<p>I said top 100 schools, NEU is one. Yes there are other good smaller or lower ranked schools where the stats will be good enough. But as it is not many top 100 offer merit, so of those that do offer large merit it’s extremely competitive. Full tuition merit would require high SAT (probably higher than 2250) AND top 5% or higher in class rank.</p>
<p>Of course the “NMF” schools won’t be a problem, but there’s not too many of those that offer full tuition… I’d bet well under 10</p>
<p>I didn’t say NEU full tuition isn’t real, the question is whether or not it’s automatic if you’re NMF (and of course get admitted). Do ALL NMF enrolled students at NEU get full tuition? 100 is quite large, maybe it in fact is all.</p>
<p>My only point to OP, let NEU be 1st option, but keep searching for alternatives just in case they don’t come through for whatever reason.</p>