<p>Why Too Kay, looking back at some of your earlier posts, you wrote that UT gave you $1k in merit money. Agreed, it’s not a huge amount, but it’s significantly more than zero. Since UT no longer awards National Merit, as noimagination states, I’m not following why you are complaining about merit aid at UT.</p>
<p>As for “academically poor” “random tier-3 schools in neighboring states”, full tuition at Pitt and the possibility of a full ride at Pitt isn’t something to take lightly. CC boards are full of stories of students who had tippy-top acceptances in hand, and gladly took the Pitt offer instead. You chose to go elsewhere. Again, that doesn’t mean that you were awarded not one dollar of merit aid.</p>
<p>Did you apply to USC? That’s a school with an excellent business department that awards generous merit aid.</p>