Yes, D is happily at UArts. It wasn’t a full ride (which I understand is tuition and R and B) at either UArts or IWU; it was full tuition with a combination of merit and talent. She was not NMF; she never took the PSAT.
Belmont is one of the schools that does allow stacking of scholarships, and the Dean made it clear that any outside scholarships would not be deducted from the aide given by Belmont. D didn’t get in artistically, so I have no personal experience with how generous they are, but it sounded like they could be.
I think finances can be a crapshoot, especially if academic awards aren’t spelled out in detail on the websites, and even then, because schools sometimes offer more than what is indicated there. When we created D’s list, we researched how generous schools seem to be with female MTs, and D only included a few schools that weren’t known to have the possibility of being generous. (One was NYU, which she knew that she wouldn’t be able to attend financially, but she kept it on just to see if she’d get in.) Even then, we anxiously awaited financial results, and, at the end, were able to negotiate to get the cost down even more at two schools, one of them being UArts.