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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As of this past application cycle, Elon's merit awards top out at around $23,500 for the best kids (about 60 total per entering class), and most kids will get no more than $17,500 I think. Other nearby schools that get similar applicants, like Furman, Wofford, Sewanee, etc. were offering similar kids merit amounts around $35,000 or so. While those schools do cost a little bit more, their cost of attendance for the brighter kids with no financial need is going to be lower than Elon's most of the time.  Perhaps Elon needs to up their merit for the best applicants (to the extent they financially are able to do so)?  Though it was interesting to read that a previous poster noted that Furman's enrollment is down, too.[/quote]

I have a pretty low stats kid (bad GPA based on a terrible freshman year, SAT is decent considering the GPA and the fact that he only took the SAT once). Anyway, our HS has pretty good luck with kids getting into Elon so I ran the NPC and it came back that he would get no merit. Ran it for U Denver, a school I consider in a similar echelon and it came back with 16K/year merit. Like, Elon is fine but there's no reason to pay full price for it. [/quote]

Their full-pay tuition rate is identical to most privates “scholarship”, they price it lower to start by that amount and that is usuals merit given as a baseline. [/quote]

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