Do people really get 60K full scholarships?

[Anonymous]

Or when they say that do they mean full tuition scholarships? Even that seems huge. Well, unless you have sports or some unique story.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

Well she can only go to one college at a time, right?

I feel kind of embarrassed for your daughter that you're here bragging about that.

But also impressed with HER that she worked so hard and got a good deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

Well she can only go to one college at a time, right?

I feel kind of embarrassed for your daughter that you're here bragging about that.

But also impressed with HER that she worked so hard and got a good deal.

Idiot - she was responding to a posted question. That's not "bragging".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

That's awesome PP! Do you have any more information that you can share on the types of schools that your daughter got into? Or anything else that made her attractive for the scholarships? (Please ignore the very jealous PP from above!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

Well she can only go to one college at a time, right?

I feel kind of embarrassed for your daughter that you're here bragging about that.

But also impressed with HER that she worked so hard and got a good deal.

np: What a strange response. PP was being responsive to the question. If it comes across like bragging, sounds to me like it's something worth bragging about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

Well she can only go to one college at a time, right?

I feel kind of embarrassed for your daughter that you're here bragging about that.

But also impressed with HER that she worked so hard and got a good deal.

You are a fool.

[Anonymous]

My husband had the literal "full ride" at the private university we both attended for undergrad. Tuition, room, board, books. It was automatically awarded to the 20 or so top students who applied. All merit-based, not need-based.

It should be noted that his stats were far higher than the average at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

That's awesome PP! Do you have any more information that you can share on the types of schools that your daughter got into? Or anything else that made her attractive for the scholarships? (Please ignore the very jealous PP from above!)

Not PP, but I also had National Merit kids. A number of schools offer full ride scholarships to National Merit Scholars. You can google it to get more information, but the most well known are Oklahoma and Alabama. They offer full rides plus extras like paying for summer study abroad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

That's awesome PP! Do you have any more information that you can share on the types of schools that your daughter got into? Or anything else that made her attractive for the scholarships? (Please ignore the very jealous PP from above!)

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Sure! Our other kids are just your typical average college kids. We didn't do anything different with our daughter - no test prep or supplementing, ever. She is just very smart, works hard, and tests well. It's nothing we did. She got into all the schools she applied to. Two Ivys and three good state schools. The public schools are the ones who threw money at her. She was involved in chorus and drama, but no leadership roles to speak of. Her GPA was high - 3.95. But it was her test scores that won her the scholarships. She accepted a full ride at University of Florida. Not where we thought she would end up, but she loved it! And it was free, so we loved it too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

That's awesome PP! Do you have any more information that you can share on the types of schools that your daughter got into? Or anything else that made her attractive for the scholarships? (Please ignore the very jealous PP from above!)

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Sure! Our other kids are just your typical average college kids. We didn't do anything different with our daughter - no test prep or supplementing, ever. She is just very smart, works hard, and tests well. It's nothing we did. She got into all the schools she applied to. Two Ivys and three good state schools. The public schools are the ones who threw money at her. She was involved in chorus and drama, but no leadership roles to speak of. Her GPA was high - 3.95. But it was her test scores that won her the scholarships. She accepted a full ride at University of Florida. Not where we thought she would end up, but she loved it! And it was free, so we loved it too.

My DD is like that too. She wants to go to a competitive school though and not state so we'll see. Did the private schools offer any scholarships? Like 20k or something?
Also, DD got 98th percentile - was your DD more like 99?

We told DD if she went somewhere on scholarships we'd take a nice family vacation which she finds appealing after years of paying for private school(which was good for her - she got a great education).

What did your DD study? Is she going to grad school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My daughter did. She was a National Merit Scholar. No sports. But high test scores. She had colleges fighting to give her money.

That's awesome PP! Do you have any more information that you can share on the types of schools that your daughter got into? Or anything else that made her attractive for the scholarships? (Please ignore the very jealous PP from above!)

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Sure! Our other kids are just your typical average college kids. We didn't do anything different with our daughter - no test prep or supplementing, ever. She is just very smart, works hard, and tests well. It's nothing we did. She got into all the schools she applied to. Two Ivys and three good state schools. The public schools are the ones who threw money at her. She was involved in chorus and drama, but no leadership roles to speak of. Her GPA was high - 3.95. But it was her test scores that won her the scholarships. She accepted a full ride at University of Florida. Not where we thought she would end up, but she loved it! And it was free, so we loved it too.

That's great, PP! Would you mind sharing about how many APs she took?

[Anonymous]

Yes, a relative was offered a true full ride to a very small (and good) college in the midwest. They were interested in the student for the arts. I think most departments in less frantically popular schools have the option to give one or two full rides to recruit what they need for their programs; otherwise some of those schools may not get what they need to fill the program.

Solid student, but no awards. Trained voice and otherwise fit the profile of the school.

[Anonymous]

DC got a couple of full ride offers too. A high stat kid like PP's DD - NMF/NMS, Presidential Scholar candidate (but didn't win), perfect test score, 3.95/4.73, and graduated from one of the MCPS magnets. At UMDCP on a B/K scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Here is a listing of some full ride scholarships:
http://blog.prepscholar.com/colleges-with-full-ride-scholarships