Merit Aid at D3s

Athletic Recruits
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Please name these to help this OP.

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For anyone reading this – a school’s Common Data Set, Section H, shows whether, and how much, merit, non-need based aid, is given.

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I put a list of all 400+ b4 and plenty named throughout - and not really sure what the OPs premise and desire is - and a 3.9, 1500 is not an assured admission at many “high” academic schools (maybe recruitment makes it different) - if I assume the meaning to be what we know it is.

Not sure if this is what OP wants
or really what the goal is of the post - that’s what’s I’m asking some
but here’s a few I’d consider high or higher type academic that offer merit aid.

Babson
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Case Western
Chicago
Claremonth McKenna
Connecticut
Denison
Emory
Grinnell
Harvey Mudd
Macalester
RPI
Rochester
Rose Hulman
St. Olaf
Union
WUSTL
Scripps

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I like this College Transitions list pulled from the CDS:

You can sort it by percentage getting merit aid, and then check the average amount of merit aid, to get a snapshot sense of whether they have a robust program.

Obviously you then have to look at colleges of interest in detail, and with discretionary merit you just may not know before you get an offer. But I think this sort of approach can at least generate leads.

In terms of D3s with suitable athletic programs, off hand I do not know of a single source that combines that with CDS data. Assuming it doesn’t exist already, you would have to sort of do it yourself, like have a list of suitable D3 programs and check them against the merit list, or vice versa, to generate leads that are on both lists.

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Not merit, but Williams has an amazing endowment and offers tons of aid.

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Grinnell College
Trinity U
Macalester College
Kenyon College
St. Olaf College
Rhodes College
Denison U
University of the South

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@vanillachocolate2 does your family qualify for need based financial aid? It doesn’t sound like it from your original post.

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Adding Union and Dickinson to @NemesisLead list.

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