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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry to hear about the negative experiences with merit scholarships at Rochester. Most similar colleges in the Northeast give absolutely no merit aid at all - with all of their money going into need based aid. Rochester is unusual in this part of the country in that it does give merit based scholarships with about 13% of US applicants receiving scholarships in the most recent class. So, your comments put it into the reach category for finances, but I still think it’s worth investigating for an exceptional student like this one because there is still a chance that she could qualify for scholarship money. Thus family can’t afford to be full pay, but I got the impression that they don’t need a full tuition award either. So, I’m thinking that even a partial scholarship might put it into the affordable  category for them.[/quote]

In previous years (see the CDS data), 95%+ of engineering students received merit awards (as in only 2 or 3 in 2020 who were not FA eligible did not get Merit).  For the CDS they have on the univ website, 100% of ESM (engineering/science/math) not given FA were given merit with the avg award over $25K.

Given my kid's stats, I have to assume not as many got Merit this year simply because my DC was at 75/80% for stats so logically should have gotten some if 95%+ were being awarded merit.  Thankfully we can afford full pay.
So apply to UR, especially if Engineering/sciences and hope you get some merit, but even then $25K when "all in " is nearing 80K means you need to be almost full pay
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