Master List of Full or "near Full" tuition Merit

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<p>I have pieced together from other threads this list of "full" or "near full" merit scholarships. Please correct or add as needed. Thanks</p>

<p>full tuition at University of Arizona,</p>

<p>full tuition at Arizona StateBaylor offered President's Baylor Scholarship of $40,000 over 4 years. If she's a NM finalist and makes them her 1st choice, it will be upgraded Regent's Baylor Scholarship (basically full tuition.)</p>

<p>Southern Methodist offered only D the Dean's Scholar (1/2 tuition - 4 years) and she is a finalist for President's Scholar (awards include full tuition and transportation costs and tuition for 1 of their international programs).</p>

<p>Univeristy of Pittsburgh
$20,784 (full OOS tuition)</p>

<p>Honors: S chose free ride to Univ. of Florida honors program over Vanderbilt and UNC-Chapel Hill honors, both with scholarships in the 15-20K range, </p>

<p>My son chose Tulane over Wash. U (near full tutition). </p>

<p>D2 chose Wash.U (full-tuition Moog scholarship, plus stipend</p>

<p>. In my nephew's case he went to TCNJ on a full ride although he was accepted at Colgate, Tufts, Haverford. My niece turned down Tufts and a lot of merit aid from BU, Syracuse, GWU and Dickinson to accept a $25K merit award at American U. My son was offerred free ride (room/board/tuition/books) at Rutgers or free out-of-state tuition at Pitt or $22K from RPI Friends who accepted full tuition/free rides at Pitt, Stevens, NC State range anywhere from hating their school to tolerating it.He accepted admission to RPI where he is receiving $25k/yr, resulting in about $4500 cost to him for tuition and academic fees and about $9000 cost to us for room, board and medical fee. a full ride to the university of maryland she is attending her first-choice school (UChicago) on a full-tuition merit scholarship. Emory, where she also received a full-tuition scholarshipshe received full tuition at UNC-CH and Tulane. She received tuition and room at Fordham and Loyola New Orleans. Boston College: full merit scholarships, it's called the presidential scholarship or something. But you have to apply EA to qualify for it. full scholarship at UMichUNC you get paid tuition, room and board, meals, three summers of travel and community service, a $3,000 stipend for laptops, and dual access to Duke (meaning up you take up to half your classes there versus the regular policy of just one course at the sister campus). At Duke you get full tuition. The value at UNC is estimated around $125,000 (out of state) and at Duke around $140,000. Duke also offers other merit scholarships like the Angier B. Duke (attracts science/engineering type people who are Siemens and Intel Westinghouse finalists), Benjamin N. Duke (North Carolina students only I believe),Emory University awards I think around 50 2/3 tuitions, 50 full tuitions, and 25 full rides as part of their Emory Scholars program. </p>

<p>Vanderbilt offers a very large number of half tuitions, about 40-50 3/4 tuitions, and 15 full tuitions for their arts and sciences school. I believe they give a lot more for music and engineering too. </p>

<p>Rice offers up to full tuition for a few engineering majors while other majors can max out at 18k a year. </p>

<p>Rochester offers 10 full tuition scholarships a year for all majors.</p>

<p>Case Western Reserve offers many full tuitions for students with high stats. </p>

<p>Wake Forest offers in the neighborhood of ten full rides and a few other full tuitions.University's Wells Scholar program provides a full ride plus a lot of nice extras but only one student per high school can be nominated. I think it invovles a lot of community service kinda stuff too. </p>

<p>University of Georgia's Foundation Fellowship offers the full ride plus tons of travel and research stipends along with weekly seminars, mentoring, etc. About 25 students each year are awarded this after extensive interviews and a large supplemental application. My personal favorite. </p>

<p>William and Mary offers I think 5 or 6 full ride scholarships for their college scholars program which sounds immensely difficult to get into. These are the only merit scholarships offered. </p>

<p>Boston Univeristy's Trustee Scholar program has around 20 full rides with a special house for trustee scholars that features close interaction with professors.</p>

