<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>