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Analysis built only on the colleges' own published merit grids — the same verified dataset behind the calculator.
- What a 3.5 GPA Is Actually Worth in Merit Money
- The 97 Colleges That Guarantee Merit Scholarships
- Guaranteed vs. Automatic Consideration: The Difference Is the Money
- How to Read a Merit Grid Without Getting Burned
- The Renewal GPA Trap: Merit Money You Have to Keep Earning
- What Two More ACT Points Are Worth: $56,000
- Automatic Full-Ride Scholarships: What the Published Grids Actually Show
- Merit Scholarship Appeals: How They Work and When to Ask
- The Junior-Year Merit Timeline: When the Money Is Decided
- The Biggest Automatic Merit Awards in America (From the Colleges' Own Grids)
- Why Most Colleges Publish No Merit Grid (2,117 of 2,432 Checked)
- Merit Scholarships Without Test Scores: 232 Colleges That Use GPA Alone
How to read this page: figures come only from the college's own published pages. Class A = guaranteed automatic (the college publishes the promise). Class B = automatic consideration — amount not guaranteed. Every figure links to its official source with a verification date. Full methodology →
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