<p>Colleges like Duke are heavily investing in their student body (i.e. poaching top students via Robertsons, A.B., etc.) because they are banking on the fact that these students will go on to accomplish great things in the next twenty to fifty years that will both a) greatly increase the university's endowment (because relatively speaking their endowments aren't "big")</p>

<p>She received full tuition or more from Chicago, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill (out of state), Tulane, Fordham, Loyola New Orleans.</p>

<p>If you are #1 or #2 in your class and have a fantastic application, Fordham has a Presidential Scholarship offering full-tuition and room for all four years and I think you gain admission to their small honor's program, </p>

<p>My daughter received a full tuition scholarship from American U. She didn't have to apply, it just came in her acceptance. </p>

<p>GWU admitted me to their Honors program and gave me $80,000 (the highest merit award available. It was something called Presidential). Anyways, it brought down the cost to $120,000 over four years ($30,000 per year). I think it had something to do with the fact that I wrote on the lines that I was applying to Harvard, Yale, etc</p>

<p>Miami University (OH) has the Harrison Scholarship, which is given to about 40 students per year. Last year, all 36 (I think that's how many were selected last year, give or take a few) received full tuition, room and board, but normally I believe some receive full tuition and others get tuition and room and board. There is also the University Honors Program (Harrisons are automatically admitted), which has an annual scholarship. I believe around 150 students per year are admitted to that, and still others are Oxford Scholars and receive a smaller annual scholarship. I believe Miami gives more merit money other than these scholarships as well.</p>

<p>DePauw (IN) offers several full tuition and possibly room and board scholarships as well. I don't know very much about this, other than the fact that two of my classmates applied and received the scholarship.</p>

<p>Duke keeps getting mentioned but the trinity scholarship, one of the best scholarships in the nation, hasn't been mentioned. Although it is only given to 2-4 students per year, the beenefits are amazing. It provides full everything, opporunity money for the summer, and specific opportunities all year long. I believe that it is only available to students from NC. for me</p>

<p>TU give ridiculous amounts of money to anyone who has done well.</p>

<p>Washington & Lee has been basically buying really good students to come, so they are definitely not bottom tier and have first-rate merit aid.</p>

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<p>ASU and Baylor are separate programs, but they kind of got scrunched together up there.</p>

<p>Austin College in Sherman, TX gives up to 10 full tuition merit scholarships and many smaller ones. It is one of the Colleges that Change Lives. Last year a girl from my school turned down Harvard for AC.</p>

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<p>My D got a letter today I wanted to pass on from Wayne State University in Detroit. It states:</p>

<p>If you are named a National Achievement, Hispanic, or Merit finalist and list Wayne State University as your first choice, you will qualify for our most prestigious award, the University Scholarship. This award includes:</p>

<p>Immediate acceptance in the University Honors Program
Tuition and fees for 4 years (valued at $25,000)
Room and board for 4 years (valued at $28,000)
$1,500 annually for books
$2,500 study abroad/travel award
A laptop computer</p>

<p>Pretty generous!</p>

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<p>Re: Raindrop's comment, the vast majority of the students who are accepted but do not attend Harvard go elsewhere for merit scholoarship reasons. We tend to think of decisions in a Harvard vs Yale vs Standford sort of context - but this just isn't the case. It is all about $$$$.</p>

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<p>Those who go to certain $$ schools instead of, say, Harvard, for the money get what they deserve.</p>

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<p>Those who go to certain $$ schools instead of, say, Harvard, for the money get what they deserve.</p>

<p>Yeah---in many cases, a darn good education, and graduation, debt free!</p>

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<p>If they are getting what they want for a price they are willing to pay, more power to them.</p>

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<p>jlauer,</p>

<p>Just trying to make a contribution to your list since you are comprising scholarship info. </p>

<p>Ursinus Scholarships</p>

<p>Steinbright Scholarships
Six $25,000 scholarships are awarded each year, one each to the strongest applicant attending high school in the following surrounding counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia counties. Steinbright Scholars have demonstrated superior academic and leadership achievements throughout their high school careers. </p>

