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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where can I find a list of selective schools with merit scholarships?

For example, I know about:

Duke
WashU
Vanderbilt
Emory 
USC
UVA
Wake
UNC
Tulane

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Tulane merit is much easier to get than these others, and it is not close to the same peer group. There are many other merit scholarships in Tulane’s peer group including SMU, Fordham…all give a good amount of aid for “average excellent” 1400s/32/top25% of private school(or top10% of public) .

The other schools are very rare: wake for example is extremely competitive only inviting 40-50 students to be finalists, then selecting about half for full rides after intensive interviews. The only partial merit there is talent based arts things . The other financial aid is all need based and requires fafsa, so not merit. 
Emory and washU are a similar level of selectivity. Vanderbilt gives full and partials and numberswise gives slightly more merit-only awards than Wake or Emory but they are not all full and some (like washU) have demographic/background restrictions. 
For all of these, the students who get them are among 2-3 dozen selected out of 20-40 thousand applicants. The unhooked winners are superstar students who are exceptional in every way. 
Duke is almost impossible to get and even more rarified, given less totals and perhaps the most competitive applicant pool from all the schools listed. 
USC is much easier as is Notre Dame, and UNC gives a decent amount of sizable partial merit (in addition to the more prestigious Morehead cain) making the total number of merit-only awards much higher %of applicants wise than washU/wake/emory.
Fordham and Tulane and SMU have a large portion of the incoming class who gets merit (pure merit, no fafsa). The “merit” is really more of a discount at these schools as it is given readily just by passing a couple of criteria. If you really need merit, chase the lower tier schools, or go anothet step down for more merit/discounts. [/quote]

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