How much do parents with high EFC weigh merit aid?

momtotwins
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:05:40 +0000

If Case has given a big merit award and Hamilton no aid, why not try Case? If he doesn’t like it he can always transfer to Hamilton the next year and pay full price. At least you would have saved one year of paying full price. It isn’t as if you are choosing between two merit scholarships that will be gone as a transfer student. He may be perfectly happy at Case. My S was very interested in Case. We live not too far and have passed the campus 100’s of times but never really “saw” it until we toured and were very impressed.
If you start out at Hamilton, the Case scholarship likely won’t be available as a transfer student. As an economics major, he should appreciate the value of a no loan education. Case has a very strong reputation here in our town and I personally have never heard of Hamilton and that is after looking at tons of schools with my kids. – although both of them pretty much ruled out small liberal arts schools after looking at just a few so maybe that is why I haven’t heard of it.