Website that calculates automatic full tuition scholarships

<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I was impressed at all of the information posted at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html&lt;/a> , so I decided to make a website that calculates the automatic full scholarships you can get based on your grades:</p>

<p>CollegeMerit</a> - Colleges that offer full merit scholarships</p>

<p>Let me know if you have any questions.</p>

<p>That is amazing. I hope a lot of readers see this as I think it will be one of the most valuable cc posts ever. Great job.</p>

<p>Very nice. The hard part will be keeping the listings up to date since colleges can change their scholarship levels every year.</p>

<p>That’s cool!</p>

<p>What a great resource! Thank you so much.</p>

<p>Totally awesome - thanks!</p>

<p>Thank you for doing this.</p>

<p>Love it! Thanks!!!</p>

<p>Fantastic – thank you!</p>

<p>That is amazing. Thanks for posting it!</p>

<p>Really nice! Thank you!</p>

<p>Thanks for the compliments.</p>

<p>By the way, there was a bit of traffic on Reddit ( <a href=“http://redd.it/1hm94e[/url]”>http://redd.it/1hm94e&lt;/a&gt; ) and Hacker News ( <a href=“https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989483[/url]”>Show HN: Calculate full scholarships available based on your grades | Hacker News; ).</p>

<p>Even with perfect marks, only 20 schools or so appear. This limits the usefulness, particularly considering there are very few public state schools among the results.</p>

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<p>What the heck are people looking for?! Shut up & be glad there are 20 or so FREE options based solely on grades/scores … meaning that no kid with great grades/scores who is willing to take a free ride will go without. This should be excellent news for students whose families are too “rich” for aid & too “poor” to pay for college.</p>

<p>Thank you for the link!!! :)</p>

<p>Nice app. One improvement would be to specify whether gpa is weighted or unweighted. UA’s scholarships are generally based on weighted gpa. I don’t know about the others. Maybe the app could ask for both weighted and unweighted gpas and go from there.</p>

<p>Oh brilliant</p>

<p>collegedadnh, do you have data on which ones are weighted and which ones are not?</p>

<p>And how they should be weighted?</p>

<p>If all the weighted gpas have a similar weighting system, I can go do it. Otherwise, it would probably make more sense for me to make simpler additions (like calculating Utah State).</p>

<p>sorry collegemerit, can’t help there. I don’t know where you pull your data from to begin with. I just happen to know from reading the FAQ that UA considers weighted gpa if its on the transcript. You wouldn’t be able to calculate it since it requires knowledge of too many specifics about the transcript in order to compute for AP and honors courses.</p>

<p>very nice, thanks!</p>

<p>Thanks, collegedadnh.</p>

<p>I actually pulled the data from the college confidential thread (I give credit to it on the bottom of the page). I went through all the links and double checked that they covered full tuition or more.</p>