<p>@ucbalumnus Well, I know that I don’t need huge merit scholarships. I just need enough money to where my parents aren’t giving every last dollar they’ve ever made to my undergrad education. I also have two siblings to think about. Thankfully, Virginia has great state schools and my stats are 50th percentile range for UVA and the instate tuition is affordable. Their fin-aid for instate kids is pretty good and if I got accepted I’d be happy to end up there or William and Mary which is also affordable for me. </p>
<p>BTW can you name any large merit scholarship schools that in the Northeast or maybe the Pacific Northwest? It seemed like all the schools in the thread were either in the South or Midwest-the two places that I know I don’t want to be for college. One school was in Hawaii, but I don’t think the school’s culture would fit me well at all. </p>