I took the list of schools that got my son’s applications several years ago and ran their NPCs using figures that clearly take financial aid out of the picture and show what the guraranteed merit would be at those schools. Those schools with competitive merit money, such as Villanove did not include any merit at all. Fordham did,but the award shown was not as high as he got. Same with Tulane. So those schools appear to work in that fashion.