Which of these schools give money?

Paying for College
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<p>I need to know which of these schools that I am applying to gives the most money. Please go through the list and let me know. </p>

<p>GW
Georgetown
American
UMD College Park
Michigan Anne Arbor
NYU
Fordham
Columbia
Towson?</p>

<p>On a non need basis, I am middle class and will not qualify for need basis.</p>

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<p>Take Georgetown and Columbia off of your list. They provide need based aid ONLY.</p>

<p>Re: the others…there is no way to answer your question without a LOT more information. If you are looking for aid that is NOT need based, you are looking for MERIT aid which is based on your academic stats…ACT or SAT score AND GPA. Without knowing those things…it’s impossible to tell you IF you would even qualify for aid at these schools. In addition. you list a few public universities. Are you instate for any of them? Typically merit aid for instate students is better than for OOS students.</p>

<p>How much aid are you looking for?</p>

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<p>I was just looking for if in general they give money. And yes I live in MD</p>

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<p>Check out this thread in the Parents Forum. The thread shows the percentage of non-need students who received merit aid. If the colleges in which you’re interested aren’t listed on the chart, you can figure out their statistics using the directions on the thread. If you do, other readers would appreciate your adding the results you find to the list:</p>

<p>Merit Aid Percentage from Common Data Set</p>

<p>If the link doesn’t appear, I’ll try to find out how to add it.</p>

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<p>Here is the link:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set.html?highlight=percentages[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set.html?highlight=percentages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>UMCP and Towson both give merit money. For merit at CP, your numbers need to be quite high. Michigan has a few merit scholarships for OOS students, but again, they are very competitive. I agree with Thumper about Georgetown and Columbia. I have no idea about the rest of your list.</p>

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<p>mrtv…all schools “give” money of some kind. As I said earlier, Columbia and G’Town give only need based aid. The rest of your schools do give merit aid of some kind…but there is NO WAY to know if YOU will qualify for it.</p>

<p>Typically merit aid is given to students who are in the tippy top of the applicant pool at the schools. So…one way to “guess” is to look at the accepted student data for last year. If YOUR SAT scores and GPA are way above the 75%ile for accepted students, you might get merit aid. The amount?? No one knows.</p>

<p>Some schools do have guaranteed scholarships for students with certain stats. To my knowledge, none of the schools on your list has this type of aid, but you can check yourself to verify. Go to the school website and do a search for “scholarships”. There may be information on the criteria for scholarship awards.</p>

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<p>As the others have said, no one can answer this question other than the adcoms who are doling out the money. Many of us are very surprised with the outcomes. My son got zero to full ride + with a lot in between. But kids who applied to the very same schools got different merit awards, so who can possibly predict? I certainly couldn’t. I didn’t think we would get more than token amounts which was what my other son got.</p>