<p>ITT, let's list the best scholarships/awards that are based on merit rather than need.</p>
<p>I'll start off:
Intel ISEF
Intel ISTS
Google Science Fair
Siemens Math/Science Competition
Coca-Cola Scholars</p>
<p>There is already a section of this forum called “Other Major Scholarships and Competitions”. If you look there you will see most of the ones you have already listed here…and more. </p>
<p>These are sub forum listings in the Financial Aid section of this site. Look there.</p>
<p>Actually, I think there is a good case for a master list of merit-only scholarships not sponsored by a single college that have no need-based component or income eligibility requirements. Lots of scholarship listings do not clearly note that need is influential until students have already spent a good deal of time investigating them.</p>
<p>I don’t see any master lists…
And there are some that seem to be merit, but actually factor need as well, like arabrab said.</p>