<p>I’m not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the University of Michigan does give merit scholarships, and students don’t send out a separate application.</p>
<p>The big ones are worth everything - tuition, room and board (and a few nice things on top.) There are several others that cover quite a bit of tuition. However, there aren’t a whole lot of these scholarships, and it’s pretty tough to get them.</p>
<p>American gave D Presidential scholar - 4 yrs. tuition paid without separate app, and Trinity U in San Antonio gave her Murcheson scholarship, they have graduated amounts. Last year the high was 11,000, which is the Murcheson. U of Chicago also has scholarships, but they are few and far between. Turns out the FA at Amherst was better without merit scholarships. So, don’t just look at merit amounts - sometimes the FA package can be better.</p>
<p>MIT gave me SUBSTANTIALLY more money in grants than they promised me on my financial aid statement. Almost 5 digits. I also know people who were awarded so much in grants it covered their tuition and then some, i.e., they receive something like a stipend while being here. (or, perhaps, they are MAKING money by going to MIT)</p>
<p>i got a 7.5k a year scholarship award from Uof Minnesota: Twin Cities without asking.</p>
<p>This is a befuddling aspect of the admissions game. Some schools offer both kinds of scholarships - those you apply separately for, and those you don’t (Vanderbilt, BU, Pitt). Some schools have an earlier, EA-type of deadline for students who want to be considered for merit scholarships (Emory, BC), then either a separate app (Emory Scholars) or no separate app (BC Presidential Scholars). Some aid is distributed on a rolling basis, without a separate app but with an early, not-well-specified deadline (U-M). Some scholarships with a separate app are for full COA (Pitt, others) some for full tuition (BU, Vandy, others), some for less.</p>
<p>Confusing!</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman gives merit aid based on the original application.</p>
<p>The University of Florida offered me two scholarships worth more than tuiton and room&board combined without me asking. (not merit)</p>
<p>Along with son’s acceptances came:</p>
<pre><code>American University - full tuition
George Washington University - Presidential Scholarship ($18,000/yr)
New York University - $7000/yr
</code></pre>
<p>We didn’t apply for any scholarships or merit money at these schools – they just came!</p>
<p>Of course my son decided to go to a school where we’re paying full tuition.</p>
<p>“This is a befuddling aspect of the admissions game. Some schools offer both kinds of scholarships - those you apply separately for, and those you don’t.”</p>
<p>I think Wash U must be one of these. Some kids on that board are saying they got something called a Thomas H. Eliot scholarship without asking that isn’t listed in with Wash U’s academic scholarships. Of course not my S :(</p>
<p>Also, FYI Wash U’s academic scholarships aren’t up to date on the list that Optimizerdad posted back in January (re-linked below), for instance the Olin business school has 5 partial tuition scholarships in addition to the one full tuition (but considering Wash U has a 4.3B endowment it’s still peanuts and ridiculous).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.catlin.edu/actions/getbinary?asset_id=3168[/url]”>http://www.catlin.edu/actions/getbinary?asset_id=3168</a></p>
<p>DD applied to two schools and received merit offers from both. ACT 33, 4.2-something gpa (higher now) and lots of ECs.</p>
<p>Centre - $60,000 ($15k per year)
Hendrix - $66,000 ($16,500 per year - $15k merit, $1k early FAFSA submission, $500 participant in scholarship weekend)</p>
<p>She did not have to do anything extra to get the merit money … a simple application for admission was all it took.</p>
<p>My D got $7750/yr from Univ of Missouri-Rolla merit aid, which should cover full tuition (at least the first year…). 3.9 GPA/33 ACT/top 3%</p>
<p>I stumbled on this site which lists individual students’ stats and $ offers they got from various schools.</p>
<p><a href=“http://wwwf.countryday.net/college/scholarship_offers.htm[/url]”>http://wwwf.countryday.net/college/scholarship_offers.htm</a></p>
<p>An eariler poster said their child got nothing from Purdue but classmates with lower stats got full tuition. What’s up with that? I notice on this chart that somebody with 3.57 GPA/1190 SAT got $44,000 from Purdue. My D only got $14,000 (OOS). Purdue didn’t ask for essays or recommendations, so she didn’t send any. Maybe that makes the difference?</p>
<p>OK, so get this. Am pretty new to CC and was reading this thread for the first time earlier this morning (see my earlier post re Wash U), saw someone’s post about the $10K per year Dean’s scholarship at Lehigh being one that kids got without having to submit a special application. Said hmm, maybe S should have applied there after all. Out of blue what comes in mail today–acceptance to Lehigh with the Dean’s scholarship $10K per year. What is weird is that I swear S never finished the app–he had listed Lehigh on the common app, but after we did a campus visit and didn’t like Bethlehem or the dorms we decided against having him submit the supplement.</p>
<p>You’re gonna think I’m putting you all on, I know, but honest to gosh every word is true.</p>
<p>I got 25700 dollars (Trustees scholarship) from Case Western Reserve without applying separately.
From Washington University at St. Louis I was named Thomas H. Eliot Scholar and got 19500 dollars without applying separately.</p>
<p>University of Miami is very generous with merit based scholarships - I believe that all of the scholarships listed below do not require additional paperwork. </p>
<p>Isaac Bashevis Singer Scholarship
Full tuition
$29,890 annually
$119,560 total for four years
Top 1% class rank
A+ average
1500 SAT I or 34 ACT</p>
<p>Bowman Foster Ashe Scholarship
3/4 tuition
$22,417 annually
$89,670 total for four years
Top 5% class rank
A average
1400 SAT I or 32 ACT</p>
<p>Henry King Stanford Scholarship
1/2 tuition
$14,945 annually
$59,780 total for four years
Top 7% class rank
A average
1350 SAT I or 31 ACT</p>
<p>George Edgar Merrick Scholarship
1/3 tuition
$9,963 annually
$39,853 total for four years
Top 10% class rank
A average
1300 SAT I or 30 ACT</p>
<p>Jay F. W. Pearson Scholarship
1/4 tuition
$7,472 annually
$29,890 total for four years
Top 10% class rank
A- average
1280 SAT I or 28 ACT</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,29532-1;40341-2;29913-2;29467-3,00.html[/url]”>http://www.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,29532-1;40341-2;29913-2;29467-3,00.html</a></p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>My daughter got a scholarship offer with her admission, which was very nice. Very good school, but her heart is set on W&L.</p>
<p>Son got Trustee’s scholarship from Case, and quite a number of departmental/other scholarships from Univ. of Cincinnati–but he’s going to Case! Other son got scholarships from UIUC without separate app. No FAFSAs involved in either case.</p>
<p>Re: The College of New Jersey/Rutgers and all New Jersey state schools: We attended TCNJ’s open house on Sunday and were told that the reason the merit scholarship table has been removed from the website is because the program is in jeopardy. It may be slashed or eliminated as part of Governor Corzine’s belt tightening for the state. All in attendance were urged to protest the move on Corzine’s website.</p>
<p>I started this thread over a year ago and I’m glad to see that it is still going.</p>
<p>Don’tPanic1 , thanks for the link. I’m really surprised at some of those scholarship offers.</p>
<p>imiracle911: You received the Eliots scholarship because you applied for financial aid, for the merit scholarships at WUSTL, you have to apply with essays and recommendations.</p>
<p>Cornell University gives the John McMullen Dean’s Scholarship of engineering without applying for fin aid.</p>