<p>Note that Bassplayer08 is an international applicant, which could add yet another layer to the financial aid issues. Unlike many schools, Oberlin does award need-based aid to international students in significant amounts, but there may be a different set of institutional grants involved that take a little longer to process. Hence it is possible that some domestic applicants have all their financial aid numbers while Bassplayer08 does not.</p>
<p>Ahhh gotcha, I wasn’t aware of his international status.</p>
<p>I have heard of Oberlin Dean’s Scholarships in the Conservatory going as high as $12K in years past, but it is possible that $10K is this year’s max partially because the endowment has not yet recovered to pre-recession levels and partially because it is in their master plan to slowly reduce their discount rate.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe that Bassplayer08 is female as well as international.</p>
<p>Me and my assumptions! Thanks BassDad for clarifying so much :P</p>
<p>$10K/annual, merit at Boston Con for flute performance</p>
<p>D received 18K annual merit from Eastman SOM–vocal music ed. Chapman award mentioned previously is annual as well.</p>
<p>S received 10K academic merit and 3K music from Belmont. </p>
<p>He hasn’t received his financial aid letter yet. We have another child in college and I’m in graduate school so it’s hard to predict.</p>
<p>I am an undergraduate jazz guitarist, who got no money from NEC (didn’t expect it, as I am a jazz guitarist) or SUNY Purchase, got $500 from NYU, $14000 from Berklee College of Music, and $17700 from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Is there a way I could argue for more from NEC? I’m aware of the vast cutbacks, but the New School gave me a bucketload of money, and right now I’m between those two schools…</p>
<p>NEC is pretty well known for not giving aid to a lot of their students. I don’t know if they consider the New School one of their primary competitors. It can’t hurt to try, but would not be surprised if they tell you that they do not negotiate financial aid awards based on other offers. If, on the other hand, your family’s financial situation has changed for the worse since you filled out the FAFSA and any other aid forms, they might be willing to recalculate your need-based aid.</p>
<p>Vocal performance D received the following offers–</p>
<p>Eastman: 18k merit
Oberlin: 8k merit
CCM: nothing
Roosevelt CCPA: nothing
Rice: nothing
DePaul: “award” letter yet to be received</p>
<p>As others have speculated, I think $$ offers are greatly reduced this year. :(</p>
<p>S got a 7K “Lawrence University Conservatory Alumni Scholarship” and 4K “Lawrence University Grant”. He is a dual degree applicant at Lawrence: BM vocal performance and BA liberal arts. From the letter, the former is apparently merit-based and the latter more need-based. Honestly, this whole “merit” vs. “need” award deal is kind of mystifying. Some schools are very clear in stating that need does not affect merit scholarships. As contradictory as it sounds, others have been very clear in stating that need will influence merit awards. Schools with higher tuition, etc. have not found that we have any “need” whereas others with lower costs do find “need”. Anyway … He is a dual degree applicant at Lawrence: BM vocal performance and BA liberal arts.</p>
<p>Yes, TenorDad, the whole financial aid thing can be mystifying, particularly when you get into interactions between different awards. It can get even worse when a third-party scholarship is involved. Some schools will pull the equivalent amount from their need-based grants, making the third-party scholarship worthless to you. Some will do so only if the third-party award is 100% based on need. Some will not reduce their package at all.</p>
<p>Many schools do not take the EFC from the FAFSA as your baseline, but either use the CSS PROFILE or have their own forms, or both. A few claim to meet 100% of demonstrated need (as they calculate it), many impose a gap between what they figure you need and what they provide in aid.</p>
<p>The only way I have found to make sense of it all is to try to calculate a total cost before aid at each school (be careful to compare apples to apples here, the numbers published on websites may or may not include certain line items like travel expense, books and incidentals, or may give a lowball estimate for those items) and then subtract the amount of grant aid (i.e. ignoring the amounts from loans and work study) to calculate the actual cost to your family at each school.</p>
<p>It appears Jacobs is starting to release scholarship info as evidenced by post #20 here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/880642-indiana-jacobs-school-financial-aid-letter.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/880642-indiana-jacobs-school-financial-aid-letter.html</a></p>
<p>14k merit scholarship to SFCM!</p>
<p>We got a letter from Duquesne saying dd has won a merit scholarship for her dept. (organ), but no details! Has anyone else heard from Duquesne about merit awards or know when we will hear?</p>
<p>Since dd is a dual enrollment, we were very surprised by this!</p>
<p>Congrats. You may want to give it a day or two and then call. This could be a prelude to the actual awards letter or online notification. It’s also possible the notification went out with only partial info.</p>
<p>D: $10,000 academic; $10,000 music, $500 Baptist, Mercer University</p>
<p>Musicmom,</p>
<p>We don’t seem to have Mercer on the list for your daughter yet. What would her major be if she attended there?</p>
<p>Jazz performance (piano) S received the following:</p>
<p>Indiana: $10k
Temple: $7,500
VCU: 1/2 in-state tuition</p>
<p>The Indiana award is the Premier Young Artist Award, and I see posts from last year indicating that it was $15k. Is it down this year, or are some people still being offered $15k for this award?</p>