501 colleges · every award dated and cited
One more ACT point is worth $2,000 or more a year at 124 colleges. What is yours worth?
At most public universities merit aid is a table, not a judgement call: this ACT, this GPA, that much money, printed on the school’s own site. Tables have steps. The only question that matters is how far your student is standing from the next one.
501
colleges
every award dated
213
where your ACT sets it
a point moves money
258
where GPA alone sets it
a point buys nothing
46
one point = $4,000+
a year, every year
3,537 award bands read
1,013 sources cited
48 states
Every figure carries the page it came from
and the date a human checked it.
Four questions, forty-five seconds
Your most recent score, or your best practice score if you have not sat it yet.
Unweighted, as the school asks for it.
What you get, in about a minute
- 1
The biggest step in front of you, free.
The school, the exact score that trips the next threshold, the award either side of it, and a link to the page we read it from. No email needed to see that part.
- 2
Then every other school it moves at.
Your two numbers run against all 501 published grids, ranked by what the step is worth per year. Nobody else holds this, and it is not on any school's own website.
- 3
Then what to do about it.
Which threshold to aim at, which of your schools it clears, how many ACT dates you have left, and whether a retake can only help you or has to beat your best day outright.
Three things this is not
- Not offers. These are published award schedules. The school’s financial aid office makes the award, and meeting a printed threshold is not the same as holding a letter.
- Not a guess. Every figure is quoted from the school’s own page and carries the date a human last checked it. Where a school states a benefit rather than a dollar amount — “Tuition” — we keep its wording instead of inventing a number.
- Not true everywhere. At 288 of these 501 colleges the ACT does not move merit money at all. Where that is true of a school in your file, your file says so rather than selling you a point that buys nothing.
Dataset last updated 2026-10-24. Browse all 501 schools.