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It seems to me that any award that considers need is need based financial aid. I think only those scholarships that you mentioned that don't require filing a FAFSA or Profile are merit awards. Everything else is need based financial aid.
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D1's college required us to fill out the FAFSA and PROFILE before she could be considered for any merit aid. Our EFC was 99,000...so I guarantee that we received no need-based aid. However, the school did give her a merit award of 16K/year.
So for us, it was worth filling out the FAFSA even though we knew we would not qualify for need-based aid. D2 is a rising senior. We will not fill out the FAFSA again, unless she applies to a school that requires it to be considered for merit aid.