Royal Academy or Royal College

[allasion]

Hi all and hope all is well!
I hope I am in the right place and hope you can help.
My daughter was offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music Junior department. Question - what are the chances of getting a bursary (means tested)? How to go about it?
And secondly, she was also offered an Associate Member place at Royal College of Music. Question - what are the chances of getting a bursary (means tested)? How to go about it?
Which one to choose?
If any of you have experience with either, I would love to hear. It is time-sensitive as we need to reply and I don't want to choose one over the other if I wont be able to sustain financially.
Thank you!

@allasion, try posting in the extra curricular section. There will be lots of pp who are music teachers, and or with DC at both RA and AC.

Unless there is a particular teacher your child wants to study with I'd go with the one that is easiest to get to!

Each has an allocation of bursaries from the government through the Music and Dance Scheme and obviously the rules are the same for each Institution.

They also also have their own bursaries but I think the rules generally mirror those of the MDS, so it's unlikely to make much difference.

The chance of a bursary will depend upon your income and whatever else each of those places say they take into account if they have additional donations for specific candidates e.g. bassoon players from state schools.

It would be worth asking to have this moved to the Extra-Curricular page where a number of music parents hang out.

Agree with above. The funding available is not a scholarship but a bursary so completely dependant on income, nothing else. Choose by which one she likes more.

Thank you all and thank you Wilkolampshade for the clarification on scholarship vs bursary!