Northeast Merit Scholarships

Paying for College Financial Aid (Need-Based, Merit Aid, Loans)
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Yes- my D22 is at UMaine… OOS, with Merit Aid our COA is around 30K/year all in, even living off campus starting soph year. Nice off-campus options.

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SUNY Buffalo was where our SoCal daughter got full merit and honors. I don’t know if they are doing that anymore. Her SATs were higher, so I am assuming that her GPA, rigor and SATs had something to do with that.

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Did your daughter submit test scores? If yes, what were her scores?

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Yes, 33 act.

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OP there is a list of SUNY tuition match schools- here are a few:

SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Geneseo (mentioned)
SUNY Albany
SUNY Oneonta
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Buffalo State participates in the match; SUNY Buffalo does not. Regardless, I would apply to SUNY Buffalo and see if any merit comes your way.

Maybe take a look at Towson?

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If you’re looking for cities, these are some schools you may want to consider that I suspect would have the possibility of getting down to Rutgers’ costs:

  • Emmanuel (MA): About 2k undergrads and a member of Colleges of the Fenway, an association of nearby colleges that allow cross-registration and joint extracurriculars.
  • Manhattan College (NY): About 3100 undergrads
  • Saint Joseph’s (PA ): About 5100 undergrads…already mentioned multiple times
  • Seton Hall (NJ): About 6k undergrads
  • Siena (NY): About 3500 undergrads (just outside of Albany)
  • U. of Hartford (CT): About 4k undergrads
  • U. of Scranton (PA ): About 3600 undergrads
  • Widener (PA ): About 2600 undergrads
  • West Chester (PA ): About 14k undergrads and sticker is below Rutgers’ price

Would you be open to going outside of the northeast on a direct flight away? If you let us know what the most convenient airport is for your family, then that could help broaden options.

Alternatively, if you are willing to go to schools further away from a city, that would open up other possibilities as well.

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The official UVM semester bill dropped today. For OOS, the bottom line is ~$17,300 with the merit aid ($12,500). I’d vouch for the accuracy of the COA calculator throughout the application cycle. UVM posted its 2024-25 costs well before we had to make an attendance decision. UVM OOS ended up cost competitive with Virginia Tech instate (no merit aid).

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