<p>^ Very competitive.</p>
<p>Duke Freshman Merit Aid:
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<p>Duke has 60 full-tuition scholarships, so far tougher to get than to get in to HYPSM.</p>
<p>Emory’s are also full-tuition as well, I believe. They have more for Oxford College of Emory.</p>
<p>^^^
Right…and those are likely ones given to tippy-top amazing resume students who Duke knows will get ivy admissions…so the hope is to lure them to Duke.</p>
<p>Has the OP come back to her thread?</p>
<p>The most important thing for the OP to do is to find several schools, at very least one, that are certain to take her and are affordable without any conditions. Such school are usually the ones within commuting distance. Guaranteed full ride is not easy to get even with great stats, especially when you want to go away to school. Once that is covered, OP can check out any number of schools with full ride merit awards and go for them. She does have the numbers that give her some chance in snagging one, but these are never guaranteed and are lottery tickets to everyone. But you can’t get one without going for it. OP should just make sure that all of the colleges on her list for which she is trying to get this kind of award even offers it. No sense fishing in an empty pond. And she should also look for schools that offer such awards where she is definitely one of the top students. Yes, she can give Duke, Emory and Rice, et al a go as well, but the competition for those awards is fierce and they usually go to those who have some other hook the schools want. Don’t know what she has on her resume that would give her that hook. Looking at Pitt’s Chancellor’s Awards, University of South Carolina has some big time awards, and schools less known than those would put her in the running with a greater chance of getting something that she says she needs, a full ride.</p>
<p>CA CC is also a path to UCs.</p>
<p>@dixiemitsy </p>
<p>This student has the stats that she doesn’t need to start at a CC first. </p>
<p>@mom2collegekids :</p>
<p>Doesn’t have to, but depending on where she wants to graduate from, may want to.</p>
<p>Certainly, she can go to a UC directly, if the family will pay.</p>