I was pleasantly surprised when the summer before my daughter started as a freshman she received a letter awarding her a $1000 one time scholarship from her college within UMD. Then at orientation I paid close attention during a session with her specific college where they discussed the availability of college and department level scholarships for sophomores and above. I made sure my daughter applied this spring and she just got a letter to tell her she was awarded a $2000 one time scholarship for her sophomore year.
I’m curious how large these college or departmental level scholarships can be, whether any of them are multi-year awards and the percentage of students who submit an app that receive one.
My guess is that these are probably smaller awards and may not be big enough to swing Maryland from being unaffordable to being affordable for a student with a funding gap. But it’s hard to know for sure without some more data points.