Getting a ride: Who's looking for my hispanic female math/chem major?

[MisterK]

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MrK, I never claimed he got merit money at any school which doesn’t give merit aid. Point to where I said that, please.

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<p>Perhaps you misspoke; here you very clearly make that argument (the discussion is about merit money):</p>

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@emilybee

“Except the issue is that colleges ‘buy’ students (with merit money) that can bring them top gpa’s and/or top test scores. A 3.6 may be enough to gain admission to a higher-ranked, test-optional, female-only school, but it is unlikely to garner any free money (at Mt. Holyoke since I believe that Smith is need-only).”</p>

<p>I found this to be the exact opposite for my son. The higher the USNWR ranking the more merit money he got and the highest ranked gave him the most and that was a school which gives no merit money, only institutional aid.

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<p>Your terminology complicated things, so probably it’s not what you meant. But this last statement got me thinking that I had missed a source of merit dollars in my own research.</p>

<p>Anyway, thanks to entomom and 2collegewego for deciphering, and unraveling the confusion.</p>