<p>“^Did the Mudd Scholarship change?” - Yes, it did change just this year. But even before that I think only 25% of the students received it. </p>
<p>Mudd claimed the change would allow some wiggle room for outstanding canditates (example - 11% rank in a math/science magnet school). But it seems they added other unpublished criteria too. </p>
<p>Colorado_kid was accepted at Mudd, but with no merit $ or FA (except unsub Stafford loans). He had 2390 SAT, 800 Math2 SAT, 800 Physics SAT, 5% class rank (USN&WR top-200 school), rigorous IB courseload, and tons of interesting EC and awards. We knew admission was subjective and only a maybe, but we thought if accepted surely he would get the merit scholarship. In the end we opted for a full tuition NMF scholarship elsewhere. </p>
<p>For those families considering MIT, those stats did not get him into MIT. (That was OK because due to CC research we knew it was a long shot anyway. And by the time March rolled around he was more interested in other schools.)</p>