Your second thread is incorrect. The Tappan and presidential scholarship are not need based because neither of us submitted out CSS and on the website it declares those scholarships as merit based.
If you are admitted/rejected do you get an email notification about it or do you just have to check Wolverine Access. If you just have to check the portal where would it say the decision?
“I also got the Tappan Scholarship for $25K! Combined with my low EFC, I think I don’t have to pay anything–they gave me grants up to the $57K sticker price.”
So I would consider giving a OSS student a grant as being more generous than giving a ISS a Fed. loan and work study. I also would guess that this student(if true) that you linked to would have a EFC of zero because the outside scholarships that my son will receive will come right off his aid award starting with the loan and working through the work study.
@alithegator Well that’s interesting because, a) it is administered by the Office of Financial Aid, not the admissions office, and b) in an Office of Financial Aid publication, both the Tappan and the Presidential appear on a list entitled 2016-2017 Major Financial Aid Programs. Page 21 in this document: http://finaid.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/ReqRead1617.pdf