What top-tier schools give out merit scholarships?

<p>I know this might be the wrong section to post this up on, but I figured I'd post it up anyways. So, basically, I was wondering what top schools give out merit based scholarships, cause I heard that schools like Harvard don't usually (or ever) give out scholarships...so, if people could just clarify what schools do and don't give out merit scholarships. Thanks :)</p>

<p>Very few tippy-top schools do, and the scholarships are typically very competitive. Duke has a few, as do Chicago and Emory off the top of my head.</p>

<p>i know Washington Univ. in St.Louis does too
but very few & very competitive</p>

<p>I believe Vandy does as well.</p>

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

<p>So so far we have Vanderbilt, UofChicago, Emory, Washington U in St. Louis, and Duke.</p>

<p>I also heard that UNC-Chapel Hill, Tulane, USC, and Johns Hopkins are also pretty generous.</p>

<p>No Ivy league gives merit scholarships, and neither do Notre Dame nor Northwestern, and I don’t think Stanford, MIT or Cal Tech do either. I think your list is pretty accurate with regard to the schools named; that is that Chicago, WUSTL and Duke have them but very tought to get. I am not sure how generous Vandy and Emory are. UNC I would look into the split of in state and OOS, I just don’t know. Is Johns Hopkins generous? That surprises me some. Tulane definitely is, and Miami (FL) is another that gives a lot of scholarships.</p>

<p>Tulane gives great merit aid: around 35% of admittees get merit aid.</p>

<p>Rice University and University of Michigan both give merit aid: but you’d have to be in the top 10% of the applicant pool, preferably higher, if you want a large sum of aid.</p>