<p>Miami No. 1 in average size of freshman merit scholarships for larger schools. </p>
<p>Check this article in the New York Times and click on the link to the left for a sortable chart with merit-aid totals for more than 600 schools:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/a-rise-in-students-receiving-merit-awards.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/a-rise-in-students-receiving-merit-awards.html</a></p>
<p>The Education Life section in Sunday’s NYT newspaper has another chart that filters out the smaller schools and lists the 100 most-generous colleges for merit aid that have at least 2000 undergrads. That has Miami first.</p>