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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]merit based scholarships do require FAFSA [/b]however they are hard to come by, you almost have to go down two notches school ranking wise to score some.[/quote]

This is totally wrong.  Almost NO schools require FAFSA for merit awards.    We did not fill out FAFSA and my kid got merit aid offers from a dozen different schools.  [/quote]

And submitting FAFSA is not required to keep the award?[/quote]

DP:  Nope.  My kids got merit from over 15+ schools.  Never filled out FAFSA and it was never required at any of those schools. It's actually the opposite---only a few schools require fafsa for merit (or the CSS).  We are full pay.  Both kids got 30-70% tuition merit awards.  Had they needed fafsa, we would have filled it out.  But otherwise, we would never get any need based FA (Never, nothing could change to make it happen---our contribution per year is in 7 figures).  
[b]So I never filled it out as our finances are not their business. [/b]
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Okay, sure, you can make that choice, but don't confidently assert to other families that it doesn't matter. Sometimes it does, and people should be able to make that informed choice.

When you are wrong, you are wrong. Try instead: "Even though the FAFSA may be relevant to some merit-based awards, having the full scope available to your child might not be worth putting your financial information out there. It wasn't for us." That would at least be accurate.[/quote]

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