Stupid question: How exactly do merit scholarships work?

twoinanddone
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 18:43:05 +0000

One of my daughters was accepted to a state school with automatic scholarships for OOS students; she got a separate letter, but on the same day as her acceptance. My other daughter was accepted at a private school and about a month later received a ‘possible’ financial aid breakdown, which is only based on her stats and scores. She must submit her fall grades and any additional SAT/ACT scores and a final financial aid package will be ready in January (after FAFSA, but she won’t get anything from ‘need’ based aid because she has an athletic scholarship).

So it depends is the answer.