Which Schools Give the Best Merit Aid? Another Freakonomics Post

My daughter had excellent grades and a good but not great SAT and her offer from UArts was $20,000. She definitely considered it as a strong contender but ended up choosing Hartt which sadly doesn’t offer merit aid but fortunately did give her a talent scholarship.

My D is a junior at UArts, and she’s experienced the same as MTVT2015. I believe they received the upper amount of scholarships/grants. They stated that D’s was based on talent and academics.

I know several people in the past few years who did not attend UArts because they did not get that generous amount of aid, and D knows of others who attend who also did not get nearly as much. (Not that it’s a big topic of conversation or that D asks. It’s not, and she doesn’t; she just knows of a few who offered the info to her.)

@goinplacesmomsD , I would not hesitate to have your other D audition at UArts if she’s interested. You never know what they may offer. We had it on D’s list as a reach both artistically and financially, but we had heard that the possibility for generosity existed there, so D went for it, and we’re so glad she did!