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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it true that merit aid is more frequently awarded to male students?  (perhaps because so many campuses are majority female)?[/quote]

[b]No. [/quote][/b]

I don't have any facts at hand to back this up, but I think it is true that some colleges (less prestigious) who have high percentage of female students DO offer merit aid to young men who fit their profile.  We're "donut hole" people so were very involved in the process, filed the FAFSA and educated ourselves.  DS got into all his EA application schools, but no merit aid (many schools do not give merit aid, as pointed out above).  Our of the blue he received several offers of scholarships at schools we had not even heard of.  I got on the phone with a few of them and learned that these schools had bought the list of males with ACT scores over 32.  When I said DS's score was actually a 36 combined, the merit scholarship immediately grew.  These particular LACs had 65% women and ACT spreads more in the 22-28 range. Those schools deluged DS with emails and calls - not because they wanted him - but because they wanted his stats for U.S. News & World Report.  So when your child fills out that info sheet for the first PSAT, all that info that they post, including zip codes (very important - schools will buy just zip code lists knowing parents in those areas might have the money to pay full freight), know that schools will purchase those lists and solicit your child if your child has something they want.  I do know this happened to several young men, but they were all from small, less-known LACs.[/quote]

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