Originally Posted by Quantum2003
What are your thoughts?
Ok -- where's the money smile? The main scholarship sources I know of are
(1) National Merit
(2) full and partial scholarships awarded by colleges (sometimes to National Merit finalists)
(3) state-based scholarships, such as Georgia's Hope Scholarship.
(4) sports scholarships
(5) ROTC

If lots of students in your town are getting scholarships from sources other than these, I'd be interested to hear about them. It is cynical but not incorrect to observe that many merit scholarships and financial aid plans offered by colleges could also be described as price discrimination.

If my children get scholarships, great, but I know that the amount of merit scholarship money available to students at the most selective colleges is pretty meager.