Thank you for that info. It’s one of the things I’ve been wondering. Haven’t done FAFSA yet, so the EFC I’m counting on is from NPC. This is a difficult process for parents and kids alike. Is your child happy where they ended up?
If your daughter likes LACs, it would make sense to look at LACs that might grant merit to someone with her stats, in addition to the state flagship. While some of highly selective LACs do not offer merit, there are many great schools just a notch down in selectivity that do.
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This New York Times article discusses aspects of this topic:
Some LACs will provide merit awards. Beloit is one, Rhodes College is another. Beloit also has the Midwest Flagship Match, which means that if you are a resident of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, or Minnesota, they will charge you the same for tuition as the in-state tuition of your flagship.
There are more, as well.
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Would it make sense to focus on expanding that list to include more need-blind colleges that commit to cover 100% need?
With an uw 4.0 she should have many options - maybe try ACT in case she happens to test better with their scheme?
For a high achieving student, I would expend energy into identifying well endowed LACs across the country that cover 100% of need and are need blind.
With an unweighted 4.0 GPA, she should be looking at test optional schools…Fairtest.org
Some have decent merit aid!
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If you are looking at state flagship here are some other options with merit
Alabama automatic merit brings tuition to 6000 a year
https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/out-of-state/
University of Arizona has generous merit
Florida State possible candidate for OOS tuition waiver would bring tuition down to $6500 a year
https://admissions.fsu.edu/first-year/scholarships/
Varsity athletics plus serious theater sounds very difficult to pull off at most colleges. What is she hoping to major in? (Theater? Something more poli-sci-ish?)