Did anyone get more than $30K in merit aid at private college?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. He is a URM. Its hard for him to turn down an Ivy.

DD turned down a "lesser" Ivy. It's OK. DD is doing fine, no, great at her no-name college. She's got a great internship this summer. In the long term, a talented kid is going to be successful anywhere s/he goes. And saving the $$ by sending her to a less expensive college is a huge break for us and for her. No debt whatsoever. Yea!!

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Years ago, I was a Beneficial Hodson scholar at Hopkins. I believe it covered 60% of tuition. I believe there were 18 undergraduates in my class that got the award.

Nowadays its just called The Hodson Trust Scholarship. It provides up to $31,500 per year to approximately 20 exceptional first-year students. These scholarships are automatically renewed for three subsequent years of full-time undergraduate study provided the recipient maintains a 3.0 grade point average.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, you ask a very reasonable question. With the same uw GPA and 710 math as a STEM major, DD got 1/2 OOS tuition at a flagship public and 1/3 off at a STEM focused private. Those were 2 very good (money) results out of 10. We would never have been able to anticipate the end results, so I'd advise to apply widely. Just make sure DC has financial safeties from which to choose. A problem your DC will have is Theatre is such a competitive major, students are lucky to get into the major at all.

Hmmm. Thank you. Good to know. DS is thinking of coming up with something different than a straight theater major to differentiate himself. But it's good to know there may be some OOS options. The problem for us is our budget is capped at $25K per year, so 1/3 off a private is not going to be enough. sigh.

Out of state public universities give merit aid?

Yes! My kid went to Alabama for free.

How did your child like Alabama? My kid can go for free, too, but I don't know much about it. My gut says he'd be a fish out of water there. We are Jewish so not sure if there are many Jews there.

There are a fare number of Jews at Bama--somewhere around 700 or so.

Here's a good tip: Always check to see if there's a Hillel House on campus. That's a sign that there's a Jewish population.

http://hillel.ua.edu/faq/

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^^^ That should be fair not fare. Long day.