@CautiousOptimist Ha, I’ve also made a financial aid spreadsheet! It currently has fifteen columns because I’m crazy like that.
Yeah, I’ve got a financial aid spreadsheet with 4-year cost of attendance for my admitted schools (actually I need to add UIUC still) and also a post-college budget spreadsheet where I toy around with different costs of living, salaries, and other various expenses to see how quickly I could dump those seemingly inevitable loans.
I can only speak of last year, but I was accepted in December and got my Financial Aid award in late March. The NPC was spot on though it showed slight unmet need and in fact UM met 100% (OOS).
Have you heard anything? My D was deferred and is waiting for a final answer
Did anyone get engineering scholarships yet?
@ThaiGiraffe My D received the Geisenger Scholarship (OOS award that required separate application). Found out by snail mail today.
Do you all think there might be any impact from applying to honors to getting any of the scholarships? The thing is I’m probably not going to UMich unless I get a scholarship (and I don’t really think I’m even a contender…) and I… I’m kind of too lazy to write the essay for the honors program, especially knowing there’s a 99% chance I won’t be going 
Also, is it much harder to get into the honors program on the last deadline? The second deadline is coming up on the 24th.
S received a Geisinger Scholarship and we are wondering if this precludes him from being offered any other engineering scholarships such as the Stamps or Shipman. Does anyone know if it is possible for a student to be offered more than one scholarship?
@Porter098 did S receive the scholarship by snail mail? If so, which state do you reside in? And no receiving that scholarship will not exclude you from receiving others.
Stamps Scholarships are already awarded and I think they already invited Shipman too.
Are there any portal ‘hints’ that predict whether decisions are coming out soon?
@alithegator, notified by snail mail. @DAPIStained, are you talking about Stamps and Shipman notifications already being released for the College of Engineering? Thanks! Can anyone from CoE confirm they’ve been notified about Shipman?
@Porter098 I am not sure about CoE. DD got a notification of Stamps for LAS and the offer letter indicated that there are 18 incoming students got awarded and arranged college visit. I guess it means all the awards were offered at this point.
@tomatoes124 What does it say on your portal? My FA links do not exist.
Congrats to the Geisinger recipients. Still hoping I’ll get one in the mail in the next few days, but while OOS (obviously, since it’s OOS only) I’m only a few states away so I wouldn’t imagine it would take that long for it to get here… I didn’t expect one but was really hoping for it all the same.
Does anyone know if they notify non-winning applicants in any way, or is it just the cold shoulder? I just hate not knowing either way, and I’d rather be straight-up rejected than ignored, though I’d understand why they wouldn’t want to send a bunch of rejection letters as well.
@alithegator it has links to financial awards, accept/decline, summary, and a couple more. I can click on these and they lead to a page that says no access. Does this mean Anything?
@DAPIStained, congrats to your D on Stamps!!! That is wonderful and I’ve heard Stamps may even include housing. Can you confirm if that is true or not? The website says a total of 18 Stamps are awarded university wide, including 3 from the CoE so perhaps those few engineering students have also been notified according to what your D’s letter indicates. @CautiousOptimist, Geisinger letter just arrived yesterday so check again today. I don’t know if they send letters either way but it is possible considering it was a separate application process. I agree that it would be helpful to be notified either way. Best wishes to you for very good news!!
@Porter098 In the offer letter, U-M states that the scholarship will cover full COA plus 10K potential fund for personal enrichments during summer for internship, study/travel abroad, etc. They said 18 incoming students are awarded but they did not mention whether all the scholarships were awarded at that time in the letter. However, there is a 3 day scholarship meeting in early March and DD already scheduled the visit. So, my guess is the scholarships are mostly given. I am not sure what will happen if a student does not accept scholarship to attend another school.
Yeah, it just has links to financial award status, accept/decline, financial award summary, financial award notices, my scholarship profile. Does this mean anything? It stopped saying ‘under review’ under application status and doesn’t show anything but application credentials, application data.
Can someone answer me if possible?