<p>Of course I've been applying to everything I can from fastweb.com, brokescholar, etc. Does anyone know of any large merit scholarships whose deadlines haven't passed. I will not recieve financial aid from anywhere but my parents say I need at least $20,000 in scholarships a year to attend any university. Any help would be appreciated.</p>
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Instead of looking for full ride scholarships from schools, couldn't you apply to scholarships that weren't so restrictive to which school that you must attend? There are a lot of scholarship programs that allow you to use the scholarship money at any college of your choice.
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I posted this in another thread on merit scholarships. Be aware that they maynot help much at 100% need based schools.</p>
<p>Let me explain this one. Let's say you want to attend a $40K a year school. Your EFC is $20K and you have $20K in independent merit aid. This school meets 100% of demonstrated need. How much is your family going to pay? At Harvard and Yale, your family will pay from $16,500 to $18,000. </p>
<p>Why, with all that merit money do you have to rake up that much? Because the college wants you to pay all you are able before they pay any. At Harvard at least, they credit the portion the child pays, about $3000. The rest they use to reduce the university's grant. The family obligation remains the same.</p>
<p>I know a number of highly successful people that graduated from an unranked regional Texas university. Half of the vice presidents in our company went there. We are the #4 defense contractor in the country.</p>