financial aid full scholarships

<p>what school offer full scholarships, especially above and beyond tuition. My daughter is 11 and will bein 9th grade next year. top of the class in everything academice. taking calculus 2 foreign languages already has tons of high school and college credits. I was rcently in a car accident and have a neurological disorder which has caused me to be unable to work. Myhusband if 13 years has left because of my disability and Im left to raise 6 kids alone. we have had to give up house car etc...but education has been priority. we had to take her out of private school and she has been doing extremely well in an inner city public school. </p>

<p>I need to know what schools will either have a merit scholarship opportunity or will provide full aid for a family of 7 with a very low income. I can barely afford the application or visit but will do what I can to make it happen. Please help and let me know as we want to apply ASAP</p>

<p>exter offers a free education for families that make under 75,000 a year.
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<p>Most, if not all, will offer full scholarships like Exeter e.g. SPS, Andover, Groton, Deerfield, etc. Many will also provide stipends for travel, computers, monthly allowance, sometimes clothing for very low income families.</p>

<p>A friend of mine went to NMH and received full tuition, plus stipend and travel allowance, and she was only an exchange student from another BS. I'm going to need that kind of help as well for d, so am interested in the answers here.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help from those who gave good sound advice. I didnt know that there was so much help out there. That is amazing. I was looking at merit scholarships but most schools dont offer them. it is all finacial based. I wonder how that will work out being self employed. It wasnt till I got a letter from a school telling me they offered things above and beyond tuition. I didnt know it was possible.</p>

<p>Thanks again for all the good responses.</p>

<p>The schools are very very generous. If you qualify, not only do they give free tuition, but free board, and they may include books, laundry, travel, and music lessons as well. Don't be afraid to ask for waivers for the application fees, and also for the SSS financial aid forms. As far as being self employed, you have to submit your tax returns to show your income but if your accident was recent and affects this years income you can explain that in advance and then you have to get your tax return completed ASAP in January and get it submitted as well.</p>

<p>in the case if your D is that outstanding you should try applying to Emma Willard. it's a girls school but it offers around 5 Davis Scholarship (up to 100% of the total tuition) for domestic applicants each year</p>

<p>I know it's pretty late to answer cindysellsindy's question now, but for those seeking for full scholarships to enter a boarding school in the future: Apart from the great schools mentioned above; each year - Taft, Westminster, Andover, Lawrenceville and Emma Willard offers a number of Davis Scholarships to both domestic students and international students, which cover up to 100% of the tuition and waive a lot of other fees for you, and will continue to support your college education. </p>

<p>Also, I heard that Emma Willard offers 2 scholarships up to full tuition (but unlike Davis Scholarship these only support you until you graduate from there) to international students. I'm sorry but I forgot the name of the Scholarship so you may want to contact their admission office to get more details on this.</p>

<p>Don't forget that Mercersburg offers 3 scholarships for incoming 9th and 10th students every year: Regents, Mercersburg and Legacy scholarships.</p>

<p>Oh and Peddie also offers the Annenberg Scholarship for boarding students whose possess a strength in the community service field.</p>

<p>For domestic students, to the best of my knowledge - Emma Willard, Taft, Andover, SPS, Miss Porter's, Lawrenceville, Choate etc. does offer some other scholarships (some may not cover the full tuition) as well, but they're limited to geographical background or ability of such or other factors.</p>

<p>Well, what can I say? There is a lot of support for financing a bs education these days! Good luck!</p>

<p>Mercersburg offers very good merit scholarships, probably one of the few schools that cc members apply to that offer merit anything.</p>

<p>St. Paul's has something like a merit scholarship program, but you would have to check the site because they only offer it to a select few states (I'd be betting yours is on there, the states aren't like New York but less populated places like uhh Colorado Indiana just places you wouldn't really be expecting scholarships to be designated to.)</p>

<p>And of course most of the TSAO offer full aid to those under 75k.</p>

<p>great post binhguyen, thank you.</p>

<p>kinda dispels the cc conventional opinion that merit scholarships are only offered by very low tiered schools desperate for applicants. I also think the cc population in general, e.g. members and non-members, regular posters as well as consistent observers, apply to a wider range of diverse schools than the posts seem indicate but, for whatever reasons, many choose not to reveal their aspirations.</p>