We are IS. Just curious what stats your kid had that was accepted with either merit only award or Honors in the last couple of years.
We are crossing our fingers for honors and or merit.
The following video has the average Honors College and B/K Award statistics at about the 19 minute and 20 second mark
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Am I correct that IS stats can be lower end and OOS should be higher? Or does school not distinguish btw iS and OOS for honors?
UMD does not provide any IS/OOS breakdown.
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Usually publics give more merit to oos students as a bribe to get higher stat students to attend instead of their less expensive flagships. My kids were offered up to $22,000 from oos publics vs. $0 from ours. OOS public’s are expensive without merit.
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Thank you so much!
Only 20% of accepted applicant will get some form of merit award. They don’t have to be in Honors.
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My older kid received OOS Scholarships too but the net price for UMD was still better without any money compared to UDEL, UMASS etc.
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My oos student got into all of those a few years ago, $15,000 from UDel, $16,000 from UMASS, $3000 from UMD.
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Just for clarification we are IS for UMD, so my comparison is IS UMD vs OOS UMASS and UDEL. I can’t remember how much my older one received from UMASS and UDEL, but I felt it was generous.
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I missed that you were in state. Even at a high in state cost with no merit, Rutgers was still hard to beat at oos public’s with merit.
My oldest D. received 5K scholarship a year from UMD and invited to Honors (ILS) with 4.80-ish WGPA and 36 ACT. She received several large scholarships from other OOS schools but still more expensive than UMD.
My youngest , who applied this year, received about the same amount of merit aids, including UofDel, who offered 64K. for 4 years.
We are instate for UMD and most likely will send her there, since ít is a very good school, closer to home and cheapest. 
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Writing this in case folks are looking next year. We were told my admissions they stack you by high school so if you attend a competitive high school it’s harder.
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