Reply to Merit Scholarships at T20

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Merit Scholarships at T20"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Merit aid is rare at the top schools. This information is (usually) easy to find. Google the name of the university and "common data set." Once you get the most recent CDS, go to section H, line H2A-N and O. This will tell you the number of freshmen and upperclassmen who had no financial need and who were awarded merit aid (excluding athletic awards), and the average amount of merit aid given.

Top 20 universities according to USNWR, and their published amount of merit aid for freshmen entering in the fall of 2020:
Princeton--0
Columbia--0
Harvard--0
MIT--0
Yale--0
Stanford--0
Chicago--doesn't have recent CDS readily available on their website, which actually is illegal
Penn--0
Cal Tech--0
Duke--11 freshmen got merit awards, average of $72k
Johns Hopkins--no recent CDS available
Northwestern--92 freshmen got merit awards, average of $4k
Dartmouth--0
Brown--0
Vanderbilt--154 freshmen, $19k
Wash U--40 freshmen, $30k
Cornell--0
Rice--32 freshmen, $19k
Notre Dame--49 freshmen, 18k
UCLA--no easy way to determine for OOS students

Top 21 colleges according to USNWR (there was a tie for 20th)
Williams--0
Amherst--0
Swarthmore--4 freshmen, $54k
Pomona--0
Wellesley--0 freshmen, but 6 upperclassmen had merit aid averaging $40k. Not sure if Wellesley awarded it previously but has stopped?
Bowdoin--12 freshmen, $1k
Annapolis--n/a
Claremont McKenna--22 freshmen, $14k
Carleton--6 freshmen, $2k
Middlebury--2 freshmen, $10k
West Point--n/a
W&L--23 freshmen, $48k
Davidson--15 freshmen, $40k
Grinnell--no recent CDS available 
Hamilton--0
Haverford--0
Barnard--0
Colby--no recent CDS available
Colgate--0
Smith--20 freshmen, $20k
Wesleyan--3 freshmen, $60k[/quote]

Great work, OP![/quote]

There are very few merit spots at top schools.  It doesn't really start in general until you get to the schools that are trying to attract Ivy League + caliber students (UVA Jefferson, etc.)

There is generally great financial aid for lower to lower middle class students.  If you are a lower income student in Virginia and you were lucky enough to be admitted to Princeton, it would be less expensive (near free) than any Virginia public or private college.  Those schools would also have to offer merit to be on equal cost basis.

https://tamingthehighcostofcollege.com/net-price-of-virginia-colleges-by-income/

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university/paying-for-college/net-price/[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics