contacting financial aid/admissions counselors

ginab591
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:50:39 +0000

What a lot of people seem to not understand on this site, but what clearly seems to be the trend is:
Admission to UMD is very numbers driven. SATs, GPAs, IS/OOS, etc.

Scholarship money is in no way numbers based. The scholarship money goes to people they are impressed with, not necessarily the people who have good numbers, with high SATs, GPAs etc. They look at the people themselves.
Did this kid go to a top high school, have well-off parents pay for
any and every thing that could give the kid an upperhand and they end up with high numbers and acheivements gained mostly through their connections? Maybe they’re not as impressive as a kid with slightly lower numbers, who made their own opportunities, or did something different than the norm, or had a lower slightly GPA because of other factors.
Scholarships seem to go to kids who either a) did the best they could with what they had or b) have parents who know someone

Basically, they admit a GPA and an SAT score. They give a scholarship to a real person.