What colleges give full scholarships to National Merit Finalists and Schoalrship recipients?

Question

I heard that there are some colleges that give scholarships to students who have been named either scholarship winners or possibly just finalists in the National Merit Competition. Does anybody know what they are?

Answer 1

If you look at the National Merit website, they have a list of the numbers of NM kids that got scholarships.

Every year about 15,000 kids are finalists. Many top schools offer no scholarships at all for these kids (eg Harvard, Princeton, Duke have many NM finalists and give them no money) and other schools give lots of money up to and including full rides to NM finalists. It depends on whether the school wants and needs to 'bribe' (discount, scholarship, whatever you want to call it!)students to come there. Harvard does not need to give good students a bribe to come there, but maybe Utah State does!

In a lot of cases, the NM scholarship is jjust a couple thousand dollars. That's good, but if the tuition for the school is $29,000 it doesnt help too much!

Answer 2

What colleges give full scholarships to National Merit Finalists and Schoalrship recipients?
http://scholarshipfaqs.net

Answer 3

I think you would have to do a search on National Merit Scholarships, or for the colleges you have in mind. Some might give a full scholarship, others a partial. There are so many schools to look at.

Answer 4

I was a semi-finalist and got full scholarship offers to Utah State University and Texas A&M so I'm sure that these schools would love to give Finalists the same or better offers.

Answer 5

Most state colleges would give full ride to finalists, but the top universities and liberal arts colleges don't give much.