Will private art schools pay full need for students with low income families?

With regard to schooling, please do avoid those private, overly priced For-profit schools such as devry, art institute, fashion institute of design, academy of art university, strayer, university of phoenix, capella and others. Their course credits usually do NOT transfer to other schools, even if the for-profit school is regionally accredited as opposed to only nationally accredited.

Please instead do consider the more affordable (and usually more reputable) community college and/or the state-public university (or even the county vo-tech adult school) as long as the program is accredited within the industry.

Pertaining to obtaining grants or scholarship money, it may depend, in part, on the family's income but perhaps also re: (regarding) scholastic grades, community service performed, and/or other after-school clubs of which the student participated.

How about talking to your school counselor about possible scholarships or grant money that may be available for students from low-income families.

The college(s) of which you're interested should have a financial aid (or "office of the bursar") department for more information, too.

This government site may have more info re: possible financial assistance with college, including those from low-income families: http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Benefits.shtml

This site is supposed to have accredited programs in art and design (though please still forgo those for-profit schools, and there is no guarantee that the student will get work afterwards): http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/ and can click "directory lists" on the left-hand side of the page and then can click "accredited institutional members" and then scroll down the page and type one's state of residence into search.

For U.S. colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

General career info: http://www.bls.gov/ooh and can search.

No. They will just sign you up for really huge loans. They give no actual non-repayable aid. The for-profit art schools are in the business of making money. Only schools like Harvard are need blind.

The private art schools are bad news for low income people. They have the worst graduation rate and the worst loan default rate of all the schools. And remember that an art degree almost never actually leads to a job.

Going to one og those schools will just leave you poor all your life.

This would depend on each individual school, and you'd have to check the information for each school yourself.

I wouldn't count on much, though. Only schools with huge endowment funds (think Ivy League) can help support most needy students with private financial aid. Most other schools rely on Federal financial aid to support needy students.