Affording the conservatory degree

MTMommma
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 07:00:19 +0000

We are from CA and were in the same boat as you guys- our FAFSA contribution was like $47K (whatever!!). But, our daughter got a big talent scholarship from the School of Music at Arizona State. Paired with her academic scholarship, her OOS tuition is covered. We are pretty much only paying for room and board. She is musical theatre, but her roommate that plays the sax got about the same as her. Lots of schools have online calculators for their guaranteed academic scholarships. You plug in the GPA & test scores and you can see how much you would get. That makes it easy to either rule out schools or consider them. The thing about the CSUs and the UCs is that they give little to no aid. So, they may not be the cheapest option.