@katliamom It was said earlier in the thread that “An int’l student isn’t going to find a true free ride merit scholarship into a US school”. I was simply pointing out an example of an international student who did receive an almost full ride merit scholarship this year at UNC (though presumably not flight and health insurance). But I noted how difficult that was and how talented you needed to be to get such a scholarship: in this case the student was so talented that she also got admitted to Stanford. I didn’t say anything about being offered a full ride at Stanford.