Department Scholarships

<p>I know that UMD has told everyone that waves of scholarships will be sent out until 4/1, but for the Letters & Sciences department, are there also scholarships for that department as well?</p>

<p>It doesn’t look like it. Looking at the umd website, there are references to two scholarships awarded to rising sophomores, but there don’t appear to be any merit aid for incoming freshmen. As I pointed out in another thread, for CMPS (soon to be CMNS), most of their scholarships are for returning students. Anecdotally, it has seemed that the Engineering School has the most merit awards for incoming students on a department basis.</p>

<p>I talked to the engineering department today and they told me there are very, very few scholarships for incoming freshman. They told me most donors want their scholarships going to students that have demonstrated academic achievement at the University level.</p>

<p>any idea when the department scholarships will go out?</p>

<p>Yes, that’s what CMPS/CMNS feels too.</p>

<p>You’ll find that not long into your freshman year, what you did in h.s. is no longer looked at…all based on your college performance, etc… That’s why it is so important to go out of your way to get to know your professors and be actively involved in their classes…</p>

<p>Dept scholarships will be sent out by April 1</p>