<p>My daughter was recently accepted to UMD and invited to the honors program. Given we are OOS, we are hoping for some merit $$. Was just wondering if anyone would care to comment on her chances for the BK scholarship.</p>
<p>Major: Dietetics
gpa: 3.91 wgpa 4.93
Rank: 40/590
School: Public - highly competitive magnet, ranked very high nationally
SAT I: CR 750, M 680, W 710 - 2140
ACT: Eng 34, M 33, R 36, S 34, Comp 34
AP's:World Hist 5;US Hist 5;Engl Lang 3; Calc AB 2; Psych 5; Env Sci 5
AP's this year, test not taken yet: Biology, Statistics, Eng IV, Spanish Lang
IB: Psychology SL 6; Environ Sys SL 5
IB's this year: English HL; History HL; Math SL; Spanish HL
SAT II's: none submitted but Math 650; US History 730; Eng Lit 710</p>
<p>EC's
National Honor Society 11,12 Community Service Head (11)
Math Club - Secretary
Key Club 9, 10
Track & Field Varsity all four years
Indoor Track Varsity all four years
Italian Clulb - Secretary
hundreds of hours of community service with Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity, JDRF
JDRF Team Captain for 2008 Walk to Cure
Golden Sneaker Award from JDRF for 2007 & 2008
Summer programs in Spain & Ecuador as well as community service there</p>
<p>I think her essays were great. Never saw her recommendations but she is well liked
by all her teachers, so I am sure they were good. Her teachers are very accustomed to
writing letters.</p>
<p>Only one thing I see missing is she was never a President of a club. She ran for
President of Honor Society and came in second. Mostly because the honor society
at her school meets at 6:45am and because she is an IB student, she has a Theory of
Knowledge class then. So, even though she was the best community service head ever
because she really had no face time with the members, she lost out. Lesson in choices
I suppose.</p>
<p>Anyway, would love to hear what ya'll think</p>
<p>^^ re: your daughter, I'd say she stands an excellent shot at merit money but may or may not get invited for the B/K interview. As excellent as her accomplishments are she will be competing against kids with near perfect Math and CR scores, UW 4.0s and lots of AP 5s. This year, in particular, may be even more competitive because of the economy. I remember hearing last year that 1550 was sort of run of the mill for B/K candidates. Amazing, isn't it? </p>
<p>Your D sounds like an outstanding kid. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks maximus. That is about what I figured.</p>
<p>As good as I may think she is, and I do. haha I know there are many out there that are better. Heck, there are 39 of them alone at her school. I was just telling her yesterday how thrilled I was with her straight A's in her 6 AP/IB classes and that it should help her rank. She said no, it would probably go down because there were plenty of others taking 7 AP classes at her school this year and they most likely got all A's too.</p>
<p>I pitty what it will be like for my grandkids.</p>
<p>So DS received the snail mail acceptance with Honors information, etc. There is no mention about the B/K scholarship in this letter. Does the invitation come separately or would it have come in this letter?</p>
<p>It comes separately. The B/K comes out in the third week of June. Most people last year got it Feb 23rd. Log in online and you can find out whether or not they were accepted into Gemstone/HH. My letter didnt mention it but when i logged on it told me i was accepted.</p>
<p>Yes the BK comes by invitation. I know we all believe our children are the best, esp. when they are invited to Honors or Gemstone, but I think if you want to use a gauge to see if they are BK, look at what the other colleges they applied to. I.E. Duke, UMich (OOS), UPenn, Columbia. Accepted there and then you have a good chance of being invited. If they were reach colleges than probably not.</p>
<p>She will def get merit. She might be invited to BK, but I am just not sure that she will make the final cut. I believe they say that there are 400 BK students (and there are 2 types given). Thus, that is stiff competition, again look at what ivies are accepting them as your gauge because that is what UMD BK kids are...they are the ones that turned down Duke, Columbia, Stanford etc. and accepted the BK. I know of a certain parent that their child had a hard time deciding UMD BK or Duke...they chose UMD and if asked I bet one reason was because of the free ride. That is a very appealing thing for many, esp OOS...IVY with little merit or a nationally ranked college in an honors program with a free ride.</p>
<p>Thank you for many insights. You seem to be very active. When you say 400 BK students, are you including all students or just incoming students? Thank you.</p>
<p>Pima - I assume you were responding to my post.</p>
<p>Thanks, I know my D is kind of a long shot for the BK, but probably that is the only way we could swing UMD. With only $8,000/year it is still so expensive for OOS. Hard thing is she really is excited by the possibility and of course, we like the thought because it is only a 5 hour drive from home. But she has full tuition offers from several other schools already, so I think it would be economically irresponsible to turn one of them down to take an $8,000 offer from UMD. But we will worry about that when everything is on the table. We are still hopeful for an acceptance to Cornell.</p>
<p>Say hey to Bullet. Hope he is liking that new job of his. Probably not quite as exciting as flying every day, but you can't fly forever, right?</p>
<p>They do offer the Terp plan, which allows you to spread it over the cost of 8-10 pmts. I know how you feel, DS got big time money from the others, but between ROTC and his merit it was okay for us.</p>
<p>Bullet is fine, it's different, but since he is on the F-35 program he at least feels like he is still in the fighter world.</p>
<p>How you calculate the W-GPA for the current 12th grade student?
Does UMCP actually check the 1st semaster or only 1st quarter grade to review the 12th grade student for scholarship?</p>
<p>They actually check 1st semester grades when it comes to scholarship, or they did last yr. Typically, you won't know it unless you are on good terms with your gc. They contact them directly, same with your final grades.</p>
<p>You calculate the Weight the exact same way as you would if it was a final grade.</p>
<p>I would think you will definetely a finalist, but nobody can tell you what this yrs applicants look like. The economy and stock market has hurt a lot of families, some that would have gone OOS or private may be re-evaluating the programs and accepting.</p>
<p>Thanks "bulletandpima".. are you a current student of UMCP?
If I have a SAT 2100 (800M, 600R) and WGPA 4.6 vs SAT 2200 (800M, 700R) but WGPA 4.4
which one has more chance to get Merit?</p>
<p>Based on the stat I have submitted. Do I have a chance to get into the President award for 4 years?</p>
<p>I told myself I wouldn't cave, but do you think I could get B/K with:</p>
<p>White male
UMCP Honors
2190 SAT (670CR, 740M, 780WR)
640 Chem, 740 Math I, 700 Span
3.66UW 3.99W
6 AP's total
Eagle Scout
National Merit Commended Student</p>
<p>?
I can't make my mind up if I don't know what type of aid I'm going to get. It's going to be really hard to pay for school unless I can get at least 70% in scholarships.</p>
<p>icylava thing on the BK scholarship though is that only a very small % of the recipients get the full ride and the rest get $8000. $8000 doesn't put much of a dent in the OOS tuition. I don't know where I saw it, but for some reason I seem to recall that there are only about 12 full ride BK awarded. Someone else here probably knows the exact number better than I do.</p>