My daughter received an email about her merit scholarship yesterday. It also shows up on Coalition. I’m guessing it is also reflected in her financial aid offer, but I have not looked at it yet.
If you applied EA, I believe UMD stated that they would notify you about merit scholarships by March 1.
Do you mind saying how you find the scholarship info on coalition? My kid sees Admission Letter and that’s it. She did get e-mail about $50,000 Presidential scholarship spread over 4 years. But we can’t locate it on Coalition.
I don’t have access to her Coalition account right now, but if I remember correctly, it was the last entry on her “checklist.” Something like, Merit Scholarship, $12,500.
Glad to hear that your daughter also got the $50k President’s Scholarship.
Thank you! I am happy for both of our kids!
…Indeed, it is in the “check list”. Wow. Who designed this user interface??? How logical…
My daughter’s financial aid summary (the page with cost of attendance, scholarships, grants, loans, etc) is full of nothing but big fat ZERO’s, including total COA. I found another page that says “A package of awards has not yet been created for you for the 2020-2021 award year”. I’m assuming that means that her file hasn’t been evaluated for scholarships yet? Do any of your children have nothing listed also?
yes me too!! Everything says 0
Yes I only got an award that lost loans. Doesn’t seem accurate to me being that my gpa is a 3.6 and my efc is below 6,000
I called the Office of Admissions early today to ask if all merit $ had been awarded or if more was still to come by the 3/1 deadline. My D also has no emails, no $ listed anywhere, etc. There were 21 calls ahead of me and an hour backup. Ha. I put in my phone number for a callback and have heard nothing. I will try again tomorrow. 
Did anyone else get into the life sciences scholars program? (the email was in my junk folder)
@seniorssenoir, it says on my checklist thats that my LLP. never received an email though.
Does anyone know someone who got into Clark RD? I starting to feel as though it’s highly unlikely.
Did yor apply to one of the communities? My daughter was accepted into Once and Future Planet. I would love to find other accepted students who are in this community.
@ChiMom191 @zahriana @LiveLoveLaughRN Be sure to log into UMD student financial aid portal and check the “to do list”. They are probably waiting for documents.
@ash980123 My son was accepted to Clark Engineering. What is Clark RD?
Clark RD refers to regular decision. Most students get in via early decision. It’s just the timing of when they applied.
In-State, 4.0 UW/ 4.89 W, 5’s on AP Calc AB, Physics 1, Music Theory, 1440 SAT / 33 ACT, accepted for both music performance and engineering, no institutional merit scholarships, 10k/year renewable scholarship for music.
I was really hoping for a separate merit scholarship for academics rather than solely music (graduating in 5 years due to workload)
Hello,
my child was accepted directly into Clark, 1490 SAT, 3.7/4.45 gpa, lots of extracarricular - varsity hockey, piano at main venues, worked at camp. I was unpleasantly surprised that he did not get any merit scholarship - $0. What are they looking for?
It is a living-learning program that will provide you with a remarkable opportunity to engage with other first-year students who wish to turn their curiosity into action. This was on my DD acceptance letter
Adding my daughter’s info here to provide some insight to prospective class of 2025 students when they are searching for schools that give good merit aid. My D20 declined her acceptance to UMD yesterday. She had been accepted to the Honors Program, ACES LLC, Computer Science Dept but received only $5k per year via Presidential Scholarship. She received WAY more money from both Pitt and Northeastern, Honors College and CS at both, so now it’s just a decision between 8 or 2 hours from home. Her stats were 35 ACT, 4.1 WGPA, 9APs with 4s and 5s on all tests taken so far Lots of ECs including co-leader of her schools Women in STEM program, member of audition a paella choir, and dance captain for the musical. Worked 15 hours per week as a hostess at a restaurant since the beginning of her Junior Year. Good luck to all who will be Terps in the fall!
UMD is a bit cruel in how they run their admissions process. Last month we were thrilled when my OOS son got accepted into the CS program. Very selective and lots of people with great stats did not get in. So we felt extremely grateful. One month later we get a letter that says he was one of the only 25% of accepted students to receive a President’s Award. Again, thrilled and grateful. Then the real news - it’s a 2k a year award. He may has well have received a rejection letter last month. That would have been way less painful. UMD is for Marylanders. If you live in that state you should be very grateful. The state schools in NJ are fine, but UMD is special place - especially their CS program. Oh well.