Colleges with major scholarships

[Anonymous]

I saw that Vanderbilt has three highly selective scholarships that pay full cost of attendance for 250 lucky students. It’s Vanderbilt, so I imagine competition is fierce.

Does anyone know of other colleges that offer students either half or full scholarships? I’m particularly interested in colleges that are top 20-100.

[Anonymous]

USC, Tulane, Emory, UNC, Duke

[Anonymous]

What are the stats OP?
Depending on which school specifically, the kid might need something like 1550, 3.9uw, NMF, and a ton of AP's.
Top 20/30 schools are hard to get into alone, single-digit acceptance rates, never mind a half or full ride to go along with it.
A school like GWU further down the list gives a lot of money and you won't need tippy top scores to get merit, 1450 - 1500 will do.

[Anonymous]

Add WashU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw that Vanderbilt has three highly selective scholarships that pay full cost of attendance for 250 lucky students. It’s Vanderbilt, so I imagine competition is fierce.

Does anyone know of other colleges that offer students either half or full scholarships? I’m particularly interested in colleges that are top 20-100.

Most colleges offer major scholarships (i.e. full ride) - but those scholarships are often very difficult to get.

[Anonymous]

Most SLACs in the 20-100 range give substantial merit awards to most students. Mine got $30k per year at Connecticut College, and I think the top award there is $34K. Tuition is currently around $64K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the stats OP?
Depending on which school specifically, the kid might need something like 1550, 3.9uw, NMF, and a ton of AP's.
Top 20/30 schools are hard to get into alone, single-digit acceptance rates, never mind a half or full ride to go along with it.
A school like GWU further down the list gives a lot of money and you won't need tippy top scores to get merit, 1450 - 1500 will do.

Thanks, I am aware of all the merit opportunities. I was specifically curious about colleges that offer scholarships, although I should have specified non-need scholarships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the stats OP?
Depending on which school specifically, the kid might need something like 1550, 3.9uw, NMF, and a ton of AP's.
Top 20/30 schools are hard to get into alone, single-digit acceptance rates, never mind a half or full ride to go along with it.
A school like GWU further down the list gives a lot of money and you won't need tippy top scores to get merit, 1450 - 1500 will do.

Thanks, I am aware of all the merit opportunities. I was specifically curious about colleges that offer scholarships, although I should have specified non-need scholarships.

Merit opportunities are scholarships. They are synonyms.

[Anonymous]

NC State - Park Scholarship. It's a relatively "new" scholarship - established in 1996.

Emphasis is service, leadership, and scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the stats OP?
Depending on which school specifically, the kid might need something like 1550, 3.9uw, NMF, and a ton of AP's.
Top 20/30 schools are hard to get into alone, single-digit acceptance rates, never mind a half or full ride to go along with it.
A school like GWU further down the list gives a lot of money and you won't need tippy top scores to get merit, 1450 - 1500 will do.

Thanks, I am aware of all the merit opportunities. I was specifically curious about colleges that offer scholarships, although I should have specified non-need scholarships.

Merit opportunities are scholarships. They are synonyms.

+1
Merit aid is not need-based aid. Hence the word "merit."

[Anonymous]

Boston College gives a few very competitive scholarships that pay for everything.

[Anonymous]

Denver
Kansas
Minnesota
Michigan State
New Mexico
West Virginia

[Anonymous]

The vast majority of schools in the U.S. offer merit scholarships to qualified applicants. The ones that don't (don't have to), with limited exceptions, are the top 20-25 schools (as rated by USNWR).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the stats OP?
Depending on which school specifically, the kid might need something like 1550, 3.9uw, NMF, and a ton of AP's.
Top 20/30 schools are hard to get into alone, single-digit acceptance rates, never mind a half or full ride to go along with it.
A school like GWU further down the list gives a lot of money and you won't need tippy top scores to get merit, 1450 - 1500 will do.

Thanks, I am aware of all the merit opportunities. I was specifically curious about colleges that offer scholarships, although I should have specified non-need scholarships.

Merit = Scholarships, Non-Need Aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of schools in the U.S. offer merit scholarships to qualified applicants. The ones that don't (don't have to), with limited exceptions, are the top 20-25 schools (as rated by USNWR).

But some of these do have a very small number of highly selective scholarships (different from a standard merit "discount" based on just being a strong student in the pool).

Schools in the T20:
Duke has full tuition/R&B scholarships
JHU has a 2/3 tuition scholarship and a full tuition engineering scholarship
U of Chicago has some merit-based scholarships but don't appear to approach full or half tuition
Rice has some merit-based scholarships but don't appear to approach full or half tuition
Vanderbilt has full tuition merit scholarships
Notre Dame has a $25k merit scholarship (about 40% of tuition)