<p>Pace University has the Pforzheimer (sp?) Honors College, which offers very attractive scholarships to students with strong grades and test scores. Many other colleges will award merit scholarships to students with excellent grades and test scores, even if they don’t specifically target National Merit finalists. Congratulations! High scores like that put her into a strong position, and increase her options considerably. Lots of selective liberal arts colleges have excellent theater programs, but the smaller ones tend to be stingy about aid, and will only award it to stand-outs. If money is a major consideration, my strongest recommendation (and one of the hardest ones to enforce with a teenager) is not to get your heart too set on any one school. Auditioned programs are unpredictable and have lower acceptance rates than the Ivy League. Even more heartbreaking can be the acceptance letter with no accompanying scholarship offer. Find a range of schools that have appealing programs, locations, and curricula, and one of them will undoubtedly come through. You should certainly start with the big names, where she has good prospects, but then add an assortment of BA programs and affordable (ie. public, usually) universities.</p>