Great merit stories

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Bucknell for engineering

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Seems like some folks here are confusing merit and need-based aid

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Anonymous wrote:Duke full ride

Whoa!! Merit amd not financial aid?

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like some folks here are confusing merit and need-based aid

Maybe some folks who get financial aid SAY that they got merit??

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Merit only, not need:

Below or at in-state CoA:
Beloit
Lawrence
Kalamazoo
Hendrix

Very near in-state CoA:
St Olaf

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Anonymous wrote:39k/yr from Lewis and Clark. Nice place and a better school than you’d think based on admissions stats…..

Very nice school and so beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:Marquette. Offered merit which brought it down to compare to our in state levels for the state flagship. Yes good marketing but she loves the school ( now a sophomore) and I love that they wanted her. She is a good but not fantastic student. And she got a huge frozen pretzel in the mail with the acceptance.

Congrats to your daughter. Is she Catholic? I saw a list (Princeton Review?) that showed Marquette as having the most religious students. It gave me pause because my son is agnostic. Thanks for any input on student diversity. I was seriously looking at Marquette until I saw it on the list.

DP: Marquette is Not overly religious.

We are not religious at all. My kid loved their time at Marquette. Sure most kids are catholic or Christian, but not all. Most don’t make a big deal about it. Other than Ash Wednesday—first year was a nice learning experience—most kids participate then even if they never go to mass/church normally.

Only have one theology course requirement—viewed it as a history course. Great education all around

This is the pp. Thank you so much for responding!

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Anonymous wrote:Duke full ride

+1. It’s one of the best outcomes because they are even paying money if a student takes a semester overseas. If a semester at Duke costs $42k (covered by the scholarship) and a student goes to an approved college overseas where a semester costs $25k, Duke pays $25k to that college and pays $17k directly to the student.

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Anonymous wrote:Full tuition from Ithaca, $30,000 from NYU, $25,000 from Emerson. 33 ACT. DC public HS, UW GPA 3.9.

Impressive. Didn't realize NYU gave merit. Tough to get down to level of in state. COA still must be over $60k

PP is not being truthful as NYU offers very limited merit money:
https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/financial-aid-and-scholarships/applying-and-planning-for-undergraduate-aid/scholarships-and-grants.html

$30k is not an option.

You’re wrong. I’m not the poster but NYU definitely offers merit. Back in the day, they offered my sibling a very generous presidential scholarship (full ride) and a few years ago, they offered my son full tuition based on music. My sibling turned it down to go to an Ivy. My son attended NYU.

https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/aid-and-costs/scholarships.html#incoming

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UNC full ride

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Anonymous wrote:Full tuition from Ithaca, $30,000 from NYU, $25,000 from Emerson. 33 ACT. DC public HS, UW GPA 3.9.

Impressive. Didn't realize NYU gave merit. Tough to get down to level of in state. COA still must be over $60k

PP is not being truthful as NYU offers very limited merit money:
https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/financial-aid-and-scholarships/applying-and-planning-for-undergraduate-aid/scholarships-and-grants.html

$30k is not an option.

+100. NYU does not give merit aid. Scholarships and FA sure, but not merit.

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DD got merit offers from Univ of Colorado, Oberlin, Case Western, Ithaca, Pitt, Brandeis. they were all about the same amount, but Tag helped with state bottom lines.

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Anonymous wrote:My older kid was offered $27K per year from Grinnell (decided to go in-state to William and Mary). He was a high GPA TJHSST student and a National Merit Scholarship finalist. My younger one gets $32K per year from Northeastern, which makes it only a somewhat more expensive ($15k per year?) than some of the in-state options he was considering

Did not understand the assignment.

Thought the EXACT thing.

DP. Though that thinking would knock any umd aid out because tuition (in state) is less than that.

I thought about mentioning UVM for my kid. Not a huge amount in OP's terms, but the max they offer and enough to bring it to 30s. Some of this is relative to initial COA. 25k at a state school does more than 27k or 32k at a private.

I think Muhlenberg stacked enough merit (included 2 arts scholarships) to bring it to the 20s. UMD stacked Presidential and departmental awards to supercede full tuition cost.

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Think Arizona and Arizona State are know for big merit OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama
Tennessee
Indiana
Rochester
Florida State
UMD
Mizzou

You must have received a $50-60k scholarship to bring in line with cost of in state as OP inquired.

And Rochester does not typically give much merit. They give Financial aide, but NOT merit anywhere near that level