Where did your kid get merit aid oos?
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Anonymous
Yes. Did not quiet for need based aid. Attending Oberlin with $25k a year merit. Also eats at a co-op, which saves $4k a year. Got Oberlin down to $48k this year. Mac was $20k St. Olaf was about $20k, but they are less expensive than most privates, so the net price was below Oberlin Wooster was $26k, which was the max, but this was a couple years ago. Max is now $40k Grinnell was $25k (serious contender, but we could not visit in spring of 2020 and he did not want to go to Iowa sight unseen Pitt was $10k and honors college I don’t remember CWRU. It wasn’t a top contender Kenyon was $15k Also admitted WM in state, no aid Absolutely loves Oberlin FWIW. I’ve been very impressed with the academics, the community and how they have managed COVID. |
Anonymous
+1 Their merit aid roughly cut the cost of attendance in half. It is a good school if you seek a small, rural liberal arts college that is strong in science prep. |
Anonymous
| U of Delaware, Indiana, George Mason. |
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| Vermont, Macalester and George Washington all offered DD $15-$20K per year. |
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Kid 1: LSU, U of South Carolina
Kid 2: Vermont, Northeastern Kid 3: U of Washington All 3 ended up choosing UMD, though. |
Anonymous
| U Pitt and Temple |
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| Pitt and St. Joes |
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| Delaware, Tennessee, and Miami Ohio.l so far. Miami's merit aid is considerable. |
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University of Southern California
University of Richmond Pitt Indiana University |
Anonymous
| I assume you are talking about public schools only? My kid received aid at UVM. |
Anonymous
| Basically, if you have great stats, you can get some aid at national universities ranked around 50. For schools even lower-ranked, like 100 or lower, you can get considerable aid, oftentimes enough to equal in-state tuition or even full tuition. Also, lots of aid - $25k or so - at mid-tier LACs. However, if you kid is average, don’t expect a lot of merit from these schools: you have to go even further down the food chain. At that point, a solid state school might be your best choice. |
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| SMCM only offered 5K (to my above average but not stellar kid) |
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Pitt
Northeastern Tulane |
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| Minnesota |
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My kids, both with wGPAs of 4.0/4.1 and overall ACTs of 31/32, got enough merit aid from the following schools to bring the annual COA between $30k-$40k:
Wooster Kalamazoo Clark Lawrence Denison Eckerd Trinity (TX) Public OOS schools that they considered and that would have been ~$35k SUNY-Geneseo UNC-Asheville UNC-Wilmington You might also consider Mary Washington. One of my kids got a scholarship offer there that would have brought the COA to 15k, but we are in- state. I don't know how generous they are with aid for OOS students. Still, even full COA for OOS is <$40k, I believe. |