<p>Wtrbear _ you don't have to accept the full ride. My son got full tuition scholarship to Case Western Reserve. He got that during regular admission selection. He decided to go forgo that. He just sent them a nice letter saying he appreciated the offer, but has decided to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>any information available out there on merit scholarships for bright minority/latino students?</p>
<p>i just got a full ride to Tulane</p>
<p>Scripps college (in Claremont, CA) offers a full scholarship and about 40 half scholarships based on merit. Application deadline is November 15. They fly candidates in whom they are interested out to the college for a Scholars Weekend in February.</p>
<p>Keep in mind this only applies to in-state students. UC will only award up to $9,000 a year for out-of-state students.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Stanford is more interested in grades than some of the other elite colleges. Looks like a lot of them accept about 42% wealthy kids to about 57% kids with need. You will probably get some scholarships but probably won't be a free ride situation.</p>
<p>No---its the whole picture.</p>
<p>Wow, this would have been a very informative thread to have known about during the application process...</p>
<p>Anyway, received a wonderful scholarship from the University of Washington Honors program (four-yr tuition, but not for housing/summer quarters), and it's called Honors Scholar Scholarship (there's also a 1-yr tuition version). It was a great surprise because it's new for 2008 and I really wasn't expecting it. In fact, I only found out about the award after my mom went through the letter because I was too excited after the "congratulations!" part to finish reading. :)</p>
<p>UW has many scholarship opportunities, including the awesome Husky Promise (for low-income families in WA)...read about them here:
University</a> Honors Program: Scholarships and Fellowships</p>
<p>I have two kids. Oldest was a National Merit Finalist and high GPA. Took a full ride to Iowa State - hated it and quit. He thought the kids and teaching there were unispiring. Second kid also a NMS and high achiever, went to Amherst and loved it. No merit aid and we paid through the nose, but it was a great education and great peer group. The second and third tier schools may be good deals but your super smart kid may be out of her element there.</p>
<p>Hampshire College
Harold F. Johnson Scholarship
$40,000 total
<a href="http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=453%5B/url%5D">http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=453</a></p>
<p>Washington College <a href="http://www.washingtoncollege.edu%5B/url%5D">www.washingtoncollege.edu</a>
members of either the National Honor Society or Cum Laude Society who are admitted to the College are guaranteed a merit-based academic tuition scholarship of at least $10,000 per year.</p>
<p>University of Alabama in Huntsville</p>
<p>Full Tuition for four years (No additional application required)</p>
<p>Full Tuition is guaranteed if you have SAT > 1360 (i.e. the combined score of reading and math) and GPA > 3.75 (on 4.0 scale).</p>
<p>Extra scholarships offered through seprate scholarship application! (make sure you meet the priority deadline - december)</p>
<p>Welcome</a> to UAH!</p>
<p>Awesome things about this university:-</p>
<p>1) Its a research intensive university especially in Engineering and Science. [ Last year, spent $65 million on research alone]</p>
<p>2) Its situated near and has a lot of collaborations with the world's fourth largest and US's second largest research park - Cummings Research park.</p>
<p>3) Its a 10 minute drive from NASA Space flight center where you can work and train as a co-operative student if you're a student of UAH. [It has an accredited co-operative program that only a 13 other universities in the US have]</p>
<p>4) It is an equal opportunity institution [ This means you're treated the same no matter what; of course with the exception that you'll have to pay double the tuition if you're out of Alabama because you don't pay taxes to the state]</p>
<p>5) Its "A Best Southeastern College" according to princeton review.</p>
<p>6) 92% of the faculty hold PhDs and the faculty to student ratio is 1:16.</p>
<p>7) It is situated in a beautiful, medium-sized city which is known to be a great fit for professionals. </p>
<p>8) Its got free Wi-Fi access in most buildings and offers free, unlimited, high-speed internet access to the residence halls.</p>
<p>9) Gives the option of having private rooms for the incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>10) Has very flexible programs (well, it does so for physics; for which I've been admitted) and has minimum no. of required courses thus allowing the students to construct the entire course according to their interest.</p>
<p>11) Beware though, its not the place for you if you're looking for partying or stuff. It is however, the place for you if you're nerdy.</p>
<p>I got a 60% scholarship for a SAT score of 1260 (out of 1600) and a GPA of 4.0 on the 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>I'll be writing the SAT again this month and will hopefully be getting a full tuition. And I'll be showered upon with extra scholarship as I've also applied for the departmental scholarship through the separate application. And guess what? I'm an international student and there's no special rules or prejudice against me (at least in the application/selection process)! </p>
<p>Surely, UAH is a hidden gem!</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>I got a full tuition scholarship to Temple University. I have a 4.0 with a 2060 SAT (730 Verbal, 700 Writing, 640 Math). It's a pretty nice university, although I'm going for musical theater. They have a good honors college, too.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what the actual name of the scholarship is. I think it's something like being named a Temple Scholar or something.</p>
<p>Sounds well and good, BUTTTT, my dd got in to BU, she is hispanic and 4.0 and we are upper middle class in california; she did FAFSA and Profile. She got 8k in LOANS. No BU for her. Has applied for 20 scholarships. Not a one did she receive. We just got a rejection letter today from McDonalds/Hacer program. They originally said that this was a merit scholarship. Letter said our "income"
didn't qualify her. Don't these people know what "merit" means?</p>
<p>Stanford University
Stanford Fund Scholarship
$41,030 Freshman year
Almost full ride for first year.
Acceptance was the hard part.</p>
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Stanford Fund Scholarship
$41,030 Freshman year
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Is it need based or merit based? Thanks!</p>
<p>^^
Aunt Bea -- I think something was screwy with BU this year: my D also had the stats for their "merit" awards as advertised on their site and we have a very high EFC. What happens? They give her 8K in NEED-BASED aid (??!!) but no merit. BU was not really in the running after she got into her more preferred schools.</p>
<p>I Would Like To Find Scholarships For Delware State University</p>
<p>Ashley:</p>
<p>The first place to look would be the website.</p>
<p>what scholarship can i get for mit? caltech? stanford?
my family income is like 40,000 and i know stanford has a thing with everything free for under 60,000 but is thi s only for 08-09 year?</p>