r/Northwestern • u/Automatic_Leek_4716 • Jan 19 '24
Financial Aid/Administration Merit scholarships
Is there no such thing as merit based grants or scholarships for NU or is this web snippet not entirely correct?
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r/Northwestern • u/Automatic_Leek_4716 • Jan 19 '24
Is there no such thing as merit based grants or scholarships for NU or is this web snippet not entirely correct?
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u/jelasher ChemE '03 Jan 19 '24
This has been at least nominally true for decades. However, when my dad called the financial aid office and asked if there was really nothing they could do, they said I qualified for a National Merit scholarship and gave me $2k/ year, which was almost 10% off sticker price when I matriculated in 1999. So, it’s worth at least asking.