<p>It would appear from my investigations that the merit scholarships offered are not actually of the full ride variety, just full tuition (leaving you with about 15 grand left, no?). Am I totally off here, because it always seemed to me that us CCers treated as though they were one of those comprehensive deals. Not that I should be thinking about this, I'll be lucky to get in in the first place.</p>
<p>well i know that uchicago does offer full TUITION, as for full-ride, i'm not so sure...</p>
<p>They offer about 35 full tuition merit scholarships, and about another 100 $9500 or so merit scholarships a year. This is well below full-ride, which would include room & board, etc. Students do get full-rides based on need. These are typically a mix of grants, some loans, and work-study.</p>
<p>idad, do you know any top colleges that give full-ride based on merit?</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that UChicago offers one (1) full-ride scholarship. It is a named scholarship, but I can't remember the name offhand. Three or four years ago, a mother posted on the old Princeton Review board that her son had received it. I believe he was from Appalachia and had overcome major obstacles to get an education, and that played a part in it.</p>
<p>I really would like to find a link to that</p>
<p>I second that motion.</p>
<p>There are schools that offer merit full-rides, but I cannot think of them off the top of my head. You may want to post that question on the parents and/or financial aid forum, someone there will know. </p>
<p>There are several graduate level fellowships that pay everything and provide a stipend (I had one), but I have only heard of tuition scholarships for undergrads. This doesn't mean some do not exist, I simply haven't heard of them.</p>
<p>well unc offers the morehead and nc state offers park.. both of those are full and give you some money too!</p>
<p>"offers the morehead" do they?</p>
<p>I know of a similar "scholarship" you can find on street corners.</p>
<p>It's called the Dolin Scholarship. Full tuition, room & board, fees, and stipend. I got it this year, but turned it down in favor of Harvard.</p>
<p>oooo mr big man!! na im jk congrats and yes maybe its moorehead but its full everything you would ever want including... well... everything</p>
<p>full rides:</p>
<p>morehead at UNC</p>
<p>UVA has a comparable program whose name escapes me.</p>
<p>MSU give about 30 ADS full rides each year.</p>
<p>University of Tulsa offers 100% free rides to national merit finalists...of course, if ur looking at u of c, you might not want tulsa (av act: 27)</p>
<p>The UVA one is called the Jefferson. UNC also has the Robertson. But note that these are generally inferior schools in most respects to U of C or Ivy calibers.</p>
<p>Esquared you are crazy :)</p>
<p>I usually don't comment on this, but I think it may be worth mentioning. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear read about schools being considered inferior to others. Schools have different missions and serve different populations. I think it would be more appropriate to say these schools generally have different goals than...</p>
<p>I think you may want to look at the thread in the Parents' Forum that focuses on the best schools for merit aid. It's a "stickie" near the top of the forum.</p>
<p>I won a full-ride plus a travel/research grant to the University of Pittsburgh. (It's called the Chancellor's Scholarship.) I realize that Pitt doesn't have quite the atmosphere of UChicago, etc. but the University is improving every year and the Honors College is quite intellectual. </p>
<p>Also, there is a lot of support if you wish to apply for Goldwater/Truman/Udall/etc. and success rates are comparable to "higher level" institutions (though I agree with idad...I dislike such terminology). Many times prejudice blinds us to the accomplishments of "lesser" universities.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, note this: </p>
<p>"*n both 2004 and 2005, of all universities, only Yale received as many combined scholarships as Pitt in all three competition categories [Goldwater, Truman, Udall] during that two year period--a total of 10 scholarships for each school." [Pitt Chronicle]</p>
<p>Also: Pitt was one of only three public universities to have a Rhodes Scholar chosen for 2006.</p>
<p>And: a Pitt student was selected as a Marshall Scholar in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. </p>
<p>And despite all this, I am going to UChicago next year. I'm just too in love with the place. :-)</p>
<p>The thing about Pitt having close to as many scholarship winners as Yale is totally bogus. Think about how many more kids are going to Pitt as opposed to Yale, which is quite small. An accurate statistic would use scholarships per student or something.</p>
<p>Oh and idad. Yeah I know someone would say that. But I felt the term appropriate b/c in general everyone knows that "Schools have different missions and serve different populations." If we say only that schools have different goals, we've gone into a politically correct world where there is no real difference in academic quality between two schools, and that is just not true. Maybe I, and others, and the USNews overdue it, but certainly there needs to be something more said besides "Southern Illinois and Harvard have different goals."</p>