<p>Hello everyone, My son is a Junior in HS, After countless hours of searching for college info, I have found that what I am most interested in... as well as everybody else i'm sure, is,</p>
<p>How much can we get...from where?
how much did you get...from where?
and with what ACT score and GPA?</p>
<p>With that said I would like to start a post that all can add to, so it will give everyone a better idea what we might expect form merit aid.</p>
<p>Please do not include Financial aid or EFC info. Just merit. </p>
<p>I will start with a friend's info, seeing My son is just a junior in HS. Please add your information..</p>
<p>ACT 27
GPA 4.0 - 4.69 weighted
Received only $1000 from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>ACT 31
GPA 3.97</p>
<p>Coca Cola - $10,000
CoServ - $2500
Best Buy - $1,000
Lyceum - $2,000</p>
<p>Asking just about ACT and GPA may not be hitting the target - some of these scholarships are looking for volunteer work, leadership positions, if you worked while in high school etc. (plus of course the ever important essays)</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>There have been other similar threads. There are other factors to getting $$$.</p>
<p>Are you asking for strictly merit money that is not based on need or other factors? </p>
<p>Are you asking for each person’s best offer or all of their offers?</p>
<p>I think you also have to specify if you’re a URM or not, because some schools give more to URMs to expand the school’s diversity numbers. </p>
<p>If the scholarship was NMF/NA/NH related, the person should state that as well.</p>
<p>So…I think the format should be more like this…</p>
<p>Older son (strictly merit, no FAFSA filed)</p>
<p>ACT : 33
SAT : (don’t remember - somewhere above 2250)
GPA uw/weighted : 4.5 - 4.7
NMF/NA/NH : NMF
URM : No
School: Alabama
Merit Received : full tuition, housing, laptop, study abroad, $1k/yr</p>
<p>younger son (strictly merit, no FAFSA filed)</p>
<p>ACT : 33
SAT : (don’t remember - somewhere above 2250)
GPA uw/weighted : 4.5 - 4.7<br>
NMF/NA/NH : No, but got the special NM scholarship.
URM : No
School: Alabama
Merit Received : full tuition, $2500/yr, and 2k/yr NM special scholarship</p>
<p>They both received $24k per year from Tulane, one got full tuition from Fordham, both got tuition from SLU, and some others.</p>
<p>As usual mom2collegekids you hit the mark again. Your post is exactly what I was looking for.
My son also a 27 act, hope he studies this time he is taking 1 more test, I’m hoping for 3 more points at least. Anyway your info is just what I wanted. I hope people keep adding their information.
Thanks</p>
<p>Son 1:
ACT : 29
GPA uw 3.8
URM : Yes
School: Michigan
Merit Received : full tuition, MEAP $2,500, assorted local scholarships about $3,000</p>
<p>Son 2:
ACT : 31
GPA uw 3.7
NMF/NA/NH : No.
URM : Yes
School: Michitgan Engineering
Merit Received : Umich merit $2,500, MEAP $2,500 various local $9,000</p>
<p>Niece:
ACT : 34
GPA uw 3.6
NMF/NA/NH : yes.
URM : Yes
School: MSU
Merit Received : full tuition, room & board, and books. Attended Umich instead. They gave her nothing but MEAP of $2,500</p>
<p>Son:
ACT: 28
GPA UW: 3.8
URM: No
School:Kettering University
Merit Received: $10,000 Yr</p>
<p>Daughter:
SAT: 2290
GPA: 4.0 unweighted (screwy grading system, did not use 4.0, but she had all As)
NMF: yes (tuition scholarship was not linked to this)
URM: no
School: University of Pittsburgh
Merit: full tuition, NM $1000 per year</p>
<p>I guess we should add for state schools whether being “instate” was needed to get that scholarship with those stats. Many state schools aren’t that generous to OOS students.</p>
<p>In my kids’ case, being a state resident was not required.</p>
<p>Here’s an update with some of the other $$.</p>
<p>Merit: Pitt,full tuition, NM $1000 per year
U.Maryland College Park (in-state) $8000 per year President’s scholarship
Beloit, $10,000 per year
Iowa State, $8500 per year ($1500 was for being a child of a grad)</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids,</p>
<p>“GPA uw/weighted : 4.5 - 4.7” … ?</p>
<p>A few observations … reporting a “weighted” gpa is NOT useful. There is no standard weighting system. Some weight only AP/IB, some weight “honors” classes, some weight college courses taken while in HS, some don’t … It is probably best to report ONLY your unweighted GPA and the SCALE (some use 4.0, some 5.0, some use a 100 point scale while some are totally idiomatic) plus the number of AP/IB classes included in the GPA calculation. For example: </p>
<p>GPA: 4.0(4 point scale) 10 APs …</p>
<p>My info follows …</p>
<p>SAT : 2200 …
GPA: 4.0(4 point scale) 10 APs …
NMF (psat 234)
URM : Yes
School: University of Maryland
Merit Received : Banneker/Key Scholar (Full tuition, fees, room, board, books for 4 years) iPod/phone, plus $3K/year cash from state.</p>
<p>*
A few observations … reporting a “weighted” gpa is NOT useful.*</p>
<p>Not true… while there is no “standard” for weighing grades, my kids’ school awards merit using the weighted GPA that is put on the transcript (the school doesn’t recalculate). So, if a child has an unweighted GPA of - say - 3.4, but his weighted GPA on his transcript is a 3.7, then he’d hit the req’t as long as his test scores meet the req’t.</p>
<p>And, I was just following the initial post where he put:</p>
<p>GPA 4.0 - 4.69 weighted.</p>
<p>“(the school doesn’t recalculate)”</p>
<p>This reminds me of an info session I attended last summer while touring campuses around the country( I think it was at JHU or Cornell). The dean was speaking about the difficulty the admissions office had with high school transcripts they receive from around the country. She said that adcoms spend a great deal of time going over them to make sure that ALL applicants were judged on a level playing field. She told a story about one student that was given a “B” in Lunch and how the adcom had to recalc his GPA to remove the “lunch grade” … </p>
<p>IF Alabama uses some transcripts “as is” it is ONLY because they are already familiar with the system in use. (large in state systems). Adcoms all over the country would never compare apples to oranges in making important admissions decisions. It just wouldn’t make any sense to do so …</p>
<p>Just so people know, most large awards are associated with the school they will be attending. The other scholarships are smaller and usually for only a year.
Son No.1 in class, 2200 SAT’s, NON-URM
Big Y scholarship - $500
Local Scholarship - $500
Rotary Scholarship - $2,000</p>
<p>I would look at this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html</a>
And to add to the info:</p>
<p>DD1
ACT : 34
SAT : 2230
GPA uw/weighted : 3.92UW - 4+W
NMF/NA/NH : NMF
URM : No
School: Denison
Merit Received : full tuition, stipend for study abroad/project/internship, small Ohio in-state grant</p>
<p>DD2
ACT : 34
SAT : 2280
GPA uw/weighted : 4.0UW - 4+W
NMF/NA/NH : NMF
URM : No
School: Lewis and Clark
Merit Received : half tuition, NM Scholarship ($2500)</p>
<p>Son</p>
<p>ACT : 34
SAT : 2090 (Didn’t study, one sitting)
GPA uw/weighted : 4.0 UW, 4.8 W, #1 in his class of 772
NMF/NA/NH : National AP Scholar
URM : No
School: UC Berkeley
Merit Received : $15,000 Merit Scholarship, $6,000 USTA (United States Tennis Assoc.) Serves College Educational Scholarship, and finalist for Cal Alumni Leadership Scholarship far.</p>
<p>How about University Of Kentucky, Anyone get merit aid from Kentucky. Would like to know</p>
<p>Son: or daughter
ACT or SAT score
GPA UW and weighted
Instate or out of state
URM: yes or no
School:
Merit Received: </p>
<p>Would like these posts to be a very helpful guideline for parents to know what they might be able to expect. Please no bragging about your son or daughter, for info only</p>
<p>Ummm I don’t know that people are bragging. They are just listing the accomplishments necessary to get the merit awards they have received. There is a whole lot more involved in getting that aid then just getting the grades…</p>
<p>D1:</p>
<p>SAT : 2370 (1 sitting)
GPA: 4.0 UW (HS doesn’t weight)
NMF/NA/NH : NMF & NH
URM : Yes
School/Merit Received:
UMichigan (OOS): Shipman (full tuition, R&B); Michigan Scholar Award (7.5k/yr; no longer given)
Rice: Trustee (22.5/yr); Century (8k/yr for 2 yrs plus research mentor)
Emory: Emory Scholar (2/3 tuition; didn’t attend scholarship weekend)
WUSTL: invited to scholarship weekend (Danforth & Rodriguez) but could not attend.
Outside scholarships:
NMS: 2.5k
Byrd Scholarship: 1.5k/yr
Legend Homes Scholarship: 1k</p>
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<p>OP, you asked for the information, I don’t see anyone here who has posted more than the pertinent data.</p>
<p>I don’t think 1stcolldad was trying to say that anyone was bragging, just that please do not as parents tend to bragg a little because they are so proud of their kids.
By the way I did notice though that 1stcolldad mentioned that his kid was taking test again and the first time he did not study. Also momfirst3 sounded like she could be bragging a little when she had to mention that her kid did not study and still got an SAT 2250. That could be taken like a little in your face. But I do think that posting this type of information is very helpfull to many parents and I hope people keep posting info.
Have a good day all.</p>