<p>There is a huge difference between scholarships for music majors…and music scholarships for non-majors. In our experience, the larger scholarships for non-majors were by audition (Davidson and Skidmore). Some schools offered smaller scholarships to non-majors without an audition.</p>
<p>Our kid got a $750 a year performance scholarship from Santa Clara University. In addition, she had her private lessons at no cost for all four years (not always the case with non-majors). She was required to play on the orchestra to get these…but she wanted to play in the orchestra so that was not a problem.</p>
<p>There are plenty of schools with music departments who offer scholarships to their students who are majors. DS, a music performance major, received scholarships from Boston University, Peabody Conservatory, Duquesne, University of Hartford Hartt School. None of those schools offered much in music scholarships to kids wanting to continue music who were not music majors.</p>
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<p>Michigan has fewer undergrads than UNC has.</p>
<p>Frankly, the size of the school matter little if the student comes in with AP credits allowing skipping gen ed classes. The student takes most of his classes in the college of music. </p>
<p>who cares what is going on in the other buildings.</p>
<p>Is the OPs kid a music major? I thought not. </p>
<p>I don’ know, but UNC is one of the places you can actually double major without killing yourself. The BA, which you can structure with performance emphasis, is only 43 hours and even their BM is only 66.</p>
<p>In relation to such scholarships, I have received acceptance and an academic and talent based scholarship to attend college in Fall this year. If I find the course is not right for me and want to transfer (obviously I find this unlikely), or for whatever reason have to return home, would I have to pay back the cost of those scholarships for leaving the uni?</p>
<p>Congratulations on your awards!</p>
<p>That would be uncommon. There are some special scholarships where you promise as a condition of accepting the scholarship to work for the entity granting you the scholarship for a specified amount of time after graduation and if you don’t fulfill that, then they make you pay them back, or worse, force you to work for them ( I think technically the army can do that.)</p>
<p>Ordinarily, all that happens is you lose the scholarship when you leave the school, since the money is coming from them. If you stay at the school, but change your major, you can lose any scholarships that are given by a particular dept or given for a special major. </p>
<p>When you formally accept a scholarship, you should have a sort of contract to sign, that lays out all the terms and conditions. What you need to do to have it renew each year, whether it can be cancelled for disciplinary reasons, if you can defer or suspend it for a year or 2 to pursue other interests, etc.</p>
<p>My daughter did not have a “contract” with her small performance award. She was written a nice letter each term telling her she had been selected for this award. </p>
<p>Even the first semester? She didn’t have to respond to accept it and read something laying out the terms? Was there one of those little boxes that say “by responding to this I agree that I have read and agree to…”? Both the academic and music scholarships at my daughter’s college had ‘contracts.’ But maybe contract is too technical a word for it. One could manage to ignore all the terms and such, just bypass the reading. Or maybe D’s school is just nit-picky and not all schools go through rigamarole. Then there was the one-time local scholarship.The high school administered those. That didn’t have any procedure to accept it, but the school made them write thank you notes to the donors before they disbursed.</p>
<p>"“Is the OPs kid a music major? I thought not.”"</p>
<p>I wasnt sure. If not, then the point I made still applies…if a student is coming in with ap credits that allow skipping gen ed classes, then he pretty much will be spending most of his classes in one smallish area of a large campus unless he chooses another major/minor that is unrelated and is on the other side of campus. </p>
<p>The OP dismissed UMich as being too big, yet expressed interest in UNC which actually has a larger undergrad population. </p>
<p>Celeste, yes, even the first term. She got a letter saying she had been selected. Hers was more like getting a letter for deans list. It was not a scholarship that was renewable for any number of terms. It was awarded term by term, and she happened to get it every term. Her school gave free instrument lessons to her as long as she played in the orchestra. She was not a music major.</p>
<p>DS was a music major. He received a music scholarship, and had to accept it. But there was no “contract”. The provisions of the scholarship continuation were outlined in the initial award when he accepted it. He had to remain a music major, and have a 3.0 GPA. Renewable all four years.</p>
