<p>DD visited Mines and fell in love. They told us last spring the max merit OOS was $12K and the rule of thumb was 3.85 UW and 680 math. A tier down is $9k. When I called the financial aid dept this fall to verify those numbers, they said they currently had consultants in-house and were going to be releasing new #'s in Feb. I plan to call next month and get the new info. They did tell us that while that was max merit internally, there is still alot of merit aid available from external companies (like the Shell mentioned above). One the mentioned in particular for girls is the Women in Engineering scholarship if she could get an ACT above 31 (she did!). Mines also has athletic scholarships and I’ve heard even marching band scholarships! Seems like the assumption above was that you couldn’t get more than $12K total per year, but I don’t think that’s true at all.</p>