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D27 was accepted through Niche direct admission with large merit scholarship ($45,000). She visited and will be applying for separate scholarships and honors, etc. Go Loggers!
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Wow congrats! My kiddo considered Niche but used common app for fear of less merit — looks like that was not the case. Now we are waiting around for EA resonance like chumps 
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We did the same thing with Seattle U. She was accepted through Niche but merit didn’t seem high enough, so she applied through Common App, and now we wait. lol.
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It seems like UPS will be “richer” with merit
Seattle U last year, per CDS, gave 27 merit offers of 420 students averaging $31K.
390 got need aid - most everyone - so that might be (together) pretty much everyone. That’s a high # but perhaps because of it’s Jesuit affiliation.
At UPS, 144 of 380 got merit aid - near $35K on average. A much smaller percentage got need aid but a higher % of actual need is met (90% vs. 78%) at Seattle.
I hope you both get what you need but if you’re a non-need family, it seems UPS will be “richer” but of course Seattle has a lower initial cost base so a lower merit may not necessarily mean higher cost.
Note that Seattle U calendar is based on the quarter system, so that’s another difference if you hadn’t noted.
Good luck