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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL "large merit"
I would not count on that OP

[b]When colleges give merit even if it is large the amount is still higher tuition than a instate school.[/b]

Apply to data only schools like UMD, UF, Univ of SC, Univerity of Michigan etc.. then the extra's do not matter much. DCUM won't agree with me.[/quote]

The bolded is usually true, OP.

My ADHD/ASD kid who is very intellectual and only interested in his academic topic of interest had nothing but a pandemic dog-walking business and his native language weekend school as his extra-curriculars. He received a laughable $1k merit offer from UMD, but was offered Honors College there (in-state cost of attendance around 30K). He got 17K knocked off the 50K or so of cost of attendance at his safety, St John's College in Annapolis. He got into McGill on a whim, but never seriously thought of going, and didn't apply for scholarships (that's what you have to do over there). He got no merit from W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews (very selective). The OOS cost of attendance would have been $65K a year. And finally he received 20K a year from GW, guaranteed 5 years, which reduced the total cost of attendance to 65K. GW knew what it was doing. Since his major is International Affairs, and their local competition is Georgetown and W&M, both at 65K, they didn't have to offer more merit than that. They gambled that all prices being equal, he'd pick them. And he did: they have nicer food and dorms, and he liked the professors better.

It's a little insight into the calculations that go into offering merit aid to students. [/quote]

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