Theatre Scholarships

Hi,

I know this technically belongs on the student board, but I want answers and no one reads the student board. I'm a HS senior, my parents are lower middle class, I have a large family, my GPA is a middling 3.6 and though my SAT's are impressive, I'm terrified of loans and or community college. So I'm frantically searching for scholarships among ineffectual sites and none of the crap listed is relevant to the average human being, let alone person in my position. I thought a site full of theatre people might yield better results.

I am looking for theatre or writing scholarships that people have had success with. I've written two plays and a bunch of assorted essays and short stories, I'm well versed in theatre history, I've had great success with competitive acting (I just won both categories I entered in a state festival; actually, anything competitive. I'm overly competitive.) and I'm most likely going to UMD or UMBC. Carnegie Mellon is my reach and Towson is my safety. Thank you so much :)

....(goes to read every goddamned Ayn Rand book)

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If I go to Carnegie, dramaturgy. Anywhere else... I'm deciding between acting and directing, so probably gen. theatre going into 1st year.

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I hope to God they have programs like that; I'm probably going to check up on it when I visit the schools. Thanks so much :)

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Yeah, all of the websites (including those)I have seen are very school specific or... it's just very school specific, or you need to get your school to join some league and bring a thousand dollars or something.

I am looking for a contest; theatre contest, essay contest, etc.. Something non school specific that I can win with relative ease based on talent, hard work, passion and spunk. I really wish my school were a member of the whole "Jimmies" thing, because that kind of contest is where I find gold.

At any rate, I sat down with my school counselor (who I love!) and we vowed to get me where I need to be!

Thanks everyone!

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