Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:31     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine got 36k per year. Starting in a week. He didn’t apply ED however he did send in his application before December 1st in order to be considered for merit aid. Definitely read the fine print on when you need to apply.


What were his stats and what was the best school he was admitted to and turned down?


Sigh. Ok I’ll play. 4.0/4.6 uw/w and probably Haverford or UVA. It was an easy choice between Haverford and Grinnell. And we could have afforded Haverford.


Easy choice? Only if you love cornfields.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:30     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
My kid who got half tuition turned down Carleton and William & Mary.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:29     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
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Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


Yes, they’re all excellent but Grinnell is clearly the best of the bunch

Not really. I could list many things better about Kenyon, Denison, or Macalester. Grinnell really struggles to attract talent.


Lol right. That’s why they have more applicants than any of the others, a much lower acceptance rate, higher stats, and a much higher ranking


Grinnell’s yield is also highest of the four, suggesting that if anything it has LESS trouble attracting talent than any of the four. Kenyon is particularly pathetic when it comes to yield.

Your yield increases if you let everyone in during ED. Uchicago would love to talk to you about this strategy.


Look, douche bag, I neither agree nor disagree with you on that. But we are talking about four colleges in particular. They ALL do this. So to single out Grinnell makes no sense.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:26     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
My kid got 30k. Had a respectable but not 4.0 from a private school. Turned down Williams, Wes, Davidson, among others.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:25     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


The chart that I always look at says 65%. It is on reddit. It has been mentioned on here before. So, take it with a grain of salt.


Sorry they fill 65 percent of the class via ED.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:24     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


The chart that I always look at says 65%. It is on reddit. It has been mentioned on here before. So, take it with a grain of salt.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:23     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine got 36k per year. Starting in a week. He didn’t apply ED however he did send in his application before December 1st in order to be considered for merit aid. Definitely read the fine print on when you need to apply.


What were his stats and what was the best school he was admitted to and turned down?


Sigh. Ok I’ll play. 4.0/4.6 uw/w and probably Haverford or UVA. It was an easy choice between Haverford and Grinnell. And we could have afforded Haverford.


Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I assume you’re in state UVA and felt obligated to apply?


We are in state for UVA. And nothing against the school our DS just decided he wanted to go to a smaller liberal arts school instead of a big state school.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:16     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


Yes, they’re all excellent but Grinnell is clearly the best of the bunch

Not really. I could list many things better about Kenyon, Denison, or Macalester. Grinnell really struggles to attract talent.


Lol right. That’s why they have more applicants than any of the others, a much lower acceptance rate, higher stats, and a much higher ranking


Grinnell’s yield is also highest of the four, suggesting that if anything it has LESS trouble attracting talent than any of the four. Kenyon is particularly pathetic when it comes to yield.

Your yield increases if you let everyone in during ED. Uchicago would love to talk to you about this strategy.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:10     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine got 36k per year. Starting in a week. He didn’t apply ED however he did send in his application before December 1st in order to be considered for merit aid. Definitely read the fine print on when you need to apply.


What were his stats and what was the best school he was admitted to and turned down?


Sigh. Ok I’ll play. 4.0/4.6 uw/w and probably Haverford or UVA. It was an easy choice between Haverford and Grinnell. And we could have afforded Haverford.


Thanks. That's helpful. My kid's stats are slightly lower but similar; likely 4.5ish by end of sr year and 1530 SATs.
- OP
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:08     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:Did you try looking at the Grinnell website? They list the merit scholarships including the full tuition one.


Yes. But besides the $20K auto "merit" for ED'ing it doesn't give detials on ranges of them. Full tuition scholarships tend to be just a handful at most colleges so haven't been anythign i'm banking on.
- OP
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 15:01     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine got 36k per year. Starting in a week. He didn’t apply ED however he did send in his application before December 1st in order to be considered for merit aid. Definitely read the fine print on when you need to apply.


What were his stats and what was the best school he was admitted to and turned down?


Sigh. Ok I’ll play. 4.0/4.6 uw/w and probably Haverford or UVA. It was an easy choice between Haverford and Grinnell. And we could have afforded Haverford.


Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I assume you’re in state UVA and felt obligated to apply?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 14:54     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Pp here. SAT was 1540.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 14:53     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine got 36k per year. Starting in a week. He didn’t apply ED however he did send in his application before December 1st in order to be considered for merit aid. Definitely read the fine print on when you need to apply.


What were his stats and what was the best school he was admitted to and turned down?


Sigh. Ok I’ll play. 4.0/4.6 uw/w and probably Haverford or UVA. It was an easy choice between Haverford and Grinnell. And we could have afforded Haverford.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 14:42     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


Yes, they’re all excellent but Grinnell is clearly the best of the bunch

Not really. I could list many things better about Kenyon, Denison, or Macalester. Grinnell really struggles to attract talent.


Lol right. That’s why they have more applicants than any of the others, a much lower acceptance rate, higher stats, and a much higher ranking

A lot of words to explain that they take a bunch of their class ed


So do all of the other schools listed. So what’s your point?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 14:39     Subject: Grinnell & Merit Aid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The early decision acceptance rate for ED1 and ED2 is over 40 percent. They also heavily weight demonstrated interest. And anyone who applies ED and gets in is guaranteed a $20k per year scholarship.

Grinnell, Kenyon, Denison, Macalester. These are the highest ranked LACs where a good student can get $20-25k in merit aid. All are excellent schools.


Yes, they’re all excellent but Grinnell is clearly the best of the bunch

Not really. I could list many things better about Kenyon, Denison, or Macalester. Grinnell really struggles to attract talent.


Lol right. That’s why they have more applicants than any of the others, a much lower acceptance rate, higher stats, and a much higher ranking


Grinnell’s yield is also highest of the four, suggesting that if anything it has LESS trouble attracting talent than any of the four. Kenyon is particularly pathetic when it comes to yield.