<p>Here you go; our original research list.</p>
<p>First column is name of college
Second column is % of students receiving merit aid
Third column is median merit award</p>
<p>As you can see, the classic “most prestigious of all” colleges tend not to give merit aid.
Moving into "still quite prestigious in anyone’s mind but located in relatively unpopulated parts of America"or into engineering oriented schools (e.g., CMU, which isn’t here because child rejected it) starts getting you some merit aid.</p>
<p>Good luck. Data is from the USN&WR Big Book for 2009</p>
<p>Kei</p>
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<pre><code> % $
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<p>U Rochester 33 9
Grinnell 32 10
Muhlenberg 30 11
U Michigan 29 6
Beloit 25 12
Franklin M’lll 24 13
Brandeis 22 20
UVM 19 2
U Wisconsin 17 2
Oberlin 17 10
Hampshire 16 5
Wash U 14 5
U Chicago 11 11
Dickinson 9 10
Carleton 8 3
Colorado 6 10
Macalester 6 5
Bard 3 11
Trinity 2 28
Bucknell 2 12
Swarthmore 1 34 (some kind of DelMarVa scholarship)
Brown 0 0
Bates 0 0
Vassar 0 0
Middlebury 0 0
Columbia 0 0
Connecticut 0 0
Harvard 0 0
Wesleyan (Ct)0 0</p>