I know that such schools would be lesser known schools, but there are families needing help finding some of these schools.
Net cost can be about $15k-20k per year after merit.
Any size schools.
Please provide link to school’s merit page.
This is a great question and I’ve researched some of them, but I haven’t used the school’s merit page. I’ve used a combination of two websites – Collegedata (which shows merit percentages and average amounts) and College Navigator (which shows on their “net price” tab how much a school will cost on average broken down by income level.
Merit amounts alone doesn’t tell you how much a school will cost for a family. That’s why you need both webpages’ information.
University of Toledo
Out-of-state:
http://www.utoledo.edu/admission/freshman/scholarships/2019/out-of-state.html
In-state:
http://www.utoledo.edu/admission/freshman/scholarships/2019/
With that price point and stats, I think the focus needs to be on non flagship state schools.
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Thank you for reminding me about U of Toledo. Excellent merit and the OOS tuition rate is already “lowish” for OOS
Looks like it’s not too hard to get “net costs” down to about $20k per year. ($15k parents, $5k student loan). And if a student can work during summers and part-time during school year, the parent cost or loan cost could be lower…
University of Wyoming – Laramie (flagship)
Out of state – http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/non-residents/
Additional out of state chart – http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/non-residents/rms.html
In-state – http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/residents/
U of Maine at Orono (flagship)
In-state freshman – https://go.umaine.edu/apply/scholarships/flagship-firstyear/
Out of State freshman (flagship matching program) https://go.umaine.edu/apply/scholarships/flagship-match-first-year/
OOS transfer – https://go.umaine.edu/apply/scholarships/flagship-match-transfer/
International – https://umaine.edu/international/scholarships/
Youngstown State, Kent State in Ohio.
Susquehanna, Lycoming in PA. Those might not come down to that price point with merit alone.
They should all give merit estimate in net price calculator.
York College in PA.
@fendergirl if you are still around…maybe you could comment!
Eastern New Mexico State University (Portales, NM)
OOS state/ international student COA $16K
Merit scholarships worth $1100 to $3000 available starting with ACT/SAT scores 20 /1020-1059
https://www.enmu.edu/admission/tuition-and-fees
https://www.enmu.edu/admission/scholarships/out-of-state-freshmen
COA is lower for WUE and TX students.
Students diagnosed w/ communicative disorders get special tuition rates.
Western New Mexico State (Silver City, NM)
OOS COA ~$26K
Merit scholarships calculated on GPA/ACT or SAT/class rank. Can be up to full tuition.
Scholarship calculator here-- https://admissions.wnmu.edu/calc/
Students from Arizona, El Paso, Colorado are eligible OOS tuition remissions.
WUE discounts available.
WNMU has a tuition guarantee-- so long as the student maintains a 2.0 GPA, that student’s tuition & fees will be the same for all 4 years.
S17 was around this range - YorkCollege of Pa ended up closer to $30k, as did Lycoming (which I loved!).
The listed stats are close to the automatic merit at Truman State University. The direct billed costs for out of state students is currently $23,731, and they offer OOS scholarships ranging from $3,500 to $8,000 per year. A 3.30 and 1230 SAT qualifies for a $3,500 scholarship:
https://www.truman.edu/admission-cost/cost-aid/scholarships/automatic-scholarships/
https://www.truman.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TruMerit-Out-of-State-Chart.jpg
Stockton University in NJ, gives merit at around 1220 SAT
https://stockton.edu/admissions/scholarships.html
Not as low of scores as you wanted, but still, good money for NJ and near the beach 
Freshman Awards** *SAT *ACT Class Rank Annual Award
Presidential Scholarship 1450+ 32+ Top 5% up to $18,000 per year
Provost’s Scholarship 1310+ 28+ Top 10% up to $11,000 per year
Dean’s Scholarship 1220+ 25+ Top 15% up to $7,000 per year
Stockton Scholarship varies varies varies $2,000+ per year
Stockton Urban Leadership Award# Top 5% $2,000+ per year
Out-of-State Tuition Scholarship $7,128 per year see below
Daughter has stats in this range. Couple of her merit awards resulted in:
Alfred University (Dean’s Scholarship) bringing COA (OOS) down to about $29K/yr
Montana State - Bozeman (Achievement Award) bringing COA down to $20K/yr for residents of western states (WUE).
Another thing about University of Toledo is that they have quite a good engineering department. They have a mandatory coop program which can lower the cost of an engineering degree even further.
Wingate University in N.C. will give about a $23k scholarship.
NMTech offers guaranteed merit starting at 3.0 GPA and 23 ACT/1130SAT.
https://nmt.edu/finaid/freshmen.php
Merit isn’t HUGE. In the $3K-$6K range, but NMTech’s COA is low. Under $18K instate; under $30K for OOS and internationals.
Mississippi college MC.edu