Scholarships based on test scores?

Paying for College
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<p>Are there any scholarships based mostly on testscores/gpa beside national merit?</p>

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<p>Most merit money is heavily based on test scores.</p>

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<p>But in most cases GPA plays a prominent role.</p>

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<p>This is how I describe the qualifications for merit money…</p>

<p>There is a VERY LARGE pool of students with high GPAs (many, many with GPAs of 3.5+). I emphasize “very large” because some people mistakenly think that their honor roll student is going to get a big scholarship without realizing that many, many students are “honor roll students” these days.</p>

<p>There is a smaller pool of students with high SAT/ACT scores.</p>

<p>There is very small pool of students who have both high GPAs and high test scores. Big merit money tends to go to these students.</p>

<p>So, when a school (that gives merit money) has applications from a large group of students with high GPAs, then the test scores tend to separate “the men from the boys” and merit money goes to those high-scoring students.</p>