merit scholarships

Paying for College
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<p>Grinnell College offers 1/3 of their students merit scholarships.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/merit_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/merit_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>In the following site, you can search for schools, and this gives you the number receiving and average amount received of non-need-based aid under the "financial aid" section.</p>

<p><a href="https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/collegefinder/%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/collegefinder/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Grinnell is <a href="https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/2666/Grinnell_College/Grinnell_College4.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/2666/Grinnell_College/Grinnell_College4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Wash U is <a href="https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/5424/Washington_University_in_St_Louis/Washington_University_in_St_Louis4.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/5424/Washington_University_in_St_Louis/Washington_University_in_St_Louis4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The Wash U numbers are kind of interesting: 18% of freshman without need receive merit scholarships, but 13% of all undergraduates receive merit scholarships. 12% of freshman with need receive merit scholarships, but 7% of undergraduates receive them. Nearly 1/2 of freshman offered scholarships lose them at some point, or perhaps Wash U increased the number of scholarships in the past few years. The average merit award for freshman are about 30% higher than the average for all undergraduates.</p>