Does Harvard offers scholarships or financial aid?
Yes. Financial aid is based entirely on need. You may fill out a financial aid application along with your admissions application. There are no music scholarships or financial aid based on specific skills; rather, Harvard College admissions will make their decision based on the strength of all your application materials. If you are accepted, you will receive an offer of aid (grants, work/study, loans) based on your family’s financial need. Can I concentrate in music and something else as well? Yes. You can be a joint concentrator and choose two academic fields: music and psychology, or music and math, for example. If you joint concentrate you are required to write a senior thesis combining both areas of study. You can also study music as a secondary field, which requires five music courses. Specifics are outlined in “undergraduate Information” on this site. You needn’t be a music concentrator to take music courses, as the Department’s General Education, Interdisciplinary, and introduct
