Merit Scholarship Info

[Anonymous]

If your child received a Merit Scholarship, how? Is it by school? How does the school (or whomever) determine if and how much? Is it just by SAT? What SAT score qualifies? TIA.

[Anonymous]

Each school determines their own criteria. You can often find some merit scholarship info on their websites. Some schools have specific SAT scores or GPA ranges listed; others have more vague information.

[Anonymous]

Just in the past couple of weeks, my DC has gotten mailers from mostly state schools (in other states) showing charts where you can find your SAT/ACT on one axis and your GPA on the other, and it shows you how much aid you get. It’s a formula. Pretty cool that they are up front like this.

Of course, DC only wants to go to smaller schools that don’t disclose such things. Oh well!!!

[Anonymous]

Websites often will tell you the amount of their scholarships but will not tell you how many students receive it.

You can find that information on the Common Data Set that nearly all schools make available on their website. One of the line items under Financial Aid on the Common Data Set is the number of students receiving non-need based aid and excluding athletic scholarships. Another line is the average amount of such non-need based aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just in the past couple of weeks, my DC has gotten mailers from mostly state schools (in other states) showing charts where you can find your SAT/ACT on one axis and your GPA on the other, and it shows you how much aid you get. It’s a formula. Pretty cool that they are up front like this.

Of course, DC only wants to go to smaller schools that don’t disclose such things. Oh well!!!

Please name few of this state colleges if their tuition comes down to instant tuition level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just in the past couple of weeks, my DC has gotten mailers from mostly state schools (in other states) showing charts where you can find your SAT/ACT on one axis and your GPA on the other, and it shows you how much aid you get. It’s a formula. Pretty cool that they are up front like this.

Of course, DC only wants to go to smaller schools that don’t disclose such things. Oh well!!!

Please name few of this state colleges if their tuition comes down to instant tuition level.

PP here. One was Missouri (Mizzou). And based on DC’s GPA and ACT, could’ve paid in-state tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just in the past couple of weeks, my DC has gotten mailers from mostly state schools (in other states) showing charts where you can find your SAT/ACT on one axis and your GPA on the other, and it shows you how much aid you get. It’s a formula. Pretty cool that they are up front like this.

Of course, DC only wants to go to smaller schools that don’t disclose such things. Oh well!!!

Please name few of this state colleges if their tuition comes down to instant tuition level.

PP here. One was Missouri (Mizzou). And based on DC’s GPA and ACT, could’ve paid in-state tuition.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

New Mexico

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just in the past couple of weeks, my DC has gotten mailers from mostly state schools (in other states) showing charts where you can find your SAT/ACT on one axis and your GPA on the other, and it shows you how much aid you get. It’s a formula. Pretty cool that they are up front like this.

Of course, DC only wants to go to smaller schools that don’t disclose such things. Oh well!!!

Please name few of this state colleges if their tuition comes down to instant tuition level.

PP here. One was Missouri (Mizzou). And based on DC’s GPA and ACT, could’ve paid in-state tuition.

NP here. DS also received a mailer like this (with a merit chart) from Alabama.

[Anonymous]

Oh common Op, do we really need to spoon-feed you?

[Anonymous]

From a pp’s response, I looked up the Missouri information from their website. This school is very clear who receives merit $$ and how much. Most schools don’t give so much information.

https://admissions.missouri.edu/scholarships/#auto_missouri

[Anonymous]

Miami of ohio has a similar chart online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From a pp’s response, I looked up the Missouri information from their website. This school is very clear who receives merit $$ and how much. Most schools don’t give so much information.

https://admissions.missouri.edu/scholarships/#auto_missouri

Great transparency.

[Anonymous]

Binghamton and JMU both offered instate tuition to OOS daughter

[Anonymous]

My kids got it from UMDCP. High stats and bunch of other ECs for B/K scholarship.