<p>Sorry sorry, I guess my other post didn’t clarify anything… What I meant to say is I’d like to keep the tuition around 10k, making the total yearly cost around 25k. </p>
<p>I realize that half tuition (18k) would exceed this, which is why I wondered about the full tuition scholarship at loyola.</p>
<p>Thanks again everyone!! This really helps</p>
<p>If you are in the top 3% of your class you could compete for Ohio State’s Eminence scholarship, which is a full ride.</p>
<p>Well, with tuition around $19K a semester, half tuition is still not even close to matching a $10K/year tuition balance for you! </p>
<p>@cestlaviee DD1 attends Lawrence in WI for premed and I would highly recommend it. Generous financial aid. Nice trimester schedule where the students are off from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. Other schools that she looked at with generous financial aid include Carthage in WI(several full ride and full tuition scholarships), St. Olaf in MN, Concordia College (Morehead MN) with 3 full-tuitions), St. Ambrose U. (Quad Cities) (several full-tuition) Concordia U. in WI affordable and nice cadaver lab. Carroll U in WI–new Science building opens in 2015 with cadaver lab.</p>
<p>“If you are in the top 3% of your class you could compete for Ohio State’s Eminence scholarship, which is a full ride.”
<p>Oh right, has anyone mentioned Macalester yet? They do give out big merit awards and you definitely are competitive for them.</p>
<p>Also, they have an internship program that allows students to shadow doctors, which should help out the pre-meds.</p>
<p>If you are interested in Pitt, get an app in early, like October. Send recommendations and an essay, even though they are not required. My D with the same stats as you got a full tuition offer there (HS class of 2013). Oberlin was mentioned earlier. My D was offered 16 or 18 thousand merit there, which would not be enough to get the tuition down to $10,000!</p>
<p>I know Missouri wasn’t mentioned by you but Washington U in St Louis isn’t that far from the Chicago area. Your subjects of interest and it’s seemingly large medical influence would suit your interests. They do give merit awards. You already must realize that Wisconsin does not.</p>
<p>mamabear: Is your D at Pitt? does she like it or where did she end up?</p>
<p>S got good merit aid at Butler University, near Indy. I’ve also heard Denison gives good merit aid. </p>
<p>Another Miami Ohio supporter. Show interest AND get application in early. Indiana does NOT seem to give much merit money to OOS students. My son was offered over 100K total from Miami Ohio, and less than 50K total from IU. He was offered honors at IU, and from what I recall, 11K a year was highest they “automatically” offered out of state. There are special scholarships you can be nominated to apply for. For my 2012 son, Case offered lots of merit money, but I’ve heard they have cut back some. </p>
<p>In LACs - Denison, Wooster and DePauw for sure.</p>
<p>Kenyon, Denison, Wooster, Grinnell</p>
<p>PSAT good enough for National Merit?</p>
<p>If so, UK will give a full-ride (and they have other scholarships as well) and UNL will give full-tuition+.</p>
<p>Also, UMinny should be close to full-tuition with various scholarships (they give varying amounts for NMF, and top 5-10% of your class could get you the Gold National scholarship, which means in-state tuition).</p>
<p>BTW, UMich evidently has 30 big scholarships.
MSU has 35: <a href=“http://admissions.msu.edu/finances/scholarships_merit.asp”>http://admissions.msu.edu/finances/scholarships_merit.asp</a>
UIUC has a few as well.
PU has some.
OSU has some.</p>
<p>IU has Wells Scholars, which you need to be nominated for by your high school.</p>
<p>You’d want to move on these fast, as the deadlines are generally early (the Wells nomination has to be in by the end of this month, for instance).</p>
<p>Oh, and SLU also has some big scholarships.</p>
<p>I have said this several times and here I go again. D. has applied to:
MSU has 35: - offer was to lower tuition to In-state
OSU - Merit offer so tiny, negligible.</p>
<p>UMich evidently has 30 big scholarships - D. did not apply becasue her Merit offer would be zero, we knew that.</p>
<p>Grinnel was pusuing her (I believe because of her sport), but they did not have any Merit offer on the table at all.</p>
<p>D. was #1 in her private and well known in OH and MI HS (it had students traveling from MI on a daily basis) with tons of various ECs (enough to get accepted to very competitive bs/md programs - 3 of them).<br>
Of course , anybody can try, but is it worthwhile, if Merit award is a goal? I am not sure at all, based on our experiences. When D. was applying we have collected lots of info by word of mouth from kids who have applied previously and who had similar stats. Her application process went as predicted, it was no surprizes, very consistant with our research. </p>
<p>Every applicant is different, and the process is idiosyncratic, but yes, I would say that if you need merit to attend and want to do a cost-benefit analysis on time spent, MSU and SLU (and Macalester) along with the NMF schools (of the schools I mentioned) may be most worthwhile to try (as well as Denison, MiamiU, Case, Depauw, Pitt, Lawrence, Beloit).</p>
<p>UMich has around 15 near full ride merit scholarships (total for in state and oos) and at least dozens getting $8k-$10k/yr for in state or $20k/yr for OOS. But with a $55k CoA for OOS, it is still quite expensive after a $20k scholarships. It is not even enough to bring it down to in state level. Due to the number of admitted students (>15,000), it is only a small fraction of 1% admitted students would receive them and require amazing stat. OP may still try though.</p>
<p>If you want some data points for Midwest schools.
My D was a freshman last year,she was top 1% in GPA and SAT. Her friend about the same.
Her friend got 1 of the 3 full rides at Mich State, also was offered ~10K at Purdue.
My D was offered In-state tuition for UMinn, nothing for UMich, and 25K at Purdue.</p>
<p>Look at Valparaiso in Indiana. Good merit scholarships.</p>