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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]" Duke and Chicago do offer some merit scholarships. "

Why should a merit scholarship require financial disclosure? Is it a form of pandering to parents from Lake Woebegon where all the kids are "above average?"[/quote]

Some of y'all sound seriously ungrateful.  I spend 2 hours a year and get $15k for my kid each time. If the cost is disclosing information to the federal govt that is largely already in my 1040, I will still say thank you to the institution and fill out the damned form.[/quote]

Chicago and Duke both require the CSS along with the FAFSA. For some of us that is a lot of work (we have 20+ accounts/assets spread across two countries). In our case, none of the 10 schools that my two kids applied to required forms for merit aid. Both kids received merit aid at their safeties. The school included big ten (Purdue), UMCP and privates. However, we are 1% in both income and assets. If we were say 10%, with most money in our retirement accounts/home, I would have filed the forms. [/quote]

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