Your student's grades are already worth real money. See exactly how much — in writing.

Coverage, counted live from the dataset

96 of the 304 listed colleges publish guaranteed automatic awards; the other 208 automatically consider students without promising an amount. Every college was checked against the nationwide census (2021 of 2,432 colleges checked so far), and every one of the 1475 award rows was verified against the college's own published page.

States covered: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. The census is still running — a college that is not listed yet has not necessarily been checked, and absence never means "no merit exists there." How the census and classes work →

One worked example, from real published data

Guaranteed vs. consideration — the distinction this site is built on

Sample colleges from the dataset

How it works

Colleges in the calculator

How we verify this data →

Colleges that do not publish an automatic grid

These colleges award merit money but do not publish an automatic merit grid, so they are not in the calculator and no exact awards are shown for them. Each page explains how merit actually works there, from the college's own official text.

• Florida Atlantic University — Boca Raton, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• Florida Gulf Coast University — Fort Myers, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• Florida International University — Miami, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• University of Central Florida — Orlando, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• University of Florida — Gainesville, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here
• University of South Florida — Tampa, FL No published automatic grid — how merit works here

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Frequently asked questions

What is a guaranteed automatic merit scholarship?

An award a college grants when an admitted student meets the GPA and/or test thresholds in its published merit grid — and the college's own page explicitly says the award is automatic on meeting them. Only those awards are labelled guaranteed here. Admission, deadlines, and renewal conditions still apply.

What does "automatically considered — not guaranteed" mean?

The college automatically considers admitted students for merit money, but does not promise an amount. We show the college's published figures as possible awards in a separate, clearly labelled section — never as guaranteed money.

If a grid lists both SAT and ACT, do I need both?

No. In this calculator — and in the published grids we encode — meeting either threshold counts.

My student's GPA is on a 100-point scale. Can we use the calculator?

Yes — choose "100-point scale" next to the GPA field. Some colleges publish their merit grids on a 100-point scale (thresholds like 89–96). Those awards are recorded exactly as published and only match a GPA entered on the 100-point scale. We never convert a GPA between scales, in either direction.

Why is a college I expected not listed?

We only put a college in the calculator when it publishes merit criteria we have verified, classed as guaranteed automatic or automatic consideration. Many excellent colleges use competitive or holistic merit instead; some Florida colleges publish no automatic grid at all and get an explainer page rather than calculator results. Absence from the calculator does not mean no merit exists there.