My daughter is a Freshman at Mount Holyoke and received a Leadership Scholarship for $20,000 per year. She had 1450 New SAT. 8’Aps, and good EC’s. But what I think put her over the top besides two visits and an interview was that she took the most rigorous schedule, top1%, at her high school.
Scripts does offer a $27,000 scholarship—the James E Scripps scholarship. My D was offered that scholarship as merit aid last year (class of 2021). I was pleasantly surprised since I had read that 22K was the biggest merit aid award too.
@smcirish Would you be willing to share her stats for reference?
@LibbyOK She had a 35 ACT, 4.7/4.0 weighted GPA (4.0 UW), senior class president, Gender Equality club president, many theater productions (lead role in 4), and expressed a lot of interested in women’s colleges (she attended a young women’s leadership institute at a women’s college). She also visited and interviewed with Admissions at all of the colleges she applied to that offered interviews. In the end she’s unbelievably happy at Mount Holyoke. It’s all about finding the best fit (and the full tuition scholarship helped a little too). 
My DD got a STRIDE from Smith-ACT 34, full IB curriculum with 2years of HL physics plus BC calc and a 97 unweighted average. Varsity athlete, drama club officer, lots of music performance. Wants to study marine bio. She loves the campus and how friendly everyone is!
Can confirm James E. Scripps award at Scripps is $27k annually as my daughter just received that offer a couple days ago. Of course, they are at the very tippy top of overall cost! Still, she’s very interested. She got an early write acceptance to MoHo and is waiting on whether she gets offer of merit aid. She has a friend there and would love to visit.
We are right at the cusp of need-based aid and if she does get into Barnard I think it’ll only be with loans and don’t expect it’ll compete with Scripps’ offer. (She’s also got one great merit-aid offer from a terrific co-ed LAC and the Honors program at very good and affordable in-state flagship,both of which she’s considering, but that’s off topic.)
She didn’t apply to any other women’s colleges. She has co-ed schools on her list too and had couldn’t apply everywhere!!!
Congrats @AlmostThere2018 ! Check out my post #9 — Depending on your financial situation (and whether it is still their policy–I have yet to see someone confirm it of late) the JES could be worth even more. It worked out great for us.