<p>fire123 - I don’t understand your post at all. None of the Ivies give any merit aid at all based upon my research and my understanding of the term “merit aid”. English is my native tongue. Financial aid is not merit aid. Financial aid considers your families financial ability to pay the cost of college, nothing more. It happens that some of the Ivies and a few Ivy-like schools have exceptionally good financial aid and for the families of students who get in to those colleges, their cost of attendance may be lower than if they got into another private college or the state flagship. So what, it still doesn’t make it merit aid, which you receive because you achieved some meritorious mark.</p>
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<p>If your point is that money if fungible, we need to alert the news for this is truly a monumental discovery (and should entitle you and yours to merit money at all colleges in the US).</p>