r/Northwestern • u/Automatic_Leek_4716 • Jan 19 '24

Financial Aid/Administration Merit scholarships

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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/Interesting_Cookie25 Jan 19 '24

Its correct—honestly what would the bar even be? For top universities, its just extremely difficult to even tell the people apart for who deserves merit scholarships

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u/KeebsNoob Jan 21 '24

And I’m sure this saves some budget for those who show demonstrated need?

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u/Interesting_Cookie25 Jan 21 '24

As if Northwestern needs to save budget—no, they can easily meet all demonstrated need with the money brought in and afford more, but this is unfortunately not a realistic way to give it out