Colleges offering merit scholarships which reduce out-of-state tuition?

[Anonymous]

Someone told me that her child received a merit scholarship from a public university in PA (Clairion) which reduces the amount of her DC's out-of-state tuition to almost that of an in-state student. Does anyone know of other universities in the mid-Atlantic area which offer something similar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone told me that her child received a merit scholarship from a public university in PA (Clairion) which reduces the amount of her DC's out-of-state tuition to almost that of an in-state student. Does anyone know of other universities in the mid-Atlantic area which offer something similar?

Oops -- that should be Clarion

[Anonymous]

Not mid Atlantic but a friend got a nice award at Michigan.

[Anonymous]

I would guess most state universities do. I was offered large merit scholarships by William and Mary and U Delaware as an out of state applicant. I knew plenty of people at my state school who were out of state but had sizable merit scholarships. Granted, this was a while ago, but I'm sure at least some of those programs and scholarships exist.

[Anonymous]

The Merit Award is in effect a tuition discount. Almost all schools offer some kind of tuition discount, which is subsidized by the school's endowment. Typically the larger the endowment the larger discount (or Merit Award). Federal law now requires a net price calculator on most school web sites. You can input your financials and your child's grades and scores and get some idea (not entirely accurate, just an idea) of what the actual cost would be. Sorry this post turned into a treatise on financial aid. Hope it's helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Merit Award is in effect a tuition discount. Almost all schools offer some kind of tuition discount, which is subsidized by the school's endowment. Typically the larger the endowment the larger discount (or Merit Award). Federal law now requires a net price calculator on most school web sites. You can input your financials and your child's grades and scores and get some idea (not entirely accurate, just an idea) of what the actual cost would be. Sorry this post turned into a treatise on financial aid. Hope it's helpful.

Merit aid is without regard to financial need. Financial aid is related to financial need. The OP asked about merit aid rather than financial aid. While there are certainly schools that provide merit aid to attract desireable students, it is not all schools to all students (at least based on our experience with a student currently in college who was offered merit aid by one school but not the one s/he is attending).

[Anonymous]

Last year my daughter, as an out-of-state early action candidate, was awarded merit scholarships to Miami of Ohio and University of Vermont as well to a private college - Providence College. All were significant awards - she was a good all around student with considerable volunteer activities.

[Anonymous]

Not mid-Atlantic, but the Unviersity of South Carolina used to give very small scholarships (like $100 a year) to out of state students, the reason being that if you had any merit scholarship at all, you immediately got knocked down to in-state tuition. I went through three years of grad school with such an arrangement.