Possible merit scholarships?

Giantfan
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:58:13 +0000

If your daughter is OK with smaller private schools, there is a lot of money out there. With a 3.4 GPA and a 1280 SAT, I so far have 11 different merit scholarship offers (out of 12 acceptances), ranging from $12K/year to $28K/year. I have not won any academic honors, competitions, or awards and am not in student government, nor did I found my own startup company or anything like that. All of those schools except one have “average” SAT and GPA scores higher than mine, so I am not sure why they all admitted me and want to give me money, but clearly, it’s possible since it is happening! Schools that admitted me are in California, Oregon, Ohio, Montana and Pennsylvania. We definitely don’t qualify for financial aid, either, by the way. Good luck to your family.