Posted on: December 22, 2009
I recently had the opportunity to talk with some local high school music students about ways to increase their visibililty with colleges.  Students need to realize that there is alot of financial aid available from colleges but that colleges don’t always have the means to find the students that fit the requirements for that financial aid.  It is up to the students to make their information available to as many colleges as possible and to take an active role in contacting colleges that fit their requirements.

Posted on: December 14, 2009
One of the best kept secrets in the field of fine arts is the amount of scholarship aid available to students who wish to pursue their love of the arts at a school of higher learning.  Many colleges and universities that don’t offer a major in music have scholarships available to students who wish to enroll and continue their love of the arts.  I firmly believe that there is almost as much scholarship money available in the field of fine arts as there is in athletics.  The reason that we don’t hear about these scholarship opportunities is because the colleges don’t have a recruiting budget to aggressively pursue high school students who fit their needs.  Many of the scholarships were bequeathed to the colleges as endowments that stipulated that all of the money had to be used for scholarships.  This left little or no money to pay for recruiting expenses.  Thus, many colleges simply wait until the students arrive on campus and then award the scholarships.