I really want to go to Michigan but 57K is so much… I was accepted to LSA early action and just checked my financial aid info right now and I wasn’t offered anything, so is UM worth it? My parents can afford it but I feel bad making them pay a lot for undergrad and grad
@ohio101 same predicament here. I was accepted EA OOS for CoE and after touring many times I’ve found the school to be awesome. After checking FA I found that I have been offered nothing but the generic loans. I might be able to afford it, but it would be really unfair to put that burden on my parents. I’m about to move on from Mich if I don’t get any last minute aid because frankly, I was accepted to schools just as good (if not better) for a lower price and even though it hurts to know that I probably can’t/won’t go to Mich, it’s important to note your financial situation above all else.
Last year I got into UVA, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Boston College, and a few others and I was denied to Michigan with a 34 ACT and a 2020 SAT with excellent letters, essays, and everything. They deferred me EA and denied me at the end of March. It was my number 1 choice and I wrote letters saying so. They just ignored me. But the admissions counselors have quotas and I think it was met at my hs so they did’t need me. Or maybe the admissions person did not connect to my application. I was crushed but ended up somewhere I know is a better fit with the same possibly a better education. Things happen for a reason and you will all be ok if you do not get in. Just have a second choice in your brain. Good luck!
Well UCB and UCLA are both amazing schools.
They are and it was a difficult decision but I chose UCLA and you would be surprised a lot of kids chose UCLA over UB for all different reasons. But, they are both really cool. I liked them equally, so some people say I made the wrong choice, but I know I made a good choice because I am very comfortable here and I love my classes. I think I would have been happy at UB too. The professors are excellent!!! You will get in somewhere you like.
@ohio101 @infiniteCircle Same here. Mich is basically my top choice and I only got the generic government loans-no aid essentially. We would have to loan almost the full tuition and I don’t know if it is worth taking on all that debt just to go to the school I would prefer to go to. It makes me so sad that I was fortunate enough to be accepted but that I might not be able to afford to go in the end.
@NICE8x Yeah I know how difficult it is to get in OOS CoE and I feel bad for likely discarding it. But I’m in at Georgia Tech and UIUC so far which are both considerably cheaper.
@NICE8x You have posted elsewhere that your family has assets, which is no doubt why you didn’t get grants. It has nothing to do with being OOS. Michigan DOES give grants to OOS students who show “demonstrated need”. Alas, this isn’t the same as how much you think you can pay. In any event, congrats on getting in elsewhere.
@calraterboi FYI, starting this year California legislators have prohibited UC from offering financial aid to OOS students. So you really cannot lambast Michigan, especially since it does still grant large amounts of financial aid to OOS students. As for quotas, last year over 50% of admitted students were OOS. That’s a pretty high quota!
About how many applicants got accepted/rejected already?I am afraid that the later the decisions are, more waitlist/deny there will be. Sigh!
I found an interesting statistic on collegedata.com last night. For the year 2015 admittance, 12,631 were wait listed, 4,457 accepted the wait list, 91 were actually admitted from wait list.
Reading last year’s thread, the next batch (end of March?) would most likely be the last batch. And things didn’t look great last year, a lot of rejection and wait list. There were only a few acceptances. Of course, that’s just postings from cc community. But we can only pray that this year is different! Let’s hope there will be plenty of acceptances!
@sadovaya I’m not blaming Michigan and I’m not trying to come off as obnoxious. I was just sharing with others on different threads. I can’t control what town I live in and the house my parents bought, so what the government says is my need and what we can actually afford does differ. I know all other schools will offer the same need based aid, but I’m hoping others will offer some merit aid. Some schools also promise to do all grants and no loans to cover need based aid. Many people in my town are facing this struggle. The gov. says we don’t need much aid but it’s more expensive to live where we do than other places in the country.
Is it still possible to get merit scholarships for LSA? I was accepted early action OOS and am top 4% of class with ECs and leadership but I only got a 32 on ACT… Would I qualify for any merit scholarships?
I have looked at scholarships on LSA’s webpage but it wasn’t very helpful, as there was no set criteria, and I didn’t receive financial aid.
Was told by admissions there were over 60,000 applicants this year. Most competitive class ever.
@ohio101 At this point, merit aid isn’t that likely. I’d also add that merit aid is rarely that substantial and isn’t intended to replace need based aid. Best to plan accordingly.
@NICE8x You might be well advised to reapply next year to universities that do not take equity into consideration. There are some that don’t. I wouldn’t count on merit aid to be that substantial.
@ohio101 Fast forward four years. Think in terms of a quarter of a million dollars of debt, and a possible major/minor change due to an extremely rigorous curriculum. You have obtained a degree that may not net the cash that you thought - even though it’s a Michigan diploma. Think this through and You will have your answer.
Does anyone know about decision notifications for LSA Honors? The website says that decisions will be released /by/ March 17th — not sure if they send out random batches before or on that date, or if they release all of them at once on the 17th.
Who did u hear that from @UMichigan2016