Bihar: In the state capital, Patna, 27 students from "Super 30" a group of merit students from extremely poor families, have cracked the entrance exam of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology or I.I.T. (Hindustan Times).
Of late, they have even been championing automated grading software that can evaluate the merits of students' essays with a click of a mouse.
For Ivy League schools, which offer aid based only on need and not merit, even students with superb grades might not be able to attend if they cannot pay.
"I certainly don't think this is worthy of federal intervention or former-governor intervention, but I do think on the merits the student that won, won.
Students are also admitted through a management quota, which places no merit requirement; students are directly admitted to a course upon the orders of the college management (in this case, the managing trust).
In addition, it has the merit that students are able to recognize their own taste sensitivity.
Haunted for 15 years by the brutal death of her enigmatic college roommate — a merit scholarship student named Minette Swift, the title's black girl — Genna embarks on what she calls a "text without a title in the service of justice," a personal "inquiry" in which she attempts to reconstruct the events of the fateful year when she and Minette were freshmen.
I painted through college and was a Merit Scholarship student at the Art Students League in NYC.
Most universities will offer a financial aid package upon admission which is a combination of scholarships from the university (need and merit), federal student aid programs, and state aid programs.
Ms. Sawyer said her museum is "agnostic by design" about the relative merits of bringing students to the museum or taking the museum to students.
