We can compile a huge list of schools which may actually not help much. What I'd like to propose is that people post a list of links to college scholarship pages that show merit grants and what it takes to qualify for them. For example, Ohio University (Athens, OH) is a public school, but gives automatic aid for certain SAT/GPA/Rank combinations, and also gives extra money for out-of-state students:
http://www.ohio.edu/admissions/schol...scholfresh.cfm http://www.ohio.edu/admissions/gateway/
Also especially interesting is Southwestern University's Merit Calculator for determining in advance how much merit money they'll give you:
http://southwestern.edu/admission-fi...olarships.html
This kind of SPECIFIC information was most helpful to me in doing some research.