<p>That 1k ‘scholarship’ doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the end of the year they released a list of all the students that won it. I knew two of them, and after discussing with them none of us know where the money came from. We don’t have comparable stats, and we weren’t even all freshmen. I’m unsure if it was merit or not.</p>
<p>As far as the full ride mention, I wasn’t talking about Pitt. I mean schools that list minimum SAT scores for X number of dollars of scholarship on their website. I never applied to any of those schools, they contacted me through the mail.</p>
<p>Likewise with Pitt. I never applied to the school, sent SAT scores, etc. It was just some sort of offer that showed up one day. It’s got a very lowly ranked business program, so I don’t consider it an option.</p>
<p>What I was really trying to say with all my stats, other than NMF, is that there aren’t a lot of scholarships based solely on merit. You always see those “A GPA isn’t everything” scholarships or “More than just a GPA” scholarships. They kinda annoy me, since all I am actually looking for scholarships where the GPA matters, or where the test scores matter. It’s almost like they don’t exist. So many scholarships have a minimum GPA of 2.0 that it’s almost laughable to consider them “scholarships” and not financial aid at that point.</p>
<p>/rant</p>