Selective schools with merit scholarships

[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]

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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