Barnes Scholarship?

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<p>Here’ some info from the Colorado College website:</p>

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First-Year Financial Aid Statistics
85 percent of total CC dollars based on need</p>

<p>15 percent of total CC dollars based on merit</p>

<p>38 percent of first-year students received need-based aid</p>

<p>47 percent of first-year students received some type of aid</p>

<p>First-year aid packages ranged from $1,000 to $47,000*</p>

<p>Average need-based package was approximately $28,700*</p>

<p>Average need-based scholarships and grants were approximately $24,800*

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<p>Here is the link to 2008-09 merit aid:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dean/oir/documents/CDS2008_2009.xls[/url]”>http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dean/oir/documents/CDS2008_2009.xls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>There was $4,779,789 in merit based aid for that year. Using the freshman percentages, approximately 9% of each class gets merit based aid. So, each freshman class has approximately 50 students getting merit money and merit aid averages about $25,000.00.</p>

<p>So, to answer your question–yes there seems to be sources of merit aid that aren’t on the list under a scholarship name like Barnes. From my S’s experience, if CC “really” wants you, they can and do make merit money available.</p>