Selective schools with merit scholarships

[Anonymous]

A bit off your topic OP, but if he ends up staying in public, I recommend you explore Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth to take supplemental classes. Or Well Trained Mind Academy, which is for homeschoolers but could still work. Strongly recommend the latter--better classes than anything my kids took in our highly rated FFX County publics, plus supportive and bright peers.

[Anonymous]

Bump for the person looking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where can I find a list of selective schools with merit scholarships?

For example, I know about:

Duke
WashU
Vanderbilt
Emory
USC
UVA
Wake
UNC
Tulane

Wake, Tulane, and USC are the only schools on this list that give merit aid to more than the tiniest percentage of students…

I'm not sure how many, but BU offers some merit as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice has merit but really only a handful of students will get it.

I don't know about now but rice used to have great need based merit scholarships.
Full rides for students on free lunch from schools like stuyvesant with really high SAT scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to this link and look at % of kids w/out need getting merit, and average amount:
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/merit-aid

If percentage is under 20%, ignore. Duke is 2%, for example. Treat as if it has no merit aid whatsoever.

If percentage is 40% or more, prioritize.

Not op but what's interesting is even the schools that give a ton of merit are so expensive they still don't make sense financially: who cares about getting 20k off when tuition is 80k? It's still insanely expensive.

[Anonymous]

Look at St. John’s College in Annapolis/Santa Fe, or Deep Springs. The latter would be 100% free and they might take such a genius student early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to this link and look at % of kids w/out need getting merit, and average amount:
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/merit-aid

If percentage is under 20%, ignore. Duke is 2%, for example. Treat as if it has no merit aid whatsoever.

If percentage is 40% or more, prioritize.

Not op but what's interesting is even the schools that give a ton of merit are so expensive they still don't make sense financially: who cares about getting 20k off when tuition is 80k? It's still insanely expensive.

There are seemingly different lists. I find it interesting that PP's list shows Harvey Mudd offering 20% of kids merit aid (while CMC and Pomona offer almost nobody merit aid), as well as 40%+ for SMU and TCU.

The list in this article shows fewer schools, but they offer far more freshmen merit aid. This list says schools like Kalamazoo offer 96% of entering freshmen merit aid, while PP's list says Kalamazoo is only 27% (is it possible, you only get merit for freshman year? that seems unlikley).

https://www.road2college.com/colleges-offering-largest-percent-students-merit-based-scholarships/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where can I find a list of selective schools with merit scholarships?

For example, I know about:

Duke
WashU
Vanderbilt
Emory
USC
UVA
Wake
UNC
Tulane

As others said, there is not merit like you think it's merit. It's a handful of top, top students.

Boston College has the Gabelli but very limited #.

Case gives great merit.

[Anonymous]

What about W&M?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bit off your topic OP, but if he ends up staying in public, I recommend you explore Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth to take supplemental classes. Or Well Trained Mind Academy, which is for homeschoolers but could still work. Strongly recommend the latter--better classes than anything my kids took in our highly rated FFX County publics, plus supportive and bright peers.

AoPS is better for math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bit off your topic OP, but if he ends up staying in public, I recommend you explore Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth to take supplemental classes. Or Well Trained Mind Academy, which is for homeschoolers but could still work. Strongly recommend the latter--better classes than anything my kids took in our highly rated FFX County publics, plus supportive and bright peers.

Also, which classes/teachers did you enjoy at WTMA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice has merit but really only a handful of students will get it.

I don't know about now but rice used to have great need based merit scholarships.
Full rides for students on free lunch from schools like stuyvesant with really high SAT scores

I don't think Rice does a lot of merit today. But they do exceptional grant-based aid. Really, one of the best