<p>There’s the rub, schools that will offer you a lot of merit money do so because you would not otherwise attend them. Very few top schools offer a dime in merit aid, though a few like Duke and Chicago do offer some.</p>
<p>HYPS would ask aprox 10% of your parent’s income plus a student summer earnings contribution, so under $20K. It gets more complicated if your assets are above average and some of them look at home equity. And it’s not HYPS type schools, it’s literally only these 4 schools that give anything close.</p>