Applying to Umich as a Business Major?

jazzshreddermom
Mon, 04 May 2015 23:27:18 +0000

My son is a Ross pre-admit who got that news as early as it was given, March 13. As he had been offered them from other schools, we were curious about merit scholarships and after much inquiry, learned that Ross pre-admits are in a merit award “black hole”:

LSA will not give pre-admits merit awards because they will not be getting a degree in LSA, and Ross merit awards don’t begin until sophomore year. We were then told by someone very directly involved that Ross is aware of this “problem” (only a problem in so far as Ross pre-admits are ostensibly very valued students that they would clearly want to have commit to Michigan… and yet upon acceptance, they are offered nothing). He said they would be addressing and fixing this “catch 22” in the future, but unfortunately not in time for my son.

Still, my son turned down merit awards at other schools to commit to UM.