<p>OP, you’re getting good advice here. @ucbalumnus and @Consolation’s questioning of my categories is helpful and should be considered. Not that they’re correct, but these are fine distinctions we’re making; each of us has our own reasons for making them. Of course, we could argue about how fine they are, too: @Consolation is just wrong about PSU’s lofty OOS admissions standards 
I have, however, reason to pay close attention to anything @ucbalumnus says about CA schools.</p>
<p>@shawnspencer is correct that Lafayette has a Marquis Scholarship that this year was worth $24K (generally offered to the top 15% of applicants), but they also had a new Marquis Fellowship this year that provided $40K in merit and there were 20 of them. </p>