<p>yeah, I’m a male WASP, so its definitely not about minorities. Sure there are black and hispanic Richmond Scholars. Maybe its not just about the numbers, although Richmond scholars tend to have outstanding numbers. Don’t blame the fact that a committee may not have liked your daughter on the presence of minorities. Sometimes things just dont pan out the way you’d like them to</p>
<p>I’m pretty much done with applications, but I want to know who on here has had the most luck with merit at these schools…</p>
<p>I’m out-of-state to each of these, but have a 35 ACT, 4.0 GPA UW 4.58 W, PSAT 211 but no NMSF. Also have 10+ extracurriculars, 5 w/ leadership positions, and over 200 hours of community service. </p>
<p>U of Florida
U of Texas-Austin
U of Miami
U of Georgia
Boston College
Arizona State
Vanderbilt
Ohio State</p>
<p>Anywhere outside the University of California</p>
<p>Anyone know about merit-aid at Bard College? Please please</p>
<p>^^^
what does their website say? Have you emailed their scholarship office?</p>
<p>Grinnell has excellent merit aid and incredible need based aid, not to mention that their total cost to attend seem to be about 5-7K cheaper than comp schools. Many schools of that caliber do not even offer merit scholarships and cost about 48-52k per year to attend. Grinnell is 45K this year which makes it a “great value” school. </p>
<p>People really should consider when they are factoring, not only what potential merit aid the school offers, but also the overall price tag. </p>
<p>If a school is 5k cheaper per year, that may not sound like much. Now multiply that by 4 and you just saved 20k over four years. </p>
<p>Now if the school offers great merit aid you can save even more. Even if you only get a 5k per year merit scholarship that is 20k. 20k+20k=40k that is almost a whole year of attendance at grinnell free. That is significant when you may also be getting need based too. And, if you don’t qualify for need based, that is great too. </p>
<p>There may be other great schools like Grinnell out there that offer merit aid, but what we found is that there are very few that offer merit aid and have a sticker price of 45k are ranked that high.</p>
<p>Grinnell Scholarships [Types</a> of Financial Aid - Scholarship List](<a href=“http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/financialaid/typesofaid/scholarships/list/]Types”>http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/financialaid/typesofaid/scholarships/list/)</p>
<p>COA for 2009-2010 school year
Tuition & Fees – $36,476
Room & Board – $8,536
When determining eligibility for assistance, allowances are made for the following expenses:
Books & Supplies - $900
Personal Expenses - $1,100
Travel Expenses - $200-1,100 depending upon home state/country.</p>
<p>Total COA… about $47-48k per year. </p>
<p>It seems like their own COA page neglects to include books, personal, travel, etc in their TOTAL which other schools include. They list the costs, but don’t include it in the total - odd. </p>
<p>They do meet 100% of need ( includes low capped loans and work-study) for US residents and about 85% of “some” int’l students.</p>
<p>Apps due Jan 2.</p>
<p>This is a good source for those who missed scholarship deadlines at other school and for int’ls who need aid. :)</p>
<p>^Good point mom2collegekids.</p>
<p>47-48k is still way cheaper than a lot of schools that we looked at that were well over 50k some as high as 54K with books, travel etc…We calculated that many were 20-28k more expensive over a four year period than Grinnell and Grinnell also has merit aid and meets 100% of need too. Many of these highly ranked schools do not offer any merit aid and or if they do it’s only a small award like 1-2k.</p>
<p>What school, Josh?</p>
<p>Add Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA to the list of schools with the most merit based aid. It is hard to beat this school for those in S.W. PA & Eastern Ohio. Its a great school and for good students that won’t get into to the Ivys, can get into the sub-ivys, but don’t want a lot of debt. Its hard to find a school with better merit aid at the price. It is only about 38K per year incl. room & board. My daughter, who had great grades, but less than stellar SATs got 15K per year plus some need based aid too. All totaled it costs her about the same as going to a state school.</p>
<p>Well, I’m home schooled, and Mercyhurst was the lowest rated school I applied to and the ONLY one that didn’t offer a scholarship (because, according to the admissions counselor, it’s ALL in the numbers and not even remotely based on individual merit), so if you are a good tester and go to a crappy high school, Mercyhurst might be the place for you…</p>
<p>i am happy to be part of this,i will want to know if you give a full scholarship and chance to work along side if we could pay as we work an d to earn some income</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>What are you asking? </p>
<p>Are you a senior?</p>
<p>Are you an int’l?</p>
<p>If so, you can’t work as “pay as you go.” You need to demonstrate that you have complete funding to get your visa to come here.</p>
<p>what school do you think will give the most aid to out-of state students?
Northeastern, Penn State, UMD.</p>
<p>Of the 3 schools you listed, I believe only Northeastern is a private. PUBLIC universities have an obligation to give aid first & foremost to their residents. So of the three, I’d suspect the best chance of an OOS student getting significant merit aid would be NE.</p>
<p>Nikara,</p>
<p>Any advice on interview for Trustee Scholarship at USC? My son just got his letter today.</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University | Prospective Students](<a href=“Rice”>Rice)
Allen International Scholarship<br>
Outstanding applicants who are foreign nationals<br>
Full tuition
Renewable for four years</p>
<p>This will be mine <3</p>
<p>Are there any very good schools that guarantee full rides to minority students with great stats? (I have 4.0 unweighted, am ranked 1 out of 425, and got 2400 on the SAT.)</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>What minority are you?</p>
<p>Are you male or female?</p>
<p>University of Delaware has a very big merit scholarship program. They invite the top 100 applicants to be Distinguished Scholars; you have to visit for a weekend in March and everyone gets at least $21k a year, with ~10-15 full rides given out too. About 30 students end up taking them up on this offer every year.</p>