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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SLACs are changing enough so that when your 7th grade daughter is applying to colleges, current info will likely be out of date. My guess is some need-based aid only schools will start offering merit to attract students[/quote]

+1. This.  The aid landscape is shifting. But, for my kid this year, merit only, no application for need based aid) this is what is possible (not at all saying my kid will be offered this)

Davidson up to full tuition (but that’s very, very tough)
 
Max for other schools:

St. Olaf (1/2 tuition)
Wooster ($40,000)
Juanita (same range as Wooster)
Oberlin (about $30,000– they don’t publish clear numbers)
Kenyon, Grinnell and Macalester ($25,000)

Carleton, Reed and the NEASC schools do nothing, except maybe $2000 for NMSF.  So, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Bates, Colgate, Hamilton, Swathmore, Haverford, etc all zilch.

St. John’s does good merit and cut tuition to $35,000– but it has a very specific program.

Sewanee and Denison are supposed to do good merit aid, but my kid wasn’t interested.

I have a boy, but I believe Smith does merit aid. Next up for me is a girl, so would be interested to know if any of the women’s colleges do merit— Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, Barnard, etc.

If you look at the common data set, it breaks out the number of kids who get merit aid, and the average amount per kid.  That’s the best place to get real data.

Also, look at small universities.  Rochester and Case Western both do good merit aid.

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Fantastic post, PP--thanks![/quote]

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