Merit Scholarship Results
Demographics: NC resident, no financial need
Academics: 1430 SAT, 4.52/5.0W GPA, 3.83 UW GPA, class rank 24/612, 34 AP/IB/DE
Extracurricular: art social media w/ 10k followers, intern at art nonprofit, President of 2 clubs, 2 varsity sports, 6 honor societies
Major: Applied as either chemical engineering or economics + chemistry
Results:
UNC Chapel Hill
NC State University (honors + 18k total amongst 3 smaller scholarships)
UNC Charolette (full ride semifinalist +3k)
UNC Wilmington (honors + 4.5k/year)
University of South Carolina (scholars program + automatic 16.5k/year *did not submit SAT here otherwise it would be higher)
University of Minnesota (15k/year)
Elon (9.5k/year)
University of Vermont (25k/year)
Trinity University (30k/year)
Worchester Polytechnic Insitute (28k/year)
University of Richmond (~20k/year)
Rochester Polytechnic Institute (41.5k/year)
George Washington University (25k/year)
Oberlin (30k/year)
Clark University (30k/year)
Kenyon College (30k/year)
Reed College (25k/year)
Creigton University (WashU joint program + 27k/year)
Missisipi State (Automatic, 22k/year)
University of Alabama (STEMMBA + Automatic 31.5k/year)
Loyola University Chicago (31.5k/year)
Thought I would share for students looking to see which colleges offer the most merit scholarships. I applied during periods with fee waiver for most of the applications except my in state ones.
My public in state schools, U of Alabama, and Mississippi State ended up having lowest cost of attendance.