<p>Ok since we're all just twiddling out thumbs waiting for the mail, I have a 'curiosity question'</p>
<p>Say a kid gets an acceptance to a school with a large talent award. The school is assuming they will come and has allocated that money for that student. Then say the student decides not to attend. What happens to that 'award' ?
does it get divided up as an 'extra' bonus among other 'acceptees' or does it, or part of it get offered to waitlisted students or to kids who got accepted but w/o an award?</p>
<p>and when does all that happen?</p>
<p>Curious - it must come up a lot b/c I would think many of the students getting talent awards would be in demand at other schools ats well ( and probably got money there , too)</p>
<p>jbrown - I know in my nephew's case several years ago at Evansville, he was offered a talent award and later on given a slightly larger amount. I believe it was based on the fact that (like you questioned) someone else might not have gone to the program and the money was split among those awarded money.</p>
<p>My son was told by a school that if you are offered a talent scholarship and you don't come, the department loses that money. That's just 1 school. He was offered $12,000/year at Evansville, but is not going so maybe there will be more money for others.</p>
<p>actorsdad - do you mean CCM? That's what I was also told, which I think is a strange/major bummer policy. I'm pretty sure that's not the case at all schools.</p>
<p>It's an interesting question. My suspicion is that it's different for every school. Some departments may be given a budget to work with, and they get to distribute it as they see fit, so if someone turns them down, they can (1) give it to someone on the waiting list, or (2) redistribute it to the students who do agree to attend. But the more likely case is that departments are allowed to offer a range of awards to prospective students. If they choose to attend, they get the award. But if they choose not to attend, the university then doesn't have to spend those dollars, and the department "loses" that money. But since the department didn't really have the money in the first place, it's not really lost. Is that clear?</p>