<p>Tower Scholarships
African-American and Latino applicants planning graduate academic work or professional school after Ursinus may be considered for the Tower Scholarship. The Tower Scholarship is $25,000, renewable for four years, and awarded to students who have demonstrated superior academic and leadership achievements throughout their high school careers. </p>

<p>Zacharias National Scholarships
Each year, Ursinus chooses up to six candidates as most outstanding from the total pool of national applicants. The Zacharias National Scholarship is $25,000 per year, renewable for four years. These students have demonstrated superior high school academic achievement, intellectual gifts and the potential for becoming leaders in their chosen fields. Seriousness of purpose, a record of independence and credentials such as National Merit Finalist, Governor's School attendee and other national and state recognitions weigh heavily in the selection process. Scholars are eligible to apply for a $2,500 summer research grant to pursue their interests while at Ursinus.</p>

<p>Early Assurance to Medical School
Ursinus College and the Drexel University School of Medicine offer an "Early Assurance Program to Medical School" for exceptionally strong applicants interested in careers in medicine. Ursinus Scholarships up to $15,000 accompany this program. To be eligible for the “Early Assurance to Medical School Program,” you must indicate your interest to Ursinus Admissions and apply to the college by December 1. </p>

<p>The J.D. Salinger Award
The J.D. Salinger Award is a $25,000-per-year scholarship for creative writers of outstanding originality and potential, named for the renowned author, who attended Ursinus College. Candidates for this award must be nominated by a teacher or guidance counselor from their high school and present a portfolio of 10 to 15 pages of creative work in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or some combination of genres.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship covers four years of full scholarship (and throws in a free round trip ticket). It is an uncommonly generous scholarship and is coveted by the best students in Asia. The Freeman scholarship is awarded for up to twenty-two exceptionally able Asian students annually from these countries and regions: the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam (2 per country).</p>

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<p>Thanks to all who have contributed more sources. Please keep posting...</p>

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<p>Quote from a private message:<br>
<<<<< Just took a look at [the] listing of merit scholarships. [The] info about UNC (your quote below) is actually the Robertson Scholarship. You mention the Robertson later on with Duke, but you might want to separate this out for UNC as well, since it is the Robertson that is being described there.</p>

<p>The Robertson Scholarship is a full freight scholarship (as you describe below) that is made at both UNC-CH and at Duke (thought it is not full freight at Duke). About 15 are awarded at Duke, and 15 awarded at UNC. Duke students take courses at UNC, and UNC students take courses at Duke; all Robertsons spend a full semester of their sophomore year at the sister school.</p>

<p>The Morehead Scholarship is also made at UNC-CH, but one half of those students must come from NC; the other half are from specific nominating schools. Students <em>can</em> be nominated from admissions for the Morehead, but that is rare. About 40-50 Moreheads are made each year.</p>

<p>There are other scholarships at UNC as well (Carolina Scholars; Davie Scholarship; Pogue Scholarship). What they cover varies, depending on whether in-state or out-of-state.</p>

