<p>According to Vandy literature, ED applicants are considered for merit scholarships on an equal basis with RD applicants. Most colleges use scholarships to attract top candidates to their schools, so offering them to ED applicants would not be beneficial because they are already commited to enrolling. Any current students able to confirm that they, or someone they know, applied ED and was given a merit scholarship?</p>
<p>If a student has such good qualifications that he/she might be eligible for a large merit award, why the need to apply ED? It limits your options, and it does remove the incentive to award a large merit scholarship. </p>
<p>No student who needs the ED boost to get admitted is likely to be awarded a large merit award.</p>
<p>Go RD.</p>
<p>Not everyone who applies ED is doing it for the ED boost. If you are 100% sure that the ED school is your 1st choice, why not find out if you got in earlier and not have to apply to other schools? Technically, applying ED simply for the ED boost is the wrong reason. ED should be because that is the best fit, #1 choice school for the applicant.</p>
<p>I understand that point. In general, though, most people advise not applying ED if money is a consideration. If you are looking for a merit scholarship, I am assuming money is a consideration.</p>
<p>My son does have a large merit award, but he applied regular decision round. I don't have any info about ED accepted students getting a merit scholarship.</p>
<p>Well even if money 'isn't a consideration', many of those scholarships are 100k+ total. That is mad money no matter what your financial situation is.</p>
<p>i know at least one person in my year (class of 09) who did ED and got a full tuition merit scholarship</p>
<p>Ya, I am wondering this also, because my stats are pretty good(4.3 gpa, 1500 old sat score, etc.), these stats seem to be in the upper 25% of vandies admit pool, I really know that I want to go there, so I did early decision, also, my family will be able to afford regaurdless but as anoth poster stated 120k for 4 x 30k per year tuition is still money that we could use. So, i guess my question is are they gonna discount me in considering me for merit scholarships just because I knew that vandy was my #1 choice school(also, I mean this with all my heart, even if I got into stanford, yale, princeton, harvard, I would take vandy over them most likely just because I loved my visit and all of the research I have done has pointed me towards it)?</p>