Best schools that give the most merit based aid

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<p>Half-Mexican male.</p>

<p>university of rochester has a really good financial aid program. sure its pricey but they cover you with a majority of grants, and as little loans as possible.
ive a friend who pretty much got a full ride. only has to pay half the dorm fee.</p>

<p>My D got full ride of Washington and Lee. The cost of tuition, room and board, books and etc comes to about 52K. The scholarship is 53K renewable for 4 years with a 2.7 gpa. She thought the gpa requirement was easy. </p>

<p>Also Univ. of Richmond 34,670 yearly-renewable;American University 23k; Dominican of CA 30K; Loyola of NO 17k; Bentley 12k; and others ranging. The best ranked would be Bentley. The results of the top school has yet to come UPenn</p>

<p>I didnā€™t think UPEnn or any of the Ivies give merit scholarshipsā€¦only need based.</p>

<p>people confuse need based college grants with merit aid sometimes</p>

<p>bayoubabe saidā€“
"My D got full ride of Washington and Lee. The cost of tuition, room and board, books and etc comes to about 52K. The scholarship is 53K renewable for 4 years with a 2.7 gpa. She thought the gpa requirement was easy. "</p>

<p>Do you recall if there were any other criteria for getting this dough such that even if you had a 2.7 gpa , and u did not satisfy these other , non merit based, criteria, you wd not get the dough?</p>

<p>I guess merit means something you did through your own hard work. If it is something you did not do through hard work, I guess it is not merit, but just a demographic category that you happen to be born into.</p>

<p>ohhowrandom saidā€“
ā€œive a friend who pretty much got a full rideā€ [at URoch]</p>

<p>Do you know if this scholarship for your friend was solely merit based? Do you know what the criteria were to get it?</p>

<p>a little more info on UR (looks kinda nebulous and non transparent; ya gotta go to a University of Rochester ā€˜star chamberā€™ ā€¦or a hotel of your choice to see if youā€™re sufficiently meritorious.)</p>

<p><a href=ā€œhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-rochester/793136-facts-about-merit-scholarship-u-rochester.html[/url]ā€>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-rochester/793136-facts-about-merit-scholarship-u-rochester.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Interesting. A 3.3 GPA is required to keep 100% of the need-based aid after freshman year. Every 0.1 under 3.3 drops the need-based award by 10%. Too risky for my D to attend despite an otherwise excellent FA package.</p>

<p>Concerning Richmond, they have about 50 full-tuition and full-tuition/room/board scholarships. However, they award more than 50 because the yield is about 60%. In addition, there are about 100 $15,000 presidential scholarships awarded.</p>

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<p>az, coos site. It seems to dovetail with that recent disclosure of schools that supposedly are loan free. Here is a link to a related threadā€¦</p>

<p><a href=ā€œhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/52133-schools-known-good-merit-aid.html[/url]ā€>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/52133-schools-known-good-merit-aid.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Marietta College, itā€™s a really goos school- especially for petroleum engineering, English, and Education.
Ranked higher than Cornell and John Hopkins in after graduation satisfaction</p>

<p>umm okā€¦iā€™m an international high school student and i wanted to know whether Virginia offers any sort of financial aid to international studentsā€¦</p>

<p>^^^</p>

<p>Did you look at UVaā€™s website?</p>

<p>from the VA websiteā€¦
Do you offer financial aid to international students? Does this affect my chances of being admitted?</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the University of Virginia does not offer any need-based financial aid to foreign national students.</p>

<p>It looks like intā€™l students can apply or be considered for UVaā€™s top scholarship, but that one is very competitive and canā€™t be counted on.</p>

<p>If you need help financially, you need to either apply to schools that give FA to intā€™l students, or apply to schools that will give you merit money.</p>

<p>How much can your family pay?</p>

<p>Something in the region of $7000 per year.</p>

<p>One more thing. What about NYU? Iā€™m thinking of applying to Stern but on the website it says that funding for international students is very limited.</p>

<p>Also, can the fact that I have relatives who are U.S. citizens help in eligibility for financial aid awards?</p>

<p>NYU??? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL</p>

<p>NYU is the poster child for giving lousy aid. Someone whose family can only pay $7k per year would have a huge gap at NYU.</p>

<p>As for having family in the USā€¦all that would help is with getting loans for college IF they are willing to cosign. There are few people that are willing to co-sign tens of thousands of dollars in loans for relatives. </p>

<p>Youā€™d need to borrow about $40k per year. Any relative that would co-sign for $160k in loans should have his head examined. (not to mention, most wouldnā€™t even qualify).</p>

<p>Hmmm. Well, so if thatā€™s the case, could you help me out a bit? Iā€™m looking for decent undergrad business programs in colleges which give aid to intā€™l students (as Iā€™ve said, this is a BIG requirement for me). Are these colleges good?(in terms of aid as well as their courses)
Villanova
Georgetown
Washington
Amherst
Delaware
Williams
I donā€™t mind doing undergrad in eco, so Iā€™ve included some LACs as well. Could you suggest a few more good colleges?</p>

<p>Washington is the University of Washington in St. Louis.</p>

<p>Have you looked at each schoolsā€™ website for aid for intā€™ls? You need to do that so that you arenā€™t listing schools that donā€™t give aid to intā€™ls.</p>

<p>UDel costs over $36k per year to attend and it does not give aid to intā€™l studentsā€¦
Please note that Federal and University financial assistance is available only to U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents.</p>

<p>Since you need a lot of aid, you need to stick with the few schools that give lots of aid to accepted intā€™ls. </p>

<p>However, keep in mind that just because your family says it can only afford $8k per year, a full need school may say differently. Many families think that they can only afford X dollars only to find out the school expects them to pay 2X or whatever.</p>

<p>Even if you have high stats, I donā€™t think a school that gives merit scholarships would work since your family can only pay $8k per year. Youā€™d likely have a big gap.</p>

<p>I suggest you go to the intā€™l forum to get ideas of which schools are the most likely able to help you financially since most schools would not be affordable to you.</p>

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<p>University of Washington is in Washington state.</p>

<p>Washington University is in St. Louis</p>