Merit scholarships

old_music_prnt
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:22:43 +0000

The thing with merit aid or even financial aid is when they say “70% of our students get aid”, they aren’t lying. What they aren’t saying is a lot of that is nominal, like 1500 a year. When a school costs 80, 90k, a 1500 merit awards is nothing.And whether said or unsaid, Merit aid is often tied to need, some schools are honest enough to admit it, others deny it but in fact that that. This is especially true at highly competitive schools where the level is typically very high, to be able to help talented kids who are from less well off backgrounds they put a needs test on merit (and this I know for a fact, my son has been told this by teachers at programs he knows, that unless a kid is some already known quanity, like a kid already soloing with major orchestras, it is tied to need.). There are also exceptions, you are with the star teacher at the school they may be able to get big money, it all depends.