Schools Known for NO Merit Aid

[pdxsuzanne]

<p>sybbie 719, OP here. Creekland got it right. There is a thread called Schools that Offer Merit Aid and it has gotten clogged up with too many posts from parents touting need-based aid. My family is not willing to invest $50-$60K a year for a school that does not offer merit aid and our EFC, like many families, eliminates need-based aid. I’m pretty confident that my D will qualify for merit aid. Like many, I already know that the Ivies don’t provide merit aid and a lot of state schools do not either. But like you said, there are thousands of schools and it’s nice to not spend a lot of time on the Colgates of the world that simply won’t work for our family. For example, I had heard that Franklin & Marshall had offered merit aid in the past and has just recently eliminated it. That’s too bad because it sounded like it would have been a good fit for D. But not at $50K a year so it goes off the list.</p>