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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about really good schools like Villanova, Wake Forest, Boston College, Michigan — can a 4.0uw, 1550+ student that has no special EC to get into Ivy or top tier get merit at any of those schools or do they need to look for private scholarships? [/quote]

No merit aid at Michigan.

Wake Forest awards it to less than 3% of incoming class https://financialaid.wfu.edu/merit/

Villanova does https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/enroll/finaid/scholarships_grants.html

BC says they award 15 merit scholarships per year. [/quote]

If by "really good schools" PP means, "schools ranked in the top 30 by USNWR," then with limited exceptions, none of them give merit money.

My DC was admitted to BC, but was not invited to compete for one of the 15 full merit scholarships.  (BC selects a larger group, invites them to campus, and has them compete for those scholarships.)  DC has a perfect GPA in an MCPS magnet (all As, all four years), SAT=1580, has hundreds of volunteer/service hours, is an athlete, and invented and marketed an app for use by disabled people (omitting details for privacy).  We hoped that DC would at least be invited to compete for a scholarship at BC, but nope. [/quote]

University of Rochester [/quote]

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