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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter got $40,000 ($10,000 a year) at University of Florida. We were Florida residents so she also got the Bright Futures Scholarship.  She was a National Merit Scholar finalist.  She graduated last year and is teaching in DC!  I have a son at Univ. of Colorado.  $8,000 a year merit.  I have another at Ole Miss.  Full ride.[/quote]

Nice![/quote]

Thanks  :)   Those three were our easy kids.  We have one that enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school.  We are super proud of her.  She wasn't a great student, but she has turned out to be a really good Airman.  We're hoping she'll be more ready for college when she gets out.  The military will pay which is nice.[b]  Our youngest wants to go to MIT.  He had better pray for merit aid.[/b][/quote]

MIT doesn't award any merit aid.[/quote]

You'll learn when you've done this as many times as I have - There is a ton of scholarship money out there.  Merit aid doesn't always come from the school.  [/quote]

Np- ROTC? I don't consider that merit scholarship. It's an advanced payment for future service.[/quote]

There are tons of private organizations that offer merit aid. Larger organizations often offer merit aid to the children of employees.   My daughter's high school offered a very generous merit aid scholarship to ten students.  The money is out there.  You just have to be willing to look for it.[/quote]

This maybe factually correct but misleading. Corp sponsored scholarships are often times one time award and often times not enough to make a significant difference. Big money comes from school awarded scholarships.

OP - DC's scholarship award even though I don't see how it can be useful to you. We are in MD.

UMD - full ride
UMBC - almost full ride
UPitt - full tutiion
NEU - 25k/year, 
UMiami (FL) - full tution
USCarolina - can't recall but significant
Few other schools I don't remember...[/quote]

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