Stupid question: How exactly do merit scholarships work?

handsomepanther
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:52:03 +0000

I’m a high school senior right now and I’ve heard a lot of my peers get acceptance letters and scholarships (e.g. some person says “I got $X from Y school”). I’ve so far only gotten accepted to UIUC and OSU, and neither of them have included scholarships of any kind in their letters. Am I missing something? Or do those other colleges just do things differently? And if so, when can I expect to hear about my own merit scholarships from the schools I’ve heard back from? Thanks in advance.