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 63 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.
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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.
We started with colleges that publish a fixed, public scholarship chart — enter the GPA and score, read off the award — because those are the only ones where an amount can be shown without guessing. We add more as each grid is extracted and verified against the college's own published page.
Want the story behind these numbers? Our tutoring team at Test Prep Gurus wrote a family guide to 25 automatic scholarships based on SAT/ACT scores — which schools publish them, the score thresholds that matter, and how families use them to plan. And if a higher score would unlock a better tier here, our student results show what a focused prep program typically moves.