<p>We filed no financial aid forms and my son got merit awards from 5 colleges. I called each admissions office to make sure we didn’t need to file any forms.</p>
<p>He chose a school that offered half tuition all 4 years with no conditions attached–and we just got a phone-a-thon request to give most of it back as a donation to the college. It wasn’t framed that way and the caller probably knew nothing about the merit scholarship, but it was rather amusing anyway.</p>