Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 15:23     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.
my 4.0 kid didn’t even get into UNC, let alone Morehead scholarship. Try Indiana or Clemson.


Clemson only offered my 4.0/1500 kid in in-state tuition. It’s something but not much compared to others.


Who offered more?
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 15:22     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.
my 4.0 kid didn’t even get into UNC, let alone Morehead scholarship. Try Indiana or Clemson.


Clemson only offered my 4.0/1500 kid in in-state tuition. It’s something but not much compared to others.


Clemson apparently tops out at about $12,500 per year or so.


Not true. At least not for last year. No idea what it will be for this year.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 15:07     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee has the Johnson scholarship which is a full ride and there is a good number of them, like 40 per year.

I think, however, that the gpa alone is not going to do it, your student will also need top test scores


USC gives half tuition scholarships to national merit finalists.


USC half tuition is still incredibly expensive



USC half tuition is about 32,000, that is $20,000 less than UVA OOS tuition.


ok? OP said they are a donut hole family - no donut hole family can afford UVA oos either
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 15:06     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:UMD and UMBC give good merit aid. Especially if you are instate.


I’ve heard UMD gives little in merit aid (except for the big awards).
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 14:58     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee has the Johnson scholarship which is a full ride and there is a good number of them, like 40 per year.

I think, however, that the gpa alone is not going to do it, your student will also need top test scores


USC gives half tuition scholarships to national merit finalists.


USC half tuition is still incredibly expensive



USC half tuition is about 32,000, that is $20,000 less than UVA OOS tuition.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 14:33     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee has the Johnson scholarship which is a full ride and there is a good number of them, like 40 per year.

I think, however, that the gpa alone is not going to do it, your student will also need top test scores


USC gives half tuition scholarships to national merit finalists.


USC half tuition is still incredibly expensive
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 14:29     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:University of Kansas has a chart online of merit aid. Looks good for 4.0 OOS student given its relatively low tuition. They people I know who went there really liked it.


We toured in the spring and my child loved it. The 4.0 can be weighted so it doesn't even require straight As.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 10:42     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
UMD and UMBC give good merit aid. Especially if you are instate.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 10:29     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:University of Georgia
.

Georgia is test required so those need to be high too.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 10:28     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Washington and Lee has the Johnson scholarship which is a full ride and there is a good number of them, like 40 per year.

I think, however, that the gpa alone is not going to do it, your student will also need top test scores


USC gives half tuition scholarships to national merit finalists.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 10:24     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.
my 4.0 kid didn’t even get into UNC, let alone Morehead scholarship. Try Indiana or Clemson.


Clemson only offered my 4.0/1500 kid in in-state tuition. It’s something but not much compared to others.


Clemson apparently tops out at about $12,500 per year or so.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 09:41     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.


OP here. Yes, we are in DC so no state schools here. But sadly we don’t qualify for any financial aid. We are in that weird place where our salaries are just slightly too high, but we aren’t really able to save much for college either.

Thanks for all the school suggestions..really helpful!


A lot of schools in this area (GMU, UDel) seem to know how to give just enough merit so that you end up paying in-state tuition + DCTAG. In other words you pay in state, the school gets an extra $10k per year. Even Maryland does this with the half Banneker-Key.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 09:40     Subject: Re:State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
University of Kansas has a chart online of merit aid. Looks good for 4.0 OOS student given its relatively low tuition. They people I know who went there really liked it.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 09:37     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.


OP here. Yes, we are in DC so no state schools here. But sadly we don’t qualify for any financial aid. We are in that weird place where our salaries are just slightly too high, but we aren’t really able to save much for college either.

Thanks for all the school suggestions..really helpful!


Students from donut hole families are in tough position if families make them ineligible for aid and can't/won't pay themselves. Merit becomes their only option and there are no merit scholarships at ivies or top SLACs.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2022 09:37     Subject: State schools with great merit aid for 4.0 student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in DC? Will you qualify for financial aid? How strong is your DD. Many top schools give generous financial aid. Use the net price calculators. Pitt Honors college gives I think 40 full ride chancellors scholarships. UNC Chapel Hill has the morehead scholarship, but you need to be nominated by your school.


OP here. Yes, we are in DC so no state schools here. But sadly we don’t qualify for any financial aid. We are in that weird place where our salaries are just slightly too high, but we aren’t really able to save much for college either.

Thanks for all the school suggestions..really helpful!


Are you trying to bring down the cost to instate or are you trying to get them lower? Some schools offer merit that will bring down the price but are still expensive (Pitt comes to mind) while others will end up almost free (Alabama)?