What are the best Merit (not need) Based School Scholarships?

[Anonymous]

My DD may go engineering or pre-med.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD may go engineering or pre-med.

Thanks

Lots of the southern state schools offer full rides to NMSF and above.

[Anonymous]

A lot of schools, especially those trying to improve their reputation and/or US news ranking, or trying to go from a regional school to a national school will give huge amounts of merit aid to people who have GPAs and/or test scores that are way above their median. Look at mid tier liberal arts schools or non-flagship state colleges.

[Anonymous]

IF you kid is a NMSF will get all sorts of stuff in the mail, basically offering free tuition for some state schools (often the second campus of a state school, or sometimes a state school that is the primary campus but not academic powerhouse, i.e. U Oklahoma, Southern Georgia etc). My DD also got offered a lot of merit aid by places like Oberlin. The Ivys and top SLACs (Amherst, Middlebury, Pomona and the like) don't give merit aid

[Anonymous]

Boy Scouts of America has a number of excellent scholarships, usually for those who made it through Eagle (2%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy Scouts of America has a number of excellent scholarships, usually for those who made it through Eagle (2%).

I'm sure that's real helpful to the OP's DAUGHTER...

[Anonymous]

Tulane.

[Anonymous]

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Guaranteed 50% or more tuition if your DD meets the requirements.

https://www.miami.muohio.edu/admission/finaid/high-school/scholarships/miami-scholarships/merit.html

[Anonymous]

College Confidential has a really good compilation of schools with merit aid. I'd have to dig a bit to find it but you should be able to search their website for it.

[Anonymous]

U South Carolina and U Delaware give decent merit$$.

[Anonymous]

Look at schools like UNC, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, SMU, U od Alabama. If you go to the College Confidential website there's a list of the schools offering good merit aid to National Merit Finalists.

[Anonymous]

The above chart for Miami of Ohio is a good illustration of the Merit Aid range offered at similar ranked schools. Note, in all cases, a high unweighted gpa is required. Actual results will be hit & miss. It is nothing anyone can count on - apply widely if merit aid is necessary. But these figures look about right from our experience.

[Anonymous]

The key is having a test score that will improve a school's ranking. GPA is important, but it is meaningless as a comparison tool because grades aren't standardized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy Scouts of America has a number of excellent scholarships, usually for those who made it through Eagle (2%).

Actually, those are few are far between considering the number of students that get Eagle Scouts. Plus, they are usually for small amounts.

[Anonymous]

Have an SAT verbal/or math subscore of 700+ and hope for merit aid at schools ranked below the top 50. Our preference was National Universities ranked by US News.