For those who have received the Banneker/Key notification, can you say whether or not you had first submitted your LLP preferences for Honors College and, if so, how long between your preference submission and your scholarship notification? Thanks.
@ipayyoustudy My DD has not submitted her LLP preferences yet. This is totally separate from the scholarship notification.
Does anyone know when financial aid information is coming?
Does anyone know if you can still get merit aid if you are not in honors program or honors college?
Good question… Anyone know about merit scholarship if not admitted to honors?
Yes, if it’s not in this thread, it’s in others. Students not in Honors have gotten different merit scholarships at UMD. In the past, the university has sent notification of these awards at the end of February.
Thanks, do you get an email when financial information is available?
Does anyone know whether there is a Facebook group for UMD (admitted students)?
@smittal13 - Do a Facebook search for University of Maryland Class of 2024 (official). I cannot post the link
@SoofDad Thanks! I found it.
@xytimes3 … My son was invited to Carillon but he didn’t feel like any of the options were a fit for his personality or interests… So he did not fill out the inventory.
@droppinknowledge Merit Scholarships tend to be awarded based on (1)SAT/ACT, (2)Rigor of Curriculum, (3)GPA, EC, Essay. Invitations to Honors tend to be based on (1) Wide selection of rigorous AP and Advanced classes. (2) WGPA (3) SAT/ACT. So natually the vast majority of merit scholarships will go to Honors students. I know several students who had >1500 SAT scores but concentrated their advanced studies in just one field and were not invited to Honors but did receive merit aid. Keep in mind:
Banneker Key - only Honors Students eligible up to Full Ride
Presidents - All In State and OOS students elligible 8K-50K over 4 years
Deans - Only In State students $1,500 - $9K spread out over 1st and 2nd year.
Does everyone get notified of merit scholarships at the same time? Does UMD send an email stating check the coalition?
Merit notifications went out on the last Friday of February in 2019. I assume it will go out next Friday for this year.
After reading last year’s forum, I don’t expect UMD will give us much. It seems the holistic approach extends to a point that no one understands. :neutral:
@thentt… Is >1500 the general criteria for whether you get aid or not?
@FRDad No absolutely not. From UMD (Presidents and Deans Scholarship) “Recipients are identified through evaluation of admission application materials including academic achievement, extracurricular activities, awards, honors, and an essay.” But certainly SAT score >1500 and ACT scores >34 put you at the 98% of high school seniors.
@FRDad Although UMD, like most schools, claim they apply a ‘holisitc’ approach to admissions and merit aid, in reality there is often a hard cutoff for such decisions. For the incoming Fall 2018 class, almost all students who received the President’s Scholarship had a 34 or higher Act. Dean’s list Scholarship’s were for those who had a 33 Act. I was unaware of any students who received less than a 33 ACT who received either of these scholarships. Not every accepted student who earned these scores received merit aid. There’s obviously a holistic factor involved in the decision-making (GPA, extra-curriculars) but ultimately there are hard cut-off’s involved in the decision process. These stats were for in-state students but I found the numbers were less consistent for out of state students. I also assume these numbers may vary from year to year. Also there will be a smaller number of departmental and college scholarships offered, probably at some point in March.
Good luck- notification should be out within the week.
@FRDad @cu1986 I think CU1986’s assessment is pretty accurate based on the admitted students I know. I do think GPA and WGPA weigh in as a second criteria. For example 2018 student in state, 1520SAT/33.5ACT, 3.97GPA/4.7WGPA = Max Presidents $5,000x4. Compared to in state 1520, 3.8/4.3 = Dean’s $4,500x2.
UMD’s 26 factors for admission may be of interest to some. (you can google) It is their official statement on admissions criteria. Of course each individual criteria probably carries a a different weight.
@thentt … do you have any past stats for OOS?