<p>Hope that helps,</p>

<p>[The Posting]:</p>

<p>"UNC you get paid tuition, room and board, meals, three summers of travel and community service, a $3,000 stipend for laptops, and dual access to Duke (meaning up you take up to half your classes there versus the regular policy of just one course at the sister campus). At Duke you get full tuition. The value at UNC is estimated around $125,000 (out of state) and at Duke around $140,000."
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<li><p>I have pieced together from other threads this list of "full" or "near full" merit scholarships. Please correct or add as needed. Thanks.</p></li>
<li><p>Full tuition at University of Arizona,</p></li>
<li><p>Full tuition at Arizona State</p></li>
<li><p>Baylor offered President's Baylor Scholarship of $40,000 over 4 years. If she's a NM finalist and makes them her 1st choice, it will be upgraded Regent's Baylor Scholarship (basically full tuition.)</p></li>
<li><p>Southern Methodist offered only D the Dean's Scholar (1/2 tuition - 4 years) and she is a finalist for President's Scholar (awards include full tuition and transportation costs and tuition for 1 of their international programs).</p></li>
<li><p>University of Pittsburgh
$20,784 (full OOS tuition)</p></li>
<li><p>Honors: S chose free ride to Univ. of Florida honors program over Vanderbilt and UNC-Chapel Hill honors, both with scholarships in the 15-20K range, </p></li>
<li><p>My son chose Tulane over Wash. U (near full tutition). </p></li>
<li><p>D2 chose Wash.U (full-tuition Moog scholarship, plus stipend</p></li>
<li><p>In my nephew's case he went to TCNJ on a full ride although he was accepted at Colgate, Tufts, Haverford. My niece turned down Tufts and a lot of merit aid from BU, Syracuse, GWU and Dickinson to accept a $25K merit award at American U. My son was offerred free ride (room/board/tuition/books) at Rutgers or free out-of-state tuition at Pitt or $22K from RPI Friends who accepted full tuition/free rides at Pitt, Stevens, NC State range anywhere from hating their school to tolerating it.He accepted admission to RPI where he is receiving $25k/yr, resulting in about $4500 cost to him for tuition and academic fees and about $9000 cost to us for room, board and medical fee. a full ride to the university of maryland she is attending her first-choice school (UChicago) on a full-tuition merit scholarship. Emory, where she also received a full-tuition scholarshipshe received full tuition at UNC-CH and Tulane. She received tuition and room at Fordham and Loyola New Orleans. Boston College: full merit scholarships, it's called the presidential scholarship or something. But you have to apply EA to qualify for it. full scholarship at UMichUNC you get paid tuition, room and board, meals, three summers of travel and community service, a $3,000 stipend for laptops, and dual access to Duke (meaning up you take up to half your classes there versus the regular policy of just one course at the sister campus). At Duke you get full tuition. The value at UNC is estimated around $125,000 (out of state) and at Duke around $140,000. Duke also offers other merit scholarships like the Angier B. Duke (attracts science/engineering type people who are Siemens and Intel Westinghouse finalists), Benjamin N. Duke (North Carolina students only I believe),Emory University awards I think around 50 2/3 tuitions, 50 full tuitions, and 25 full rides as part of their Emory Scholars program. </p></li>
<li><p>Vanderbilt offers a very large number of half tuitions, about 40-50 3/4 tuitions, and 15 full tuitions for their arts and sciences school. I believe they give a lot more for music and engineering too. </p></li>
<li><p>Rice offers up to full tuition for a few engineering majors while other majors can max out at 18k a year. </p></li>
<li><p>Rochester offers 10 full tuition scholarships a year for all majors.</p></li>
<li><p>Case Western Reserve offers many full tuitions for students with high stats. </p></li>
<li><p>Wake Forest offers in the neighborhood of ten full rides and a few other full tuitions.University's Wells Scholar program provides a full ride plus a lot of nice extras but only one student per high school can be nominated. I think it invovles a lot of community service kinda stuff too. </p></li>
<li><p>University of Georgia's Foundation Fellowship offers the full ride plus tons of travel and research stipends along with weekly seminars, mentoring, etc. About 25 students each year are awarded this after extensive interviews and a large supplemental application. My personal favorite. </p></li>
<li><p>William and Mary offers I think 5 or 6 full ride scholarships for their college scholars program which sounds immensely difficult to get into. These are the only merit scholarships offered. </p></li>
<li><p>Boston Univeristy's Trustee Scholar program has around 20 full rides with a special house for trustee scholars that features close interaction with professors.</p></li>
<li><p>Colleges like Duke are heavily investing in their student body (i.e. poaching top students via Robertsons, A.B., etc.) because they are banking on the fact that these students will go on to accomplish great things in the next twenty to fifty years that will both a) greatly increase the university's endowment (because relatively speaking their endowments aren't "big")</p></li>
<li><p>She received full tuition or more from Chicago, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill (out of state), Tulane, Fordham, Loyola New Orleans.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>If you are #1 or #2 in your class and have a fantastic application, Fordham has a Presidential Scholarship offering full-tuition and room for all four years and I think you gain admission to their small honor's program, </p>

