Merit aid questions

BobWallace
Fri, 03 Jul 2015 22:07:45 +0000

Merit aid is decided long after the ED commitment deadline, so you would have no way of knowing about merit aid if accepted ED.

You can find the statistics on CDS as already suggested, or on collegedata.com which provides most of the same information in more accessible form.

For example, Vandy:

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1562

Merit-Based Gift: 161 (10.0%) of freshmen had no financial need and received merit aid, average amount $18,797