Are you familiar with the term “Institutional Merit Scholarship”? These are the merit scholarships offered directly by colleges to attract the best and brightest, and/or most talented students by offering them what are essentially tuition discounts. While there are institutional merit scholarships that range up to full tuition and full Read more…
This post was first published in November 2015. As of version 7.1 of the Full Scholarship List (published 3-13-2019), there are over 1,180 full tuition and full ride academic scholarships listed. Parents of college-bound kids dream of full tuition scholarship and full ride scholarships. For the majority of students, this Read more…
Updated August 2, 2018 There are several methods of finding merit scholarships for top students. Whether you are looking for merit scholarships for top GPAs, merit scholarships for top ACT scores or SAT scores, or a combination, it will require some research time to find the best opportunities for your Read more…
If your child took the ACT test and scored well, you may wonder, is that worth any extra money for college? Yes, it certainly can be! So how do you find scholarships for high ACT scores? Well, it can be very time consuming. I have some tips below on where Read more…
The greatest percentage of merit-based college scholarships come from the colleges themselves. Other than going right to the college websites to search for these merit scholarships, they can be hard to find. MeritAid.com is the best tool I have found for finding these scholarships. What are Merit Scholarships? Before I Read more…
Over the past month, my most popular post, by far, has been Can My Kid Get a Full-Ride Scholarship? I wrote this post back in July. People are mostly finding it when they type in something about “full ride scholarships” into a search engine. The popularity of this topic makes Read more…
For three mornings this week, I spoke to groups of parents and students at the local high school about the college search process. When I spoke to high school juniors and their parents, I stressed that there are several ways to find great deals on colleges. Junior year is the Read more…
Updated 2-4-17 – Updates in red In part 1, I talked about what you can do to minimize your upcoming out-of-pocket college costs when you have a senior in high school who is in the process of getting down to the final college choice. Today, I want to talk about Read more…
When I am talking about “out-of pocket” college cost, I mean what needs to be paid out over and above what the parents and child have already saved for college. The best way to minimize this cost is to minimize the gap between how much the college will cost you Read more…
When you are looking at private colleges, there are two types of financial assistance that may be offered – merit aid and need-based aid. The beauty of merit aid is that it has nothing to do with how much a college thinks you can afford or your actual ability to Read more…