<p>I am starting this thread for a new poster, Tanmom. Her D is looking for a midwestern college that offers merit aid. Major is undecided, but health sciences is a possibility. Here are her D's stats:</p>
<p>GPA 3.98/4.0
ACT:32 (36M,35R)
Rank: 7/250
Major: undecided (Health sciences)
EC's: Not much. lots of volunteering </p>
<p>I will start:</p>
<p>Case (a slight higher ACT would be good for merit purposes).
Allegheny College
Centre College
Lawrence University
Kalamazoo College </p>
<p>I would also recommend that she apply to the honors program of her state's flagship university.</p>
<p>our son got very good merit offers from both Case and Allegheny with a similar hs record and also got a good merit scholarship offer from Wooster. He was also accepted by Oberlin but with very little merit aid offered. You may also suggest Ohio U's honors tutorial college which xiggi's(?) son attends. It sounds like a fantastic program. Otherwise your list looks very good.</p>
<p>St. Louis University. They offer 30 Presidential scholarships. That is full tuition. 200 are invited for interviews for the 30 scholarships. If the student is not offered one of the 30, I think that they are offered some money.</p>
<p>Thanks for adding St. Louis University, silverlady - I was not familiar with them. They have a Dec. 1 date for preferred consideration on the scholarships - and others may also have this! Remember to check the application and preferential scholarship deadlines.</p>
<p>Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois gives out excellent merit aid. Her stats are MUCH better than mine (if even comparable) and I got $15,000 ( or was it $12,500?).</p>
<p>A note on Kenyon - their largest merit scholarship program has an early filing date. They don't give out very many scholarships (Kenyon is not known as really generous with merit money) so be sure to apply early if you want to.</p>
<p>My son got a very nice merit award from Oberlin. Also look at the Minnesota colleges - Carelton and McAlaster give merit awards, but more merit money will likely be offered from St. Olaf.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody (especially ohio_mom for starting this thread for me). </p>
<p>Will share theses with D.<br>
She has been thinking of Umich,WashU,Univ of Chicago,UNotreDame,Northwestern. I know a few of these do not offer need-blind aid. With or without aid does she have any chance of admission at any of these Univ.?</p>
<p>"She has been thinking of Umich,WashU,Univ of Chicago,UNotreDame,Northwestern. I know a few of these do not offer need-blind aid. With or without aid does she have any chance of admission at any of these Univ?"</p>
<p>Yes; these would be matches (50/50 ish) or reasonable reaches. Her essay at Chicago will be critical. She needs to visit WUSTL - they are a bit unpredictable. She also needs to visit Chicago as they wonderful for some (my son) but not for everyone. Chicago offers limited merit aid - she might be offered the 9500 scholarship - but don't be the farm on it. I am not familiar with the aid at WUSTL or ND. Please take a good hard look at the finances before you visit these schools - I think that being admitted and not being able to attend is harder to take than a clean reject from the school.</p>
<p>Michigan, where she should have a very good shot, is rolling admissions - and there is a VERY great benefits to applying early in terms of being admitted.</p>
<p>Lawrence is probably a safety for your daughter in terms of stats, so she will most likely get merit aid. But remember, the merit aid is helpful, but it's also the need-based that helps. I got merit aid from Knox, $10,000 a year, but then the need based aid sucked. </p>
<p>Lawrence gave me much better need based and so that's where I'm heading this fall. You're welcome to PM me, Ohio Mom if you or your D have any questions about it.</p>