Yes and no. I did get merit scholarships, and I worked hard for those, but the big thing was that I got free tuition because my mom worked as a professor there. It was part of her original contract at the university. By the time I was of college age, they were no longer offering that to the children of employees because so many people go to college now; in the seventies when she started they didn't. But they had to honor the terms of her contract. So I really lucked out.