<p>Hendrix is a small private school near Little Rock, Arkansas that offers very generous merit aid.</p>
<p>gstein, since you are from Texas, I am guessing you mean Oklahoma when you say OU? Ohio University which would provide full in state tuition for an ACT score of 34. Sounds like Oklahoma is much more generous.</p>
<p>...and OSU can mean Ohio State, Oregon State, or Oklahoma state... :)</p>
<p>OP, you should read the "what I've learned about full ride scholarships" thread.</p>
<p>check out Oberlin</p>
<p>if your S is up for an adventure, check out the Honors College at U of South Carolina.His stats should make him an excellent candidate there. It shrinks the large school down to a manageable size(housing,class size,advising,etc) while affording the opportunities of a large research U. S attends there (OOS from NY) with a full ride as they allow the stacking of scholarships up to the cost of education (which is tuition plus room and board plus books,etc) and they award in state tuition rates to out of staters who get merit scholarships above a certain amount .His experience there has been quite positive,although he started his search looking for a large school with big time athletics parameter rather than a small school .Its in the capitol city of Columbia, which has a regional airport quite closeby ...maybe 10-15 minutes from the campus.</p>
<p>I've never heard The Ohio State Univ referred to as OU, but you might also consider Marshall.</p>
<p>From what I remember, the OP stated midwest - seems like a lot of the posters have greatly expanded the midwest - to include most of the country.</p>
<p>Yep, I thought of Kalamazoo College, also (Michigan). Especially if he wants to study abroad.</p>
<p>S had similar stats and received a full tuition offer from U Mich. Engineering. We are instate, but he facebooked with a student who was his statistical/academic twin who received a full OOS tuition offer.</p>
<p>Can't hurt to try, if he is interested in a Big Ten experience.</p>
<p>go to the naia.org site and see the member list of schools (by state). many of these are private 4 year schools. if he is considering participation in a sport, there may be some $$$'s . my d had an offer of full-tuition (revenue sport) at an naia......private 4 year, small lac. </p>
<p>quick list of midwest privates.........trinity, southwestern in texas, william jewell, grinnell, st. olaf, macalester, univ. of tulsa, oklahoma city university, friends univ., baker university</p>
<p>there are a ton of colleges in the chicago land area...........so he might take a look at those too.</p>
<p>since he has a 34 act and, if he's interested in continuing in sports at college, he could contact coaches at the top academic schools (competitive admissions) across the country.......division 3 level. there's a limited pool of student athletes with top act's and they may welcome hearing from him.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who has responded to my original post. We'd like to move our search beyond the midwest so send us your recommendations for schools anywhere in the U.S.</p>
<p>Baylor</a> University || Admissions || Merit Based Scholarships for 2009 - 2010</p>
<p>The</a> Johnson Scholarship :: Washington and Lee University</p>
<p>Knox Scholarships:
15k max academic
2k NMF
4k arts/misc
That stacks to 21k max IF you have NMF, otherwise 19k; the COA is 39k and tuition 31.5k. Knox is very generous, I agree, but unless those miscellaneous 4k scholarships stack among each other--which would be unusual--it seems impossible to get to full-tuition through solely merit.</p>
<p>Beloit does offer full-tuition for low-income, first-generation, or domestic minorities; otherwise the highest is Presidential at possibly $17k plus 4k misc if they stack.</p>
<p>St. Olaf's highest academic scholarship is 14k, stacked with 7.5k NMF makes 21.5k. Tuition is 34k.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo's highest merit scholarship is 20k, not sure about stacking but they only award FOUR 20k scholarships and they require special application. </p>
<p>Grinnell's highest scholarship is 15k, although I haven't checked that just now.</p>
<p>Agree with atomom about Hendrix, although its full-tuition scholarships are competitive.</p>
<p>If he's willing to look at a <em>really</em> small school (~500 students), Lyon in Arkansas might be a good a bet. They have several (4?) full rides (tuition, fees, room, and board) and several other full or near full tuition scholarships. By the looks of it, it's an <em>excellent</em> school, and hostly one to which I really, really regret not applying (though I'm happy where I am).</p>
<p>You can stack Knox's Extra scholarships (the 4k ones)</p>
<p>15k academic</p>
<p>+2-3 4k scholarships</p>
<p>=23-27k in scholarships</p>
<p>Beloit also has "extra" scholarships</p>
<p>If your applicant wants to come up north, The College of NJ will likely offer a full ride with those stats. Good luck!</p>
<p>Grinnell stacks too. We were offered $17,000.</p>
<p>Things may have changed, but as of last year, when we were searching:</p>
<p>Emory - 25 full rides but kid must be nominated by high school. Extremely competitive.</p>
<p>Oxford College at Emory U. - 40 scholarships ranging from 1/2 tuition to full ride. These carry on to years 3 and 4 at Emory U.</p>
<p>Furman - 4 full rides.</p>
<p>Davidson - 10 full rides but kid must be nominated by high school. These are super competitive.</p>
<p>Rhodes - 3 full rides.</p>
<p>U. of Richmond - 50 ranging from full tuition to full ride.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee - Full rides offered to 10% of freshman class.</p>
<p>TCNJ was once very generous with merit aid, but no longer; at least of this year, it caps OOS merit at 10k. I know this from directly emailing the admissions officer in charge of OOS admissions.</p>
<p>Case Western. Might not be full tuition, but close to it.</p>
<p>i second baylor. use their scholarship calculator.</p>
<p>check into case, tulane, and univ. of miami.</p>
<p>google search on the websites of the schools........the search is "merit aid". if you can't find anything check with the honors department chairs and the admissions reps for your area. a quick email to the honors department chairs and admissions reps can possibly reap a lot of information about merit aid. provide gpa, act score, class rank, psat score.</p>
<p>i know these aren't private but you might also want to check texas a & m, oklahoma, oklahoma state, texas tech, university of central florida.</p>
<p>some of these large publics may have honors colleges within their schools and they are worth checking into further.</p>
<p>also take a look at usc.</p>