<p>My D received her acceptance letter yesterday. But, she will not be able to attend without a substantial scholarship/aid package. The letter said that she was awarded a small talent scholarship, but that the actual financial aid letter will come soon. I went to the UHartford website and noticed that there is an academic scholarshp for $15,000 for which she meets the GPA/SAT criteria. However, the website also says that Hartt students are NOT eligible for academic scholarships - only talent scholarships. Does anyone have any experience with this?</p>
<p>Very unfortunately Hartt students are NOT at all elgible for merit money no matter how large, small or nonexistent their talent award is. Several parents complained at the orientation last year but there are no exceptions. This is not common for schools, most of them award talent and/or merit separately but Hartt does not. You aren’t even able to reject the talent money and just take merit (which would probably be considerably more).</p>
<p>Now, this is NOT good news! Does anyone know the range of the talent scholarhips? Actually, we are visiting Hartt in 2 days , and so I suppose this information is timely. It is certainly a question I will ask!</p>
<p>It would be interesting to find out the reasoning behind this denial of academic scholarships . . .I can only think of silly, generalized opinions of music/theatre students <code>.</code> .` .</p>
<p>Of course, isn’t this the same as the policy at Boco?</p>
<p>Christie2</p>
<p>At Hartt scholarships are talent based and can reach up to full tuition, however the full tuition scholarships (if any offered) typically go to instrument majors, or so I’ve been told. I was also eligible for the 15,000 academic scholarship, but instead I received 7,000 from Hartt.</p>
<p>I know there were several students last year that received no talent or merit money. It was felt particularly unfair to those offered no talent money to be eligible for the merit money they qualified for but there was no way to get it. It appeared that most of the larger amounts were also given to the males. Just an observation.</p>
<p>Received acceptance today, but no mention of a scholarship at all :(. Does that mean there will be no scholarships at all??</p>
<p>I believe, and this is what I perceivedw Erin Arrison at admissions to mean when I called in regards to the financial aid packet, is that if your acceptance letter did not mention any talent scholarship, you will not be receiving one.</p>
<p>Yes that is what It means. The scholarship offers would be with the acceptance letters. My D did not get one either. Oh well that is the chance you take when applying for out of state schools, just helps you stay on the path to the school you are suppose to be at.</p>
<p>Sharkgirl2759…do talent scholarshis have to do with applying out of state?</p>
<p>Congrats to those accepted.</p>
<p>Just a couple of points.</p>
<p>UHartford/Hartt is a private, not public institution, so in state versus out of state matters not in allocation of talent awards, nor in the cost of attendance. </p>
<p>The fact that UHartford academic awards cannot be combined with Hartt talent awards is clearly indicated within the Hartt scholarship general info and the UHartford financial aid/scholarship pages.</p>
<p>Son is an '07 music performance grad. To answer the query regarding ranges of talent awards (at least within the music disciplines) son saw a range within his classmates of non-existent to full tuition scholarship. The talent awards are allocated based on pecking order within the audition pool. It appears that the Hartt policy is to give the most money to the top candidates. </p>
<p>I have no experience to relate to the other programs, but the assumption is the Hartt divisions of MT, Dance and Theater operate under the same parameters.</p>
<p>There are other institutions that may distribute talent monies differently, giving a lesser amount of $ to a greater number of candidates.</p>
<p>Hope that may clarify things a bit.</p>
<p>Curious about what you have decided? Did you choose Hartt even though the scholarships are low? My D received a scholarship but it’s not enough to offset the tuition. We are having a hard time justifying $80,000 in loans for a BFA in actor training. It tears me up to walk away from the conservatory, but…Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Did you ask for more money? It’s always a school-by-school and case-by-case basis, but we asked (not at Hartt) and got a lot more. If you haven’t asked, I’d suggest at least trying.</p>
<p>My son will not be going to Hartt. It is the only school that did ot offer him grants / scholarships.</p>
<p>If it makes anyone feel better, they only gave out scholarships to about 30% of applicants for the entire school. The average scholarship was $7,000 (what I got), and the most was $20,000 to a Trombone player.</p>
<p>Was that $7000 or the year or per semester? Congratulations on your decision.</p>
<p>I got $20,000 for MT…
Even with that much, Hartt is still too much for me. Which breaks my heart, I’d love to go there.</p>
<p>I stand corrected! Congrats dancerr625, too bad you can’t attend! You’ll be missed!</p>