior families, am dying to know where you are in school. Welcome to the forum, by the way. Your e-mail is not activated, and my PM's stay full, so please either share where you currently go to school publicly, or click on my name and send me an e-mail with this info. Thanks, and good luck to you.</p>
<p>Ericsmom, I dont think it would be fair to the school to say because the problem is with ME. It's a small school and everybody else seems to love it. It is an acting major with no musical theatre anyway so most of the kids here probably aren't looking at it. The problem is me feeling like I stick out like a sore thumb on campus and live in a fishbowl hence the name fishbowlfreshman. I think I just need to transfer to a bigger school where I wont feel so claustrophobic. Tisch would be good if they accept me and I can figure out a way to afford it, so any info on potential scholarships for transfers would be good to hear! Otherwise, I might not graduate from wherever I end up until Im 23 which would suck.</p>
<p>I thought it would be helpful to start a thread about merit scholarships for acting and musical theatre.</p>
<p>If I understood my student correctly, at the OU audition for MT they announced that all of the students had received some amount of merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I spoke to an advisor about the OU straight acting merit awards. They are small, but they are offered to incoming freshmen</p>
<p>Webster MT has little to nothing for freshmen but has awards to offer later</p>
<p>CMU gave my student a full ride for 4 years, but I don't know if that is atypical.</p>
<p>Tisch stated that they have very little in the way of merit offerings.</p>
<p>Juliard has merit scholarships available for freshmen</p>
<p>SMU is very well endowed at the Meadows School for a number of generous awards for dancers and actors. </p>
<p>USC had awarded a couple of my students in the past with merit scholarships, and I have heard from college counselors that they are generous with awards. </p>
<p>Anyone else have experience with scholarships of merit?</p>
<p>thanks,
Mary Anna</p>
<p>On this topic, I can only comment from personal experience and would suggest getting this sort of information directly from each school. </p>
<p>At the schools my daughter was accepted to, they all gave merit scholarships to her. I did not even know these existed until they were offered. These came from NYU/Tisch, Boston Conservatory, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Penn State. Some were quite substantial and others less. Penn State's was the least but likely due to it being a state university. All of my daughter's schools also gave need based financial aid. Some put all this into one package and some had the merit scholarship come under separate cover. I don't know the merit awards available at Emerson or CMU but she got financial aid that was need based from those schools and those included grants. The first list I gave had actual merit based scholarships included. UMich stated at the auditions that they had very little merit money to give out for the BFA program but a few kids do get it, just not as many as at some other programs. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Here are the Scholarships</a> at MT Schools. Maybe the moderator can merge the threads. Here are some for acting</a> schools at #270.</p>
<p>Bump-
CollegeMom, can we merge the two threads? Thank you.</p>
<p>Hi everyone. I just merged this newest thread started by Mary Anna today (see post #50) with an existing thread on this topic of scholarships for musical theater schools, so that we don't have two threads on the same topic. So, all the posts up through #49 are the old thread and then the new thread's posts start on #50 so may seem out of sync as they were a separate thread until now. Carry on!
CollegeMom</p>
<p>Thanks collegemom I was waiting for that. If by merit award you mean academic scholarship, my D has received two already this year! Both PPU and Otterbein gave very generous ones, and that was before her best SAT scores last month. I am very pleased to say the least. They are definetly out there :)</p>
<p>Congratulations to Melsmom!! That's awesome!</p>
<p>Thank you, thank you
for the 2 links from the other threads about scholarships. They are most informative and exactly what I was looking for.
I search the board using "scholarships" and couldn't come up with that. So I thank you.</p>
<p>I am really interested in talent merit but would take any info I can gather.</p>
<p>xxx,Mary Anna</p>
<p>Mary Anna, I'm not positive if at some schools, if you can separate the talent from the academic merit because I mostly recall the scholarships my D got as merit and am not sure if it was talent, academic or a combination. Some schools may say like some posters here are talking of getting an academic scholarship (yay, Melsmom's D) before they even audition and are admitted for the BFA. At my daughter's schools, she was not separately admitted academically and then artistically. She simply was admitted (except her case at Emerson). The scholarship which was merit may not have said if it was talent or just what. I'd have to go see I guess. I guess if the scholarship says it came directly from the theater dept. that implies talent. But I just knew these to be merit scholarships. I guess all that differs a bit from school to school too.</p>
<p>It surprises me to find out how differently the schools handle these matters. My d has been accepted to 7 colleges academically and has received academic scholarships so far to 5 of those, and one of them, Otterbein, has nominated her for two other academic scholarships. For the most part it seems that the private liberal arts schools offer the academic scholarships up front at or close to the time of acceptance, whereas the large public universities seem to handle scholarships separately. So we were really surprised when she got an academic scholarship with her acceptance to Arizona. </p>
<p>On the subject of merit scholarships, as Mary Anna asked, my d says at the OU audition she did not hear them say all accepted students would get merit scholarships (it's a smallish program--they take 12 per year). Maybe it was stated at the parents' meeting, or she might have missed hearing that. They did pass out packets to the students. In my d's packet, there was a thick book listing all the OU scholarships. I was happily surprised to see there are quite a few MT talent scholarships!</p>
<p>D#1, at UofA was given a merit scholarship for all four years which covered her full tuition. it never occured to me to inquire if this was a talent or academic based scholarship, i do know however that she needed to reapply for it each year and that her gpa could not dip below a certain level, if that helps. Apparently she has friends who also have merit scholarships but for certain dollar amounts. as ive said before, i think UofA is quite generous with their scholarships.</p>
<p>MTMOMMY, I'm glad you are sharing about other schools besides there ARE big differences in how it is done as I mentioned. A lot of schools your D and some others on here are applying to, my D did not, and I am seeing how your D's schools offer the academic acceptance and scholarships before auditioning, whereas my D's schools did not. </p>
<p>The only thing is, what you are saying about private schools vs. public ones was not the observation from my child's list of schools like you are seeing with the ones on your list. That's pretty much why you really have to check with each school because it differs so much. For my D's schools, most were private except Penn State and UMich. But all my D's schools offered the scholarships AND the academic admission AND the BFA admissions all at one time. The scholarship either was in the same mailing or within days of it. There was no difference between the way public or privates on her list did it. </p>
<p>Bottom line is, there sure are many variations on the admissions process for BFA programs, the scholarship process and well, all of it!</p>