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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have read everything there is to read about merit aid. I’ve looked at the common data set foe 100 schools. I’m not dumb but I can’t figure it out. How do I know where my kid will get merit aid?[/quote]
You can't know for sure at schools where the merit scholarships are competitive. See what the website says about merit scholarships. Best to have high stats, at the 75th percentile for the school.

You can be reasonably certain at schools that offer automatic merit because their scholarship website tells you. University of Alabama is one example, though there are many others.[/quote]

1. Which schools have automatic aid?
2.[b] Other than automatic aid if there’s no wat to know how much aid is coming it would be possible for kid to not be able to pay for any school they got into[/b].[/quote]
If you can't afford the net price offered at schools that give need-based aid, then you need to rely on merit. Automatic merit is a sure thing and some of these auto merit schools should be on the list as financial safeties, assuming you find the remaining price after scholarship to be affordable. Look at your in-state options as well.[/quote]
I literally can’t afford net price at any school. Any school. [/quote]

To sum up some of the previous advice, your best bet are lower-ranked out of state public’s that have automatic aid for high stats students. Some of those may want high test scores, though, so look at that (it looks like Alabama does, for example — raising their stats is the whole point). If your student is in the top 25% for some of the privates that offer merit (usually not the super competitive ones, they don’t need to offer merit), it may bring your cost down to the cost of a public, but full rides at privates for kids that don’t need financial aid are rare.  [/quote]

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