| Indiana's Wells Scholars is a good program, but you can only be nominated through your high school (up to TWO people per HS). Only certain schools are able to nominate students.... so check with your counselors to see if your high school is a feeder. Other than that, IU's merit awards are pretty basic... Up to $8,000/year for merit, plus a smaller honors college scholarship.
Miami University (OH) has the Harrison Scholarship, which is given to about 40 students per year. Last year, all 36 (I think that's how many were selected last year, give or take a few) received full tuition, room and board, but normally I believe some receive full tuition and others get tuition and room and board. There is also the University Honors Program (Harrisons are automatically admitted), which has an annual scholarship. I believe around 150 students per year are admitted to that, and still others are Oxford Scholars and receive a smaller annual scholarship. I believe Miami gives more merit money other than these scholarships as well.
DePauw (IN) offers several full tuition and possibly room and board scholarships as well. I don't know very much about this, other than the fact that two of my classmates applied and received the scholarship.
Denison is also supposed to be fairly generous, although I barely know anything about this school.
I turned down Wellesley in favor of the Harrison Scholarship at Miami. I would highly recommend applying if you are at all interested in Miami. Traditionally, each Harrison class takes a trip together somewhere... one year they went to Italy... another year was somewhere else in Europe, plus you work with a faculty mentor among other things. It is very true that programs like this want to "poach" students from the Ivies and upper LACs, so unless you are competitive at the very top schools, it's hard getting a full ride anywhere. |