Parents, your experience with required GPA level for Large Merit Scholarship?

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@tk21769

I’ve run a number of hypothetical scenarios, across a wide range of income/asset combinations, and have yet to come across a spread that is that large for the subsets of those schools I’ve considered so far.

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<p>You must have missed this thread:
<a href=“"Meet full need" schools can vary significantly in their net prices. - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1675058-meet-full-need-schools-can-vary-significantly-in-their-net-prices-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Income $100,000, assets $400,000 ($200,000 of which is home equity), one student in college, gave net price of $11,817 at Yale and $51,543 at USC, both of which claim to “meet full need” (also $32,563 (list price) at in-state UCLA).</p>