That’s true, @BassTheatreMom! What I wish, though, is that the private schools merit aid was more “cut and dried” like the public ones, since you can only audition for a certain number of schools. I feel like in our case we were correct, but with a little higher scores I think many of the private schools would have come out better financially. (Also my daughter elected to not do any prescreen schools, and some of the schools requiring prescreens looked like they may be better with merit aid.She just couldn’t figure out how to manage to film and send decent prescreens since she is not currently in high school or involved in any theatre or dance.) She has gotten some very good scholarships at regional publics (I was very surprised how much, actually) and a “yes” at one of them so far.