<p>Looking for New England schools who are strong on merit aide. I know we can pull the names out of the larger merit aide thread -- but it is so much information. I have a 2010 grad who is looking to stay in NE.</p>
<p>More info on my daughter:</p>
<p>This is her data:
Public High School -- top 2 or 3 in Massachusetts -- no class rank (but if I had to guess I'd say she is top 10%--the school is full of overachievers)
Weighted GPA 4.1 this year so far, with slight upward trend
Varsity math team 3 years -- will be 4
Model United Nations -- will be 2 years
Rotary youth leadership conference
Academic Bowl team 3 years -- will be 4
Worked at local preschool in summer will be 2 years
Teaching assistant at a residential camp (at worcester polytechnic institute) last summer for 2 weeks, focussed on middle school girls who are interested in math and science -- will be 2 years
Girl Scouts -- working on the gold award which is sort of like the equivalent of eagle scout
NRA rated marksman at our local sportsman club and she is the club administrator for the youth program
On the board of the community charitable foundation </p>
<p>And now there is an unusual activity: she is a volunteer ski instructor for children with disabilities at a mountain 120 miles from our home. She has over 500 hours already in her high school career -- will have close to (or over)1000 hours by graduation. It is a peer to peer program and is a total commitment from November to April. She is a mentor this year and next as well. Huge family commitment as well...so I am hoping that our many sacrifices to get her there will pay off beyond the intrinsic good will. Again, this is community service.</p>
<p>Taking 1 AP and 5 honors (including 1 virtual high school honors class -- environmental science) Next year she will take AP stats, AP calculus and hopes to take AP physics, but I am thinking that may be alot with all of her college applications too.</p>
<p>PSAT's are at the 96 percentile! That was a 14 point improvement over last year! </p>
<p>then a possible liability...
only 2 years of a foreign language (Spanish) -- this is a long story.... but she is hoping to take a college Italian class over the summer...and she studied Latin at a local monestary for 3 years before the Spanish disaster!</p>
<p>She would like to major in math possibly.</p>
<p>This is my daughter's short list -- but we are thinking of adding or dropping a school or 2 (with the exception of WPI, Dartmouth and Northeastern which are her top 3) depending on the merit aide possibility.</p>
<p>Brown
Providence College
WPI
RPI
Dartmouth (1st choice, but a reach!)
Northeastern
Boston University
Amherst
Williams
Colby
Bates
Bowdoin
UVM honors college
St. Anselms</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the aid at all of these place, I can however tell you that the Maine LACs offer only need based aid.</p>
<p>She will likely see some merit money from Northeastern but their current merit award at the top is 16K unless she were to get one of the few awards which pay full ride. For those you need to be in the top one percent of applicants. They will look at her combined gpa, and sat or act scores. Unfortunately being from MA may hurt her in terms of merit money from NEU. They are all over the place with awards and geography plus intended major seem to play a role.</p>
<p>I don't think any of these schools give merit aid, just need-based:</p>
<p>Brown
Dartmouth (1st choice, but a reach!)
Amherst
Williams
Colby
Bates
Bowdoin</p>