Can Transfer students get merit based aid?

Transfer Students
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<p>Could I get any merit based aid as a transfer applicant? I know aid is pretty hard to come by, but any little bit would help. I'm at a school (Tufts) that has really high fees and a pretty competitive applicant pool which is obviously pretty hard to get merit aid from. When I applied to colleges as a rising freshman, Rhodes gave me 16,000 per year. If I got that kind of aid from Rhodes, could I get anything similar from say Tulane or Rhodes applying as a transfer for sophomore year? </p>

<p>In H.S. I had a 3.5 overall but I took the hardest classes possible and had a 3.6 before 2nd semester Sr year. I got into Tufts but I probably could have gotten some aid based on the other applicants I've seen who got into different merit based honors scholarships.</p>

<p>made a 2270 on the SAT</p>

<p>I had a lot of extracurics. Not going to name them all, but they were probably what got me into Tufts and Davidson. Hopefully those could help me out for applying as a transfer.</p>

<p>In college I'm just trying to do my best. I'll probably end up with a first semester GPA of 3.7. I'm sure if I worked my a s s off I could make 3.9-4.0 Could this get me any aid? Do transfer students even get aid at all?</p>

<p>I'm just starting to realize that paying 50,000 per year for this stuff is probably really not worth it.</p>

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<p>Not really. For the most part, merit scholarships are very, very rare. I would recommend you transfer to your in-state college, or a community college.</p>

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<p>Some universities do have merit scholarships for transfer students, it depends on the school. I know that my university [Illinois</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://www.iit.edu%5DIllinois”>http://www.iit.edu) has transfer and international merit scholarships. You just need to look at the web sites and ask the admission offices of the universities you are interested in.</p>

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<p>Most colleges have very limited funding for transfer students. Unless you’re exceptional in an area and really stand out as a “must-have”, then there probably wouldn’t be much merit aid.</p>