Any merit based or need based scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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I know CMU is a great university for CS. Do they offer any need based or merit base scholarships? Please post web links. Thanks

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http://www.cmu.edu/

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Yes. They are moderately generous, too.

https://www.cmu.edu/finaid/scholarships/university.html

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Thanks

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CS is a highly competitive major at CMU. Your student would need to be a very very TIPPY TOP student to garner any merit aid as a CS major. Most of CMU aid is need based aid.

What is your family income…because that will determine your potential aid.

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My S17 just got need based AND merit from CMU – will be attending next year. He is not in CS, however. I get the sense that his interests were outside of the norm of CMU applicants, which is why resulted in the merit aid.

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There’s no aid whatsoever for internationals but citizens can get some scholarships. They don’t meet need, are need aware, and CS acceptance rates are around 5% so it takes someone truly exceptional (demonstratedly so) to get in with merit.

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They offer needs based aid. Very little merit money.

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How good is the need based aid that they offer for US citizens?

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I think they only offer merit based scholarship to rich people that they really want. Otherwise, they will give you sufficient need based scholarship. I could be wrong though.

@nynycasino1234 I think it depends how much they want you =P. I heard stories where people have the same EFC (or less!) had a lower aid.

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@Thumper daughter is doing cs reserach in summer in a highly ranked differnt university, and maintain 4.0 GPA at an elite prep school, have some other national level awards and have interesting ec inside and oitside of school

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Our family income is atound 95 K

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@nynycasino1234 family income isn’t the whole picture. It is your EFC (expected family contribution).

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I will calculate the numbers, as daughter wants to apply CMU next year

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Currently getting a need based aid of $50k every year of high school, hoping we get similar award in college, thanks

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CMU has a Financial Aid Estimator which is more detailed than a NPC: https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/financial-aid-estimator which should give you a more accurate picture of the need-based aid they would give.

CMU seems to use preferred packaging to students they really want.

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That is so helpful, thanks

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I am in CS, and I got the Carnegie Scholarship (merit-based). There was no separate application, and I found out after I was accepted. Here is a link with details: https://www.cmu.edu/finaid/scholarships/university.html

I know a few students from CS as well as other majors who have received the same scholarship. The amount I got is $7k/year, and that is what I have heard from others as well (but I think the amount also varies a bit). Hope that helps!