I Am In Need Of Financial Assistance

Paying for College
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<p>Hey! I'm a rising junior in NJ. I just started looking at colleges and found out that I will be paying for my college tution/board. We just bought a new house, so the finances are tight in my house. That being said, I need to find schools which will give me substantial merit money(I want to know exactly how much I will have to pay, unlike financial aid, which is up to the discretion of the college). I have no concrete test scores, but from practice tests from Barron's, Kaplan, PR, PR prep course, here are my scores:</p>

<p>PSAT-approximately 2200
ACT-32
SAT-(M=680;CR=680;writing=770)</p>

<p>The location of the college isn't too important, as I want to get a list going first. Thanks a lot!</p>

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<p>Anyone here?</p>

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<p>Try this thread <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=63770%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=63770&lt;/a> for the schools that give the best merit aid.</p>

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<p>You will never know "exactly how much I will have to pay" since merit money, with rare exceptions, is also up to the discretion of the college. There are usually score and/or grade cutoffs, but there is no guarantee that you will get any merit money just because you may qualify on paper. (Just like there's no guarantee that you'll get accepted to a particular school just because your stats are in or higher than the school's averages.)</p>

<p>Before you decide in May where to go to school, you'll know exactly how much you'll have to pay.</p>