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Anonymous wrote:My daughter got $40,000 ($10,000 a year) at University of Florida. We were Florida residents so she also got the Bright Futures Scholarship. She was a National Merit Scholar finalist. She graduated last year and is teaching in DC! I have a son at Univ. of Colorado. $8,000 a year merit. I have another at Ole Miss. Full ride.

Nice!

Thanks Those three were our easy kids. We have one that enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school. We are super proud of her. She wasn't a great student, but she has turned out to be a really good Airman. We're hoping she'll be more ready for college when she gets out. The military will pay which is nice. Our youngest wants to go to MIT. He had better pray for merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

+1

OP, if you want to guesstimate what kind of merit aid your child will receive at a given school, use the Net Price Calculator to get that info. In our case, it proved to be fairly accurate.

That is not for merit aid.

Actually, it is.

We don't qualify for FA and used the NPC to guesstimate what kind of merit aid our DC would receive. It was pretty accurate.

I know of students receiving "Stamp Scholarship" at various universities, "Robertson Scholarship -UNC/Duke" and University of California at Berkeley Regents' Scholarship. Very competitive but full ride or almost full ride.

Miami University (Ohio)
University of South Carolina
University of Alabama
Ole Miss
University of Oklahoma


The above are all University's that tend to give large amounts of merit aid to highly qualified students as a lure.

DC received the Rensselear Medal from Rensselaer. If you can get that for your HS, it comes with a $25k per year minimum merit scholarship (which puts it in the range of out of state university costs)

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

Why? This not the same as need based aid. I want to know what schools are good at discounting the full sticker price with merit aid.

Because it doesn't mean anything unless you know applicant's stats and other qualifications, right?

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

Why? This not the same as need based aid. I want to know what schools are good at discounting the full sticker price with merit aid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

+1

OP, if you want to guesstimate what kind of merit aid your child will receive at a given school, use the Net Price Calculator to get that info. In our case, it proved to be fairly accurate.

That is not for merit aid.

Some schools' NPC has built-in merit scholarship amount if you meet certain criteria. I think PP was talking about that.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter got $40,000 ($10,000 a year) at University of Florida. We were Florida residents so she also got the Bright Futures Scholarship. She was a National Merit Scholar finalist. She graduated last year and is teaching in DC! I have a son at Univ. of Colorado. $8,000 a year merit. I have another at Ole Miss. Full ride.

Nice!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

+1

OP, if you want to guesstimate what kind of merit aid your child will receive at a given school, use the Net Price Calculator to get that info. In our case, it proved to be fairly accurate.

That is not for merit aid.

My daughter got $40,000 ($10,000 a year) at University of Florida. We were Florida residents so she also got the Bright Futures Scholarship. She was a National Merit Scholar finalist. She graduated last year and is teaching in DC! I have a son at Univ. of Colorado. $8,000 a year merit. I have another at Ole Miss. Full ride.

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

+1

OP, if you want to guesstimate what kind of merit aid your child will receive at a given school, use the Net Price Calculator to get that info. In our case, it proved to be fairly accurate.

I think this is a really dumb question, OP.

Your counselor should be able to help with this question. I know at DCs (public) school they collected scholarship info.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-merit-aid

http://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2015/05/31/which-colleges-offer-big-time-academic-merit-aid-money/#572443dd2fef

https://prephound.com/blog/top-merit-scholarships/

http://new.time.com/money/best-colleges/rankings/best-colleges-for-merit-aid/

Did any students heading off to college get any good merit aid scholarships? If so could you please list the college and amount (even if your student decided not to attend). Looking ahead for my senior this year. Thanks!