Music Merit Scholarship - our experience

<p>I have read on here about people looking for scholarship money based on musical talent, and I wanted to share our experience in case it's helpful to anyone. My son is a talented musician but is not majoring in music. He applied for a music minor and auditioned for scholarship consideration at a large public U. He was awarded a scholarship equal to approximately 1/4 of tuition with the stipulation that he take private lessons, participate in up to three ensembles (he was invited to join the top groups) and demonstrate leadership, as well as maintaining a certain grade point average in music classes and overall. He plays an instrument that is often in short supply. We felt this award was definitely worth the time and effort put into practicing and auditioning, as he wanted to continue performing in college anyway.</p>

<p>Terrific! Our daughter did the same thing, but her award was much smaller at the school where she matriculated. Had she chosen her second choice school (an OOS public) she had a much better offer both from the Iniversity as a whole (scholarship plus instate tuition rate), and would have gotten an additional $1000 from the music department.</p>

<p>She also plays an endangered instrument…actually two!</p>

<p>Congratulations to your son. Our DD loved doing her music in college, took lessons and played in the orchestra for all four years. Also did some community orchestra things. And continues to play in an orchestra now (almost four years after graduation).</p>