<p>The Fall 2010 entering class at St. Olaf College (tied at #49 on the 2009-10 USNews list as I recall) has about 80 Buntrock scholars—i.e. students who were awarded the top $16K merit scholarship. The Buntrock scholarship is competitive and requires a separate essay. According to stuff sent to my S (who was selected for a Buntrock), about 1000 applicants applied for Buntrock scholarships, about 120 were selected as “finalists” who were interviewed before the final decisions were made.</p>
<p>Richmond and Washington&Lee have a fairly large number of merit scholarships relative to their size.</p>
<p>With LACs, most in the top 50 offer merit/discount aid.</p>
<p>^Actually, that really not true.
These top LACs don’t offer merit aid, and I’m sure there are others.</p>
<p>Amherst
Williams
Wesleyan
Swarthmore
Haverford
Colgate
Pomona
Hamilton</p>
<p>Well, UMich offers automatic merit aid up to full ride, as well as scholarships with applications.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link. That is great! So, if colleges like Case and Northeastern would offer merit-based aid to over 70% of the non-need, then their published tuition is really just nominal to most of its student body. I guess that’s a designed strategy? Interesting.</p>
<p>Well, UMich offers automatic merit aid up to full ride,</p>
<p>I don’t think UMich has “automatic” merit. If you could provide a link that indicates such, please do.</p>
<p>Automatic scholarships specify needed stats and are awarded to all that meet those req’ts. I don’t see where UMich offers that. </p>
<p>Do you mean that UMich has auto scholarships for particular majors? If so, please show that link as well.</p>
<p>I believe that UMich has competitive merit that it awards to some students that it wants for various reasons.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Michigan Office of Financial Aid: OFA Scholarship Listing](<a href=“http://www.finaid.umich.edu/types_of_financial_aid/scholarships/ships.asp]University”>http://www.finaid.umich.edu/types_of_financial_aid/scholarships/ships.asp)</p>
<p>UMich offers the Shipman scholarship, which is merit based and extremely competitive (aka “not automatic”). Though it is not officially a full-ride, the amount equates to a full-ride for in-state students. For OOS, I believe the individual colleges supplement with other scholarships, thus making it practically a full-ride.</p>
<p>The scholarship competition is by invitation only, and only 50 admitted students are invited, out of which 15 are offered the max. amount, the others lesser amounts.</p>
<p>My D got the max (=full-ride, being in-state) and will be attending UMich this fall.</p>
<p>[The</a> University of Michigan Shipman Society](<a href=“U-M Web Hosting”>Under Construction)</p>
<p>I am not aware of any other “automatic” merit scholarships at UMich.</p>
<p>Ah, I meant automatic as in no other application needed, you apply automatically by turning in an application 
sorry for the confusion</p>
<p>Of these, Shipman is the most prestigious. There are also entrance scholarships (Engineering Scholarship of Honor or LSA Scholarship of Honor) which are $20000/yr for out of state applicants, $8000/yr (Engineering Scholarship of Honor) or $10000 (LSA). There are also specific one-time merit scholarships for some entering students. If you have Ivy-worthy stats, you should be able to get merit money from Michigan…</p>
<p>I believe those are the most well-known merit scholarships for UMich…</p>
<p>Probably not top 50… but Case has some great programs and offers excellent merit aid. (Not so for FA though). Superb stats and interesting EC could qualify you for the top award of $27,500/year</p>