What merit scholarships fit your scores?
Enter your SAT or ACT, your unweighted GPA, and where you live. We surface every automatic merit award that lines up with your profile across 62 colleges — annual and 4-year dollar value, plus the score gains that would unlock more.
Your starting point
How matching works: a tier qualifies when your score meets its band, your GPA meets its floor, and your residency matches. We only sum automatic awards — those guaranteed by a published grid. Competitive scholarships (Stamps, Lincoln, McNair, etc.) are shown separately with no dollar totals attached. Schools that publish ranges instead of fixed cells are shown with a "ranges only" badge.
🌟 National scholarships
Apply directly — not tied to a college
These 13 test-or-merit-keyed awards are independent of any school — you apply directly to the sponsor and bring the money to whichever college you attend. We filter the list to ones that line up with your SAT/ACT/GPA above. Important: we intentionally exclude need-based and demographic-only awards — these are the ones where score and merit drive the dollar amount.
Sources are linked per row + curated as-of date. Application deadlines move year-to-year — confirm with the sponsor before relying on a date.
Important. Figures reflect each school's published automatic merit grid as of the date listed on the row, not a guarantee of award. Schools update grids annually; always confirm directly with the school's financial aid office before relying on a number. Schools that recalculate GPA on a different scale (weighted or core academic only) are flagged in the results.
The 14 phase-1 schools were selected because each publishes a deterministic, formula-based merit grid. Note: Arizona State University was originally on the phase-1 list but isn't in our colleges-table source (IPEDS test-score data); we substituted Texas Tech, which has the same automatic-grid pattern. We'll add more schools as their grids are extracted and verified.