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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, PP must be the poster on the TJ thread who mentioned  a written merit aid offer before even applying.  St Olaf is a great school!  Maybe those kind of merit aid offers are only at SLACs?  My kid isn’t interested in a SLAC even though I think it might suit her.[/quote]

Nope. Saw that, but no formal offer from St. Olaf (would be great though!) More of an if your kid applies, he would qualify for our top merit aid thing.  No dollar numbers mentioned, so I went dogging later.

St. Olaf was interesting in several ways.  They talked to my kid for a half hour. And then brought us in without us asking (not my interview). And asked what our concerns or questions were. I’ve never seen a college actively reach out to parents. They also had a one on one tour guide for my kid who knew what his academic interests and ECs were and had been matched to him.  As in, so, you are interested in biology?  I thought you might want to see the labs. And you do a lot of drama. We have a great drama program and I’m a part of it.  You do want to keep up with it?  Let’s detour backstage and look at the prop room.

Blown away.

And yes, most SLACs under the top 10 offer merit aid to a significant number of high stats kids with no need. Because they recognize a lot of talent there that isn’t going to able to pay 70k a year.  So they get it down to 30-40k/ OOS public if they really want your kid and your kid shows interest. National Us seem to offer less aid.  OOS publics seem to keep it in state mostly.  But IME SLACs that do merit (and the top 10 don’t) are very open about if you get in, there’s a good chance you won’t pay full price, even with no need.

Good luck to your kid! [/quote]

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