<p>CMNS is not a big source of scholarship money, especially for incoming freshmen. Additional funds are available after freshman year. Go to the UMD site and search for department scholarships. I’m afraid that outside the B/K, there are few, if any, ways to get the tuition covered, especially for OOS students. Your $12 K presidential award is probably the best you’ll be able to do, with also the NMSF money.</p>
<p>If you can swing it, my D can vouch for the quality of the program and the opportunities at UMD. (And keep in mind that your grad school will most likely be funded in astrophysics…that may help in your financial decisions knowing that you don’t have something like the cost of med schools in your future). Feel free to PM me. D1 is a first-year Ph.D. student at Harvard now, and is loving it. (and is doing as well, or better than her peers, thus confirming our belief that she got a great education at UMD and through her opportunities there)… Good luck.</p>
<p>Yodelo, in the past engineering department scholarships have been much higher than any other department for incoming freshmen…</p>