Outside Scholarships for students without financial need

LoveTheBard
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:49:43 +0000

Among research universities, she got full tuition scholarships at Wash U., USC (California), and Vanderbilt; among LACs she got full tuition at Grinnell and Kenyon. Other schools, including UChicago, Rice, Bryn Mawr, and Scripps gave her their maximum scholarships, generally between $25K and 35K. The ones that got away were the full rides: Davidson’s Belk and Duke’s Robertson (she was a semifinalist for both) and the AB Duke.

Her very targeted school list consisted only of schools that gave generous merit, the UCs, and HYPS. For schools that required additional scholarship applications (namely WashU, Vandy, Duke’s Robertson and Davidson’s Belk), she submitted the additional essays and applied to any that she felt qualified for based on academic scholarship, diversity, and leadership.