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<li><p>My daughter received a full tuition scholarship from American U. She didn't have to apply, it just came in her acceptance. </p></li>
<li><p>GWU admitted me to their Honors program and gave me $80,000 (the highest merit award available. It was something called Presidential). Anyways, it brought down the cost to $120,000 over four years ($30,000 per year). I think it had something to do with the fact that I wrote on the lines that I was applying to Harvard, Yale, etc</p></li>
<li><p>Miami University (OH) has the Harrison Scholarship, which is given to about 40 students per year. Last year, all 36 (I think that's how many were selected last year, give or take a few) received full tuition, room and board, but normally I believe some receive full tuition and others get tuition and room and board. There is also the University Honors Program (Harrisons are automatically admitted), which has an annual scholarship. I believe around 150 students per year are admitted to that, and still others are Oxford Scholars and receive a smaller annual scholarship. I believe Miami gives more merit money other than these scholarships as well.</p></li>
<li><p>DePauw (IN) offers several full tuition and possibly room and board scholarships as well. I don't know very much about this, other than the fact that two of my classmates applied and received the scholarship.</p></li>
<li><p>Duke keeps getting mentioned but the trinity scholarship, one of the best scholarships in the nation, hasn't been mentioned. Although it is only given to 2-4 students per year, the beenefits are amazing. It provides full everything, opporunity money for the summer, and specific opportunities all year long. I believe that it is only available to students from NC. for me</p></li>
<li><p>TU give ridiculous amounts of money to anyone who has done well.</p></li>
<li><p>Washington & Lee has been basically buying really good students to come, so they are definitely not bottom tier and have first-rate merit aid.</p></li>
<li><p>Austin College in Sherman, TX gives up to 10 full tuition merit scholarships and many smaller ones. It is one of the Colleges that Change Lives. Last year a girl from my school turned down Harvard for AC.My D got a letter today I wanted to pass on from Wayne State University in Detroit. It states:</p></li>
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<li>If you are named a National Achievement, Hispanic, or Merit finalist and list Wayne State University as your first choice, you will qualify for our most prestigious award, the University Scholarship. This award includes:</li>
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<p>Immediate acceptance in the University Honors Program
Tuition and fees for 4 years (valued at $25,000)
Room and board for 4 years (valued at $28,000)
$1,500 annually for books
$2,500 study abroad/travel award
A laptop computer</p>

<p>Pretty generous!</p>

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<li>Ursinus Scholarships</li>
</ol>

<p>Steinbright Scholarships
Six $25,000 scholarships are awarded each year, one each to the strongest applicant attending high school in the following surrounding counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia counties. Steinbright Scholars have demonstrated superior academic and leadership achievements throughout their high school careers. </p>

<p>Tower Scholarships
African-American and Latino applicants planning graduate academic work or professional school after Ursinus may be considered for the Tower Scholarship. The Tower Scholarship is $25,000, renewable for four years, and awarded to students who have demonstrated superior academic and leadership achievements throughout their high school careers. </p>

<p>Zacharias National Scholarships
Each year, Ursinus chooses up to six candidates as most outstanding from the total pool of national applicants. The Zacharias National Scholarship is $25,000 per year, renewable for four years. These students have demonstrated superior high school academic achievement, intellectual gifts and the potential for becoming leaders in their chosen fields. Seriousness of purpose, a record of independence and credentials such as National Merit Finalist, Governor's School attendee and other national and state recognitions weigh heavily in the selection process. Scholars are eligible to apply for a $2,500 summer research grant to pursue their interests while at Ursinus.</p>

<p>Early Assurance to Medical School
Ursinus College and the Drexel University School of Medicine offer an "Early Assurance Program to Medical School" for exceptionally strong applicants interested in careers in medicine. Ursinus Scholarships up to $15,000 accompany this program. To be eligible for the “Early Assurance to Medical School Program,” you must indicate your interest to Ursinus Admissions and apply to the college by December 1. </p>

