TCU offers about 50 students Full Tuition scholarships.
Very infromative thread 
University of Alabama and University of Oklahoma.
UT Dallas
Personal experience: Trinity University in San Antonio and Kalamazoo College both offered generous merit aid.
One of the nice things about Trinity is their transparency. They publish their merit aid guidelines (academic record/test scores) on line so you can determine ahead of time how much merit aid you might qualify for. Also, they offer something on the order of 20 full-tuition scholarships for an incoming class of around 600 freshman.
Dickinson College! an excellent SLAC
Anyone âshoppedâ merit aid. Daughter recâd $20k/yr from school A and $0 from school B -a similarly ranked SLAC? Can we contact admissions at school B? Nothing to lose, right?
@mitch22 absolutely nothing to lose. Some schools will be receptive and others wonât. But either way it canât hurt.
@mitch22 my husband tried it today - called school A and asked if they would match the merit aid from school B. The difference was $7K so we werenât going from $0 to $20. One was $15K and the other $22. School A said no, suggested looking for outside scholarships but glad we at least tried. A friend who went to school A told us that he continued to ask for more money each year and usually got it, so we will continue to try since she is planning on attending school A. We will tell her to ask next year, assuming her grades are good.
We are so excited for our S to have made his choice official! University of Virginia Jefferson Scholar (full ride)! So thrilled for him to have the freedom to attend school without the financial worry as well as the freedom from prerequisite burden when choosing his courses! Good stuff here! Good luck to all!
Wow, thatâs awesome, @Warrenless. Prestige AND money - it doesnât get much better than that!
Thank you! So very excited for him!
Personal 2017 experience of more than 20 thousand merit at U.S. liberal arts type schools:
Centre, Trinity, Wooster, Hendrix, Beloit, Denison.
Note that high base cost of attendance(tuition, fees, room and board) at some schools can negate much or even all of the merit award . In other words, considering merit award in absence of base COA is meaningless.
Yeah, the amount of merit doesnât matter. Itâs like a car dealer giving you an extra 1000 on your trade in. Then you discover they charged you an extra 2k for waxing the thing.
bottomline
Hereâs my sonâs experience with scholarships (applying for fall 2017 admissions). Take it for what it is worth.
For context, he had a 36 ACT, 10 APs (eight 5s, two 4s on the AP exams), 4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.38 weighted GPA, National Merit Finalist and Scholar, sports, leadership, volunteering, NHS president, FBLA, etc. These are the schools he got into. He applied as a civil engineering major at all schools and is from Colorado.
Duke, Michigan, UVA and UCLA offered him no money (he applied for several scholarships at each school)
University of Texas at Austin offered him $6,000 per year for four years
University of Colorado at Boulder offered him $7,500 per year for four years, plus an additional $1,000 for his first year
Colorado School of Mines offered him $5,000 per year for four years, plus an additional $1,000 for his first year
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo offered him $1,000
He did also get the $2,500 National Merit Scholarship which works at any school.
all those schools[ with the exception of Duke] are PUBLIC colleges, which rely on taxpayers for FA funding.
The UC schools eliminated financial aid to all incoming OOS students this year, so throwing an application to UCLA in the expectation of getting merit aid, as an OOS resident, was a waste of time.
I think IF he had applied to some less selective private colleges, or to those listed on these websites-
http://nmfscholarships.yolasite.com/
or
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/
he would have gotten a lot more merit $âŠ
Any top student looking for a lot of merit $$ needs to cast a wide net AND be aware of which colleges award big merit $$ in an effort to enroll top students, and those that dont need to throw merit $$ at students , loke most of those you listed, to get them to enroll.
My sonâs experience for Fall 2017 (Electrical Engineer major) is as follows:
Received merit scholarship for half tuition (about $27k) - Northeastern, Case Western, Northwestern, USC (Presidential Finalist)
Received $10K merit - Purdue, U of MN Twin Cities
Received $13 merit - Iowa Sate U
Received $2.5k merit - UIUC, James Scholar
Received $0 - UM Ann Arbor, UT-Austin,
Received full tution merit - Lehigh, Miami U
Heâs stats include 35 ACT, 7 AP (all 5âs), 4.5 UW GPA, sports, various clubs, NMF
He applied EA to most schools. Only RD applications were to UT-Austin, UM-Ann Arbot, Lehigh, Northwestern
Our EFC is high but he was awarded $15K from several outside private scholarships. All were stackable.
U of Nebraska offers good merit for less than stellar stats. 13k for 27 ACT and As. Tuition is only 24k oos state anyway, so a really good deal for a big 10 school that is located in a city.
My daughterâs experience for Fall 2017
Received 30K merit Hobart & Williams Smith Colleges
Received 30K merit Wheaton (MA)
Received 29K merit Saint Michaelâs (VT)
Received 20K merit Mount Holyoke
Canât remember Emerson but not much.
U-Mass honors about $1,700
Her stats include 1450 SAT, 8 AP, 4.25 GPA, Dancer plus usual ECâs
Vanderbilt has good merit aid? I know someone who had a 36 ACT and 4.0 and still had to pay alot with his scholarship