Scholarships

Candidates for Academic Scholarships must exhibit excellence in academics and should have completed the entire application process. We offer one full-tuition scholarship with a variety of additional merit-based scholarships.  

• Self-portrait pencil drawing (mandatory)
• Still-life colored pencil drawing
• Landscape acrylic painting
• Watercolor painting
• Mixed media abstract collage
• Ceramic sculpture and/or pottery
• A domestic craft such as knitting, sewing, quilting, etc.
• Printmaking
• Photography

All Art Scholarship portfolio submissions must be uploaded to the Admissions Portal by Friday, October 4, 2024. 

For further details on the Art Scholarship Requirements please visit the Art Scholarship Page.  

Piano

Video Audition Requirements:

• Major and harmonic minor scales and arpeggios (up to and including 4 sharps and 4 flats) to be performed at a comfortable tempo and in at least two octaves.
•  A Bach invention or comparable Baroque selection.
• The first movement of a sonata or higher-level sonatina by Clementi, Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven
• A representative selection from 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries.
• A short passage will be selected for sight-reading at the audition.

*Prior experience accompanying for school and church choirs, or for school musical productions is a plus!

NOTE: No piano method books are permitted for the auditions. (i.e. Faber Method)

Vocal

Video Audition Requirements:

• Vocal exercises to display technique, intonation, and range.
• A memorized selection, in the original language, from the 24 Italian Songs and Arias songbook or classical art song.
• A contrasting classical musical theater selection.

*Students will be asked to demonstrate their aural skills by listening to short melodic phrases and singing them back with correct pitch and rhythm.

NOTE: An accompanist will be provided and students must bring a clean accompaniment. No a cappella auditions or track accompaniment will be permitted.

Instrumental

Video Audition Requirements:

• 3 major scales from the following: G, D, A, F, Bb, Eb.
  • 2-3 octaves, if string
• Two contrasting pieces from the traditional repertoire, appropriate to your particular instrument, that demonstrate your level of technical proficiency and musicianship. Pieces should include works from: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Contemporary, or Jazz musical literature.

*A short passage will be selected for sight-reading.

For further details please visit the Music Scholarship Page.

The Alumnae Association of Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School funds a scholarship that is open to prospective freshman students with familial relationships to graduates or current students of Gwynedd. The scholarship honors the traditions of Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School and the work of the Alumnae Association in supporting and enhancing those traditions. In addition, an important goal of the Legacy Scholarship is to assist an incoming freshman student who might otherwise be unable to attend Gwynedd.

One Legacy Scholarship will be available for award to an incoming member of the freshman class who is accepted by the Admissions Office.

To be considered for the Legacy Scholarship, an applicant must:

• Have a familial relationship to a graduate(s) or current student(s) of Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School (i.e. child, sibling, grandchild, stepchild, niece, or cousin).
• Demonstrate financial need as determined by the Financial Aid Committee, pursuant to the financial aid criteria in effect at the time of application. In order to be considered for the scholarship, all applicants must fill out a Financial Aid Application by the deadline and must re-apply each year. Click Financial Aid for more information.
• Submit the completed Legacy Scholarship Application and a letter of recommendation from one of the applicant’s grade school teachers, to the Gwynedd Admissions Office. Applications are due to the Admissions Office by October 4, 2024.

After applications are submitted and reviewed, some applicants may be asked to complete an interview with members of the Alumnae Association’s Scholarship Committee.

If selected, Legacy Scholars must commit to perform a minimum of twenty (20) hours of service activities on behalf of the Gwynedd Advancement Office during each academic year, along with several other requirements, such as maintaining good grades, providing leadership among peers, and demonstrating good character in the Mercy Spirit.

Mercy Information Packet

Student who are passionate about and choosing to pursue a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) are encouraged to apply for our STEM Scholarship.

The STEM Scholarship will be awarded to 2 students in the Class of 2029. The recipients of the STEM Scholarship will receive automatic entry into the Innovation Scholars program. As a recipient of the STEM Scholarship, students' course loads will be STEM-focused and they will have the opportunity to develop and execute a capstone research project on the topic of their choice over their sophomore, junior & senior years. Students will also work with our STEM Faculty in securing externships in their fields of interest. 

STEM Scholarship recipients will be required to maintain a designated general average over the course of each year and adhere to the Innovation Scholars program requirements, which includes a capstone project and digital portfolio that aligns with the STEM topic about which they are most passionate. 

Students interested in applying for the STEM Scholarship must submit the STEM Scholarship Application by Friday, October 4.