<p>I don't like the title of the other thread. What I really want to know and what may be helpful to me and others is which schools gave scholarships to students without the students asking? This may help people realize that some schools are cheaper than they look.
A friend of mine told me her daughter received $12,000 scholarships from both the University of Puget Sound and the University of Denver without asking. Her stats were around a 1300 SAT and a 3.8 gpa. Anyone with similar stories?</p>
<p>A friend's son applying to University of Arkansas Honors was pleasantly surprised with $5,000 a year. Hey 25k is 25K. They were stunned as they filled out nothing but the app. No Fafsa. (Dad is loaded. LOL.)</p>
<p>Cornell has some scholarships that the admissions office nominates students for. There's no application.</p>
<p>my school automatically gives a 1/3 scholarship if your sat is over a certain amount (i think)</p>
<p>fendergirl, what school are you talking about?</p>
<p>UofA...they shoved me the Presidential Scholarship and a load of other things that I never asked for.</p>
<p>york college. it's in pennsylvania.</p>
<p>I got a HUGE ($25K+ per year) scholarship at American University, they had no separate application or anything - just looked at the regular app for scholarship consideration (but maybe it had to be in a half a month before the final deadline? i don't remember)</p>
<p>the University of Portland just gave me 48k! 12k a year, woo woo. I have a 3.8 and a 1400</p>
<p>Willamette, Trinity University, Arizona State, Tulane, Knox , University of Redlands , St Louis University, Whitman, Lewis and Clark are some I am familiar with but there are many more</p>
<p>The Merit Scholrships mentioned are based upon academic merit only. The application is the equivalent of what the FAFSA is for need</p>
<p>Promises (I'd guess you'd call them bribes) have been given to my D by several colleges/U's prior to application, based on her record. Before & since application, UC Berkeley has been trying to lure her with scholarships. </p>
<p>This would all have to be merit, as no financial aid info was filed prior to the offers.</p>
<p>But I think this was discussed by other families, too, on the Overwhelmed with College Mail thread.</p>
<p>St Joseph in Pa actually publishes a scale. Tulane offered my son a significant discount and so did the University of Maryland - but Maryland's was only for one year with a GPA requirement and no indication it would be extended. There are a lot of other schools out there that will do the same but the very best deal I have heard of is the Franklin W Olin College of Engineering which is free if you can manage to get in. Of course you had better have the kind of numbers that MIT would want to get. We had two kids go from my sons High School graduating class. My understanding is one of them turned Harvard down.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.olin.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.olin.edu/</a></p>
<p>rice gives merit awards with no additional application.</p>
<p>St. Joseph's chart is great.
<a href="http://www.sju.edu/admissions%5B/url%5D">www.sju.edu/admissions</a></p>
<p>We were under the impression that none of my D's colleges offered merit aid and only had need based aid (for which she did get finanical aid). A very pleasant surprise was when acceptances came in April, two school offered her merit based scholarhips that we never knew existed (no application for them). One school was Smith (involved a research assistantship) and the other was for a more substantial amount at Lehigh and it had various perks too. Her other schools really did not have merit aid. We were unaware of these awards at Smith or Lehigh ahead of time. She also got full tuition and more at Univ. of Vermont. However, she was offered that scholarship before applying, so filed an application (why not) as they waived the fee. The school was not on her list but since she had a free ride, she submitted the application.</p>
<p>Boston University awarded S half-tuition ($15K) based on stats and early decision application. PROFILE and FAFSA are required for merit aid as well as need based aid.
University scholarship is renewable annually if he has at least a 3.2 GPA. We're assuming that in March he'll be invited to the Honors College program.</p>
<p>Allegheny college, based on SAT's and (I assume) with the rest of the application reasonable. 15k/yr merit - 1460 SAT.</p>
<p>My daughter was offered merit money from Otterbein (in Ohio) and from Oklahoma City University. Otterbein lists in their web site the amount of money in relation to ACT scores.</p>
<p>She is now at Millikin University (Decatur, IL) and they gave her $10,000 a year merit without an extra form.</p>
<p>ACT: 27
GPA: ~3.8
Top 10% of class</p>
<p>Peg</p>
<p>All NYU applicants are automatically considered for merit scholarships, with no separate application.</p>