<p>So the term contract is too strict. But still there were some minor provisions about renewal requirements and he had to accept it. D’s school has credit hour requirements-12/semester to disburse, 30/yr required for renewal, and student agrees to abide by code of conduct and a couple of things like that. It referred her to another longer document that lays out more complete terms, like how one can defer the scholarship, and specifics of how one might make up any deficiencies over summer term for renewal- what is and is not accepted. Noted that the portion that NMSC administers has to be renewed through them according to whatever requirements they have. Very detailed stuff. If it were the sort of thing one might have to repay, it would have been in there.</p>
<p>At U Michigan the music majors are secluded in the wooded north campus area. Have to take a bus or bike to get down to main campus for any classes there. They have their own commons. Some engineering/CS buildings there and art/architecture.</p>
<p>^ Most of the freshmen at UMich live in the North Campus anyway. So taking the bus to main campus is inevitably and it is not such a big deal for a 5-10min bus ride. All engineering buildings (except one very old one) are in the North Campus and I would say 90% of the North Campus academic buildings are for engineering.</p>
<p>U Michigan has about 9,000 undergrads living on-campus. 6,000 freshmen and 3,000 upper classmen. You can see this from the CDS. </p>
<p>North campus has some grad student apartments and 4 undergrad complexes. The smallest one is for upperclassmen. Of the other 3, 2 together house 1240 freshmen, and the third, housing 1270, is mixed. So I don’t see how it is possible that most freshmen live there. </p>
<p>I guess things have been pretty cramped while south quad on main campus is being renovated. Did they turn all the doubles into triples? It’s supposed to reopen this fall, so the situation should be better.</p>
<p>I don’t think the bus ride is such a big deal, but it was for my D. She’s spoiled and likes to walk or bike, but worried about biking that distance in the winter. She didn’t want to deal with it (and it was too expensive anyway, so that was a relief.)</p>
<p>Yeah, the music building is off to itself on the west side of north campus and the large cluster of engineering buildings takes up most of the rest that isn’t housing…</p>
<p>I know the dorm situation at UMich. I used to live on campus 12 years ago and my D is going there this year. Baits 2 has been closed and Bursley is for freshmen. They have also rennovated Northwood 3 and make it for undergrad. 97% of freshmen live on campus and around 70% of them live in the North Campus. Most of the remaining 30% or so freshmen live in Main Campus or Hill area are part of the residential programs. In other words, if a freshmen is not in a residential program, it is most likely live in the North Campus. The reopening of South Quad will help but it will be mostly for Honors Housing.
The Music school is at the one side of the North Campus that is a short walk to the dorms and to the bus stop near the entrance of North Campus. It is actually quite convenient.</p>
<p>I guess I’m asking if they have really overloaded the dorms up there that much.
Northwood3 + Bursley together technically hold less than 2000. </p>
<p>I didn’t know Baits was closed too. It seemed to be open when we visited last year and I hiked around up there.The lots were full at the time. Are they renovating that too? So where are they putting the other 2000 freshmen up there?</p>
<p>Sorry, I mixed it up. Baits II is for freshmen while Bursley is for all. Baits I has been closed permanently a couple years ago while they reopened Baits II after renovation. There are also North I & II. I have also seen students live in NW4 & 5. I was puzzled by the 70% freshmen in North Campus figure when I first saw it on the web and at the information session. Perhaps it was from before the closing of Baits. As of now, I think the NC housing capacity can only hold 60-65% of freshmen unless they put more students to NW4 and NW5. Those are the worst housing options for undergrad (but perfect for grad student and research fellows with family).</p>
<p>I see South Quad holds 1200, but since they are closing West Quad to renovate just as they reopen South Quad, it doesn’t really help. Overall, they have a housing crunch there. But in the end it’ll all be wonderful. They did one of the others a couple years ago too, right? East? Maybe they let the kids set up tents in the woods or live in their cars? I’m actually baffled where they put everyone.</p>
<p>Here is the link about 70% freshmen live in North Campus:
<a href=“Michigan Housing”>http://housing.umich.edu/north-campus</a>
While another page say 60%:
<a href=“Michigan Housing”>http://www.housing.umich.edu/node/744</a></p>
<p>I hope and I think the 60% one to be more current as there is less dorm space in the North Campus and the reopening of dorms in the main campus. One of the reason for having most freshmen in the North Campus was due to the renovation of dorms in the central and hill area in the last several years.</p>
<p>My DS definitely had a contract with his music scholarship award.</p>