<p>My daughter and her friend went off to art studies about 8 years ago. Maybe there are more scholarships now; I don’t know. I have no idea what the friend’s grades or SAT scores were. I do know that she was an excellent artist, and that she was serious about art. When I asked her mother if her daughter has received a large scholarship (I assumed she had), her mother said no, that her husband had to take a job as a contractor in Afghanistan in order to pay for MICA. Her father was already retired ten years earlier from federal government service.</p>
<p>This is more a matter of what perceives as “generous”. Asking students to pay even 50% of a $40,000 a year tuition bill to study art is not generous in my opinion.</p>