Music Scholarships

compmom
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:24:49 +0000

Just to help clarify terminology: a double degree is different from a double major. Here is a good essay on different ways to study music:
[Double Degrees | Peabody Conservatory](http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html)

Is your son thinking of getting a BM and BA in 5 years? That would be a double degree. Oberlin, Lawrence and Bard, for instance, offer that. At Bard, BM conservatory students are required to get a BA as well, in another subject.

Tufts and Harvard have double degree programs with NEC (BA/BM for Tufts, BA/MM for Harvard). There are others.

Conservatories that are not affiliated with a college/university tend not to have much financial aid but do have some merit aid. Conservatories/music schools that are on a college campus or part of a college/university institution (whether on a separate campus or not) have the same financial aid as that institution, and some also have merit aid. And, colleges/universities have financial aid, and some also have merit aid, as you know.

Merit aid will vary tremendously.

Have you done the financial aid EFC calculators on the sites of any of these schools?

Also be aware that often merit aid is simply subtracted from financial aid, meaning it will not add to the aid amount. Same thing is true of outside scholarships.

This looks like a great list, and as far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) all these schools would have financial aid. None of them are freestanding conservatories. My only question is whether it is “short” enough for a student who is going to be doing auditions. My daughter was pretty stressed with four audition schools (plus two non-audition).