College Discussion - View Single Post - Best schools that give the most merit based aid

taxguy · 05-08-2008, 06:28 AM

Both University of Maryland and especially Towson University ( which is part of the Maryland state university system) give out a lot of scholarship money,which includes possible full tuition.

I do know that both Pittsburgh and Miami, Syracuse and RIT give some very good merit aid. In fact, many of the better private schools ( other than the top 1%) usually give out merit aid.

You might even be able to get merit aid from some of the top private schools. We know of one kid who got a complete free ride to Carnegie Mellon. They are known to give out merit scholarsips if you are top notch for the school that you are applying to. We met an Asian girl from Ohio who turned down her instate university to study design at CMU. They gave her enough aid to equal what she would have paid to attend her state university. In fact, she stated that she came out a bit ahead. I think she got this aid because art and design students don't normally get very high SATs, and her SATs were in the top 10-20% of the design students.

05-08-2008, 06:28 AM	#259
taxguy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rockville, Maryland Posts: 4,371	Both University of Maryland and especially Towson University ( which is part of the Maryland state university system) give out a lot of scholarship money,which includes possible full tuition. I do know that both Pittsburgh and Miami, Syracuse and RIT give some very good merit aid. In fact, many of the better private schools ( other than the top 1%) usually give out merit aid. You might even be able to get merit aid from some of the top private schools. We know of one kid who got a complete free ride to Carnegie Mellon. They are known to give out merit scholarsips if you are top notch for the school that you are applying to. We met an Asian girl from Ohio who turned down her instate university to study design at CMU. They gave her enough aid to equal what she would have paid to attend her state university. In fact, she stated that she came out a bit ahead. I think she got this aid because art and design students don't normally get very high SATs, and her SATs were in the top 10-20% of the design students. Last edited by taxguy; 05-08-2008 at 06:36 AM.