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[EmsDad]

@MTDad27 in response to your post:

What we really need is a thread that tells what % financial aid schools give and if it’s talent, merit or need based.

You can get most of this information from the Common Data Set for any school. Just google, “[school name] Common Data Set” and you should be able to find it. Look for Section H, which contains data for both need-based and non-need-based Fin Aid. Note that academic merit and talent awards are all lumped together as non-need-based aid.

You can also get this data from College Data dot com for all schools, packaged into a relatively easy-to-read tabbed format.

For example, Table H2A Number of Enrolled Students Awarded Non-need-based Scholarships and Grants contains lots of good information.

Here is a line from Ball State’s H2A Table:

Average dollar amount of institutional non-need-based scholarship and grant aid awarded to students: (First-time Freshman) $7,280 (Full-time Undergrad) $8,040 (Less Than Full-Time Undergrad) $4,659

link: Box

Here is one from NYU’s H2A Table:

Average dollar amount of institutional non-need-based
scholarship and grant aid awarded to students: (First-time Freshman) $4,816 (Full-time Undergrad) $5,522 (Less Than Full-Time Undergrad) $4,322

link: https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/CDS_2019-2020_4_01rev.pdf

As you can see, Ball State is more generous with non-need-based scholarships and grants than NYU, especially on a percentage of tuition basis (this should hardly be a surprise to anyone).

Here is an old thread where I compiled a lot of this data in 2015:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1745140-which-schools-give-the-best-merit-aid-another-freakonomics-post-p1.html