
This goes into the list if mea culpa moments for Shreya and me. Most of the schools we were looking at actually never ever offered merit scholarships, darn what were we thinking? To put this bluntly expect to pay $300,000 out of your pocket or in loans if you are going to these schools. The list of colleges NOT offering merit scholarships include many of the most well-known in the United States.The list is an ever changing target, but here is a sample list below complied by Dr. Barbara Austin, PhD:
- Amherst College
- Dartmouth College
- Reed College
- Bernard College
- Goddard College
- Saint John’s College
- Bates College
- Hamilton College
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Bennington College
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- Bowdoin College
- Haverford College
- Swarthmore College
- Brown University
- Julliard College
- Trinity College, CT
- Bryn Mawr College
- Marlboro College
- University of Pennsylvania
- Bucknell University
- MIT
- Vassar College
- Colby College
- Middlebury College
- Wellesley College
- Colgate University
- Mount Holyoke College
- Wheaton College, MA
- Columbia University
- New England College
- Williams College
- Connecticut College
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- Cornell University
- Reed College
You can read more details on the schools and their thinking here https://capstonewealthpartners.com/colleges-that-dont-offer-merit-scholarships/