<p>Awhile back someone shared a link for an article (WSJ maybe?) That had a listing of all of the colleges with average aid that each granted, with FA and merit aid broken out separately. Anyone know where I can find it?</p>
<p><a href=“Colleges and Universities That Award Merit Aid - Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Colleges and Universities That Award Merit Aid - Graphic - NYTimes.com;
<p>It’s dated however. Wish I could find a more current list.</p>
<p>Thanks, I knew someone would know right where to find it! I wanted it because it was the best source I could think of to quickly find which colleges do not offer any hope of merit aid.</p>
<p>I dont think that list is going to help you like you think it will. If a school awards 10 merit awards at 25000, then it would be 25k…but only for 10 likely tippy top students. so if you weren’t a tippy top applicant,you would have not hope.</p>
<p>you would be better off telling us your stats and how much merit YOU need, and then we could tell you where to apply. also include home state and major.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids Yes, thanks, I know that the odds are not great, but just wanted to be aware of colleges with zero chance. It would need to be substantial merit to be worthwhile. EFC is all over the map on the NPC so I will just ball park it at 40k. So since receiving merit nullifies need aid, I would say merit would have to be 30k plus to make a difference. SUNY COA is $21026 less any merit or outside scholarships, so that is really hard to complete with. We are looking for schools that are at minimum the caliber of Bing which is an admission and financial safety, but S would only attend as a last resort. </p>
<p>This table is not very helpful and may be misleading. First, it lists only in state tuition while the scholarship data is for all students. Second, an average amount means nothing as it may have a wide or narrow range and the number of recipient at certain merit aid level can be big or small. A full histogram would be much more informative.
One example of misleading is the 46% students receiving merit aid at UMich vs the 9% at Purdue. Indeed, you will have a much better chance to receive larger scholarships at Purdue than at Umich, particularly for oos students. Not to mention there was Michigan Merit Scholarship available at that time for in state students which has been gone since last year.</p>
<p>Try this:
<a href=“http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/”>http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/</a>
Look at the column for “Avg non-need-based aid”</p>
<p>@GMTplus7 Thank you</p>