<p>Many highly selective/competitive schools provide NO merit scholarships, and many others limit merits to the National Merits. (For example, Northwestern made it very clear in their info session that all students who are admitted are of sufficiently high caliber that they all deserve merit, so they provide none and limit their aid to need-based). That said, there are schools (many listed already) that do provide merit scholarships if test scores/credentials are at the top of their admission pool. When we started this process several years ago, I was surprised by how little non-needs based money was provided to top tier kids at the top schools who were short of National Merit. If you are interested/willing to look at a step below the selective/competitive/elite schools, there is quite a bit of merit money available for top students. A lot depends upon where your D stands re: test scores and what tier of school she is aiming for.</p>