<p>How hard is it to get a scholarship once in oxy?</p>
<p>On their website, they describe all the scholarships they give out. I would look there.</p>
<p>I was curious about this as well. My daughter has applied to and been accepted to three midwestern liberal arts colleges–more similar than different to Occidental in many ways (curriculum, price, size, etc), but not in a major metropolitan area like Occidental. In looking at the the US News data, Occidental appears to get significantly more applications than those other midwestern schools. Each of the three schools my daugher got into gave her nearliy identical amounts of merit based aid. I have a suspicion that merit based aid may be less generous at Occidental just becaue of supply/demand—more kids competing for the same number of spots. On the other hand, who knows, maybe Occidental has an endowment that is 5x as big as the midwestern schools. Guess she will find out in a few weeks.</p>