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'''Merit Scholarships''' are tuition payments, typically for [[college]], that [[reward]] a [[student]] for [[academic]] achievement, usually based on [[College Board]] exams.

'''Merit Scholarships''' are tuition payments, typically for [[college]], that [[reward]] a [[student]] for [[academic]] achievement, usually based on [[College Board]] exams.

 

These differ from other scholarships that are "need-based" or liberal scholarships given out on the basis of race, gender, "overcoming" sexuality, or "quirkiness" such as being left-handed or being a high school student that can be shaped into an atheistic [[Ayn Rand]] or J.D. Salinger scholar or a liberal like [[David Letterman]]<ref>http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/unusual.phtml</ref>.

These differ from other scholarships that are "need-based" or liberal scholarships given out on the basis of race, gender, "overcoming" sexuality, or "quirk" such as being left-handed or being a high school student that can be shaped into an atheistic [[Ayn Rand]] or J.D. Salinger scholar or a liberal like [[David Letterman]]<ref>http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/unusual.phtml</ref>.

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