Interlochen-financial aid for summer camp

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Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:50:56 +0000

Interlochen has both merit scholarships and financial aid. They do have full-tuition merit scholarships and all applicants are automatically considered for those (i.e. there is no separate or additional application process.) Additionally, if you want to be considered for financial aid, you need to request consideration (I think this is a checkbox on the application form.) They will ask your parents to submit tax returns to be considered for financial aid.

If the $2,000 you were given was a merit scholarship and it’s not enough for you to be able to attend, you can ask if you can still apply for additional financial aid (if you haven’t done so already). What other woodwinds have paid to attend won’t have any bearing on you; there are many (probably “mostly”) full-pay campers at Interlochen. Full scholarships are very rare. (FWIW, my son plays saxophone, attended Interlochen, and won one of the Fine Arts Awards, the only one in the jazz program to win one, but wasn’t offered a full merit for the following summer.)

One thing I can also suggest is to look around for local scholarships. Many school systems or local organizations have scholarship competitions for summer programs like Interlochen, Tanglewood, etc.