<p>The J.D. Salinger Award
The J.D. Salinger Award is a $25,000-per-year scholarship for creative writers of outstanding originality and potential, named for the renowned author, who attended Ursinus College. Candidates for this award must be nominated by a teacher or guidance counselor from their high school and present a portfolio of 10 to 15 pages of creative work in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or some combination of genres.Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship covers four years of full scholarship (and throws in a free round trip ticket). It is an uncommonly generous scholarship and is coveted by the best students in Asia. The Freeman scholarship is awarded for up to twenty-two exceptionally able Asian students annually from these countries and regions: the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam (2 per country).</p>

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<p>Add the Chancellor's Scholarship to #6 - Pitt chooses a number of Honors Scholars (the ones who get full tuition) to receive a bigger scholarship that includes room and board, bigger books stipend, and a $2000 research/study abroad grant.</p>

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<p>Rhodes College gives Bellingrath Scholarships to three students each year, valued at $36,000 each for four years. S1 got one and I still have that sinking feeling when I fill out the financial aid forms for the school he chose instead.</p>

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<p>(from another thread)
The U of Miami (private) has some good scholarships for applicants with very high SAT's, but not stratospheric.</p>

<p>Rutgers will basically give instate tuition to applicants with a 1250 and top 10% (Which for out of staters is like receiving a big merit scholarship).</p>

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<p>Boston College- Presidential Scholars</p>

<p>BC invites 15 students to become Presidential Scholars. Once admitted to BC as Presidential Scholars, students remain in the program for their 4 years at BC provided they maintain a 3.5 GPA and remain model citizens of the BC community throughout that time. Presently, there are 61 Scholars in the program.</p>

<p>There is no minimum GPA or SAT score requirement. However, we are looking for students with outstanding academic records, who hold leadership roles in their school and who are committed to and have a demonstrated interest in community service. Typically, the students selected are in the top 1-2 percent of the national pool of freshman applicants.</p>

<p>Presidential Scholars receive a merit scholarship that covers full tuition at BC, regardless of financial need. If the merit award does not meet their financial aid requirements, Scholars receive additional grant and aid resources sufficient to meet full need. The cost of summer programs is fully covered by a separate award.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bc.edu/centers/psp/aboutpsp/faq/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bc.edu/centers/psp/aboutpsp/faq/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>those who have recently been awarded near or full merit scholarships, please post here so we can add to the list. Please correct anything (by the number) that needs updating. :)</p>

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<p>Holy Cross offers merit aid in various majors-including classics and music. Also HC offers several alumni based merit scholarships.</p>

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<p>University of New Mexico for entering freshman and transfer students: out of state</p>

<ol>
<li> <a href="http://www.unm.edu/%7Eschol/freshmen/amigo.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.unm.edu/~schol/freshmen/amigo.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
</ol>

<p>waive out of state tuition plus an additional $500 per year, in state tuition about $4000 per year plus room and board which is about $5000 combined depending on which room, meal plan (13 of them). Additional scholarships available.</p>

<ol>
<li> <a href="http://www.unm.edu/%7Eschol/freshmen/regents.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.unm.edu/~schol/freshmen/regents.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
</ol>

<p>full tuition and fees, room and board and books, NOT residency dependent</p>

<p>Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and meet the following requirements:</p>

<p>Valedictorian or; </p>

<p>ACT composite score of 31 or higher (or SAT equivalent 1360) or;</p>

<p>A cumulative sixth (6th) semester grade point average of 3.9 or higher and; </p>

<p>A statement of goals and philosophy
Two letters of recommendation</p>

<p>(Even though students may meet one of the minimum requirements listed, at the second level of review at least two of the items mentioned, as minimums will advance a candidate to the next level. Semi-finalists are required to attend scholarship interviews during the first week in February.)
The following will also be taken into consideration:</p>

<p>National Scholarship Recognition, i.e.: National Merit Finalist, National Hispanic Scholar, National Achievement Scholar
Enriched college preparatory course work and advanced placement courses
Extracurricular and leadership activities</p>

<p>Four (4) year renewable award </p>

<p>Kat</p>