what are the best colleges for merit scholarships?
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['Hollins University. Average merit aid award for a student without need: $29,647. ... ', 'Clarke University. ... ', 'Cardinal Stritch University. ... ', 'Southern Wesleyan University. ... ', 'Agnes Scott College. ... ', 'College of the Ozarks. ... ', 'Lycoming College. ... ', 'Illinois College.']
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Of these leading public universities that do not sponsor merit scholars, UC Berkeley had the most enrolled merit scholars, 161, followed by UT Austin with 74. Among private universities, Harvard enrolled 233 merit scholars, Stanford 179, MIT 154, Yale 147, and Princeton 117.
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['Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ... ', 'Stanford University. ... ', 'Harvard University. ... ', 'California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ... ', 'University of Chicago. ... ', 'Princeton University. ... ', 'Yale University. ... ', 'Cornell University.']
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['Benjamin Franklin College benjaminfranklin.yalecollege.yale.edu.', 'Berkeley College berkeley.yalecollege.yale.edu.', 'Branford College branford.yalecollege.yale.edu.', 'Davenport College davenport.yalecollege.yale.edu.', 'Ezra Stiles College ezrastiles.yalecollege.yale.edu.']
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['Bates College.', 'Bowdoin College.', 'Bryn Mawr College.', 'The George Washington University.', 'Hofstra University.', 'Pitzer College (for students with a ≥3.5 unweighted GPA or who are in the top 10% of their high school class)', 'Sarah Lawrence College.']
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['University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.', 'Harvard University.', 'Stanford University.', 'University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)', 'University of Florida.']
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['Boston University.', 'University of Southern California.', 'University of Illinois--Chicago.', 'University of Pittsburgh.', 'Washington University in St. Louis.', 'Thomas Jefferson University.', 'Colorado State University.', 'Columbia University.']
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['Abilene Christian University.', 'Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.', 'Allegheny College.', 'Amherst College.', 'Art Institute of Houston.', 'Augsburg University.', 'Austin College.', 'Caldwell University.']
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National Merit Scholarship Program The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. Approximately 1.6 million high school students enter the program each year.
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['Lincoln University. ... ', "St Philip's College. ... ", 'Gadsden State Community College. ... ', 'Coahoma Community College. ... ', 'Harris Stowe State University. ... ', 'Bishop State Community College. Mobile, Alabama.', 'Lawson State Community College Birmingham. Birmingham, Alabama.', 'Southern University. Shreveport, Louisiana.']
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['Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... ', 'Stanford University. Stanford, California. ... ', 'Carnegie Mellon University. ... ', 'University of California – Berkeley. ... ', 'Harvard University. ... ', 'University of Cambridge. ... ', 'Princeton University. ... ', 'University of Oxford.']
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National Merit Scholarships provide $2,500 towards the student's freshman year of college. Even better, winning this scholarship (or being a finalist) is prestigious.
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['University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. ... ', 'University of Texas at El Paso. University of Texas at El Paso. ... ', 'Wingate University. Wingate University. ... ', 'Texas State University. ... ', 'Newberry College. ... ', 'South Dakota State University. ... ', 'University of South Dakota. ... ', 'Marietta College.']
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The short answer is that you should aim for an SAT score between 1200 and 1600 if you want to secure some scholarships based on merit–and the higher within that range you score the more money you're looking at.
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['Massachusetts Institute of Technology.', 'Georgia Institute of Technology.', 'California Institute of Technology.', 'Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.', 'Purdue University--West Lafayette.', 'Stanford University.', 'University of Texas--Austin.', 'University of Michigan--Ann Arbor.']
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['UC Berkeley.', 'UC Davis.', 'UC Irvine.', 'UCLA.', 'UC Merced.', 'UC Riverside.', 'UC San Diego.', 'UC San Francisco.']
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['University of California – San Diego.', 'Bentley University.', 'Point Loma Nazarene University.', 'California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.', 'Rollins College.', 'Bellarmine University.', 'California State University – Chico.', 'Western Washington University.']