Scholarships for architecture & design major?

Paying for College Scholarships
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My daughter will be a freshman at MassArt this September 2025, majoring in architecture & design. Where can I find scholarships? She’s graduating hs with a 4.2 gpa.

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The best scholarships are those awarded by the colleges, and to incoming freshmen.

You might be able to find some smaller, one time local scholarships. Have your daughter ask her school counselor.

It might be a little late to apply for the upcoming academic year, but check.

You have “national merit scholarship” as a tag. Is your daughter a national merit finalist?

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When your daughter was accepted did they send the financial aid package with her acceptance or in a separate email? Did you check her spam folder?

Did your family fill out the FAFSA? You can still fill out an application, but the financial aid offices usually budget most of their funds for the students by the time of acceptance.
In my experience, the art-based schools are very expensive and have limited funds for scholarships but it doesn’t hurt to ask.

As for the national merit scholarship, there are certain schools that fully fund national merit winners. Our son chose not to attend those schools so his award was less than $3000 a year from the national merit foundation.

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Agree with what already has been said. I would also suggest connecting with the person at your students high school to see if there is still an opportunity to apply for any of the local/town ones that are often awarded through the school - though being the end of April I would guess that the deadline to apply for most of these has passed.

Your town Rotary, Masons, Moose, VFW, (other fraternal org’s) will often have scholarship programs as well.

You can explore websites like scholarship America and such but IME looking at those sites a couple of years ago it’s basically a way for them to get personal information (nothing sensitive) so they can then sell lists to other organizations to spam you. Yes, there are scholarships listed but searching for ones that apply to your student and realistic to receive is another matter entirely.

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