What colleges allow you to stack merit and need based aid?

[mitchklong]

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You FAMILY contribution will NOT get reduced. It just won’t. You could get tons of outside scholarships, and the best that will happen is that your self help portion of any need based aid awarded by Wellesley will be replaced by that scholarship

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<p>Thumper I don’t understand this comment. If I had 10K or need and I brought in a 20K scholarship, are you saying they would only accept 10K of it ?</p>