<p>Can you only hear of merit-based scholarships once you accept their admission? I applied a while ago and I received something about a scholarship, but it indicated financial need was involved (of which i have none). Do i actually have to tell uMich i'm going there before i can hear about merit-based aid?</p>
<p>No commitment is needed; my son got a modest merit scholarship from one of the departments just a couple of weeks after his letter of acceptance from LSA.</p>
<p>Huh. wonder why i didnt get one of those :-(</p>
<p>I got a $9000 Award of Excellence scholarship. So far, its more expensive than U of Chicago for me, so unless I get a free ride or something Michigan won't be seeing me next fall.</p>
<p>Dressage, how is Michigan at $37,000 minus $9000 more expensive than Chicago? Did Chicago give you financial aid, but UM does not meet it?</p>
<p>Dressagechick, you must have neglected to say that Chicago gave you at least $14,000 in aid. Otheriwse, Michigan would be cheaper for you.</p>
<p>I know this is kind of off subject, but this is supposed to be an honors thread. Is it cool if i apply for honors just to get into South Quad and then ditch the program and keep my nice dorm?</p>
<p>lol why would you ditch the program?</p>
<p>I got in, got the bottle, got the award of excellence thing (up to 12000 or something depending on need) but unless they give me more merit money i cant go.</p>
<p>There are quite a few reasons to ditch the program from what I've heard. Basically I hear it's just a bunch of extra work for nothing. Someone posted on here a month or so ago telling his experience with the program and i thought it was very helpful giving an inside perspective. It turns out you can just take honors classes within your major and be fine, so I wasn't sure if i wanted to do the program or not.</p>
<p>does u mcih give presidential scholarships?? or do they not need to lol</p>
<p>does u mcih give presidential scholarships?? or do they not need to lol</p>
<p>My app was complete on Jan.15, I got accepted Feb.15, (out of state), but when I call them with questions about Merit scholarships and Honors program, why are they telling me it takes 6 weeks from acceptance. Everyone here seems to have heard back pretty soon after acceptance.</p>
<p>I have excellent stats. Is that a bad thing?</p>
<p>My S was accepted around Jan 28. We have also heard nothing on merit and he had excellent stats as well. I am as confused as you are. When I called, they said it could be 6-8 weeks until we hear anything (or nothing).</p>
<p>After acceptance, it took 2 weeks to hear about residential college, 4 weeks to get honor's info...</p>
<p>When i checked online, it seemed as though there were almost no scholarships/aid available with merit as its sole criterion. Sorry about the apparent bad news (I might have misinterpreted what I saw or missed many scholarships) but I'm just as bummed as you guys about it.</p>
<p>bearsfan,</p>
<p>as posted previously (but I guess now buried in the archives), there are a number of merit scholarships, LSA gives out 70 15k/yr:</p>
<p>Their website's a little confusing because some scholarships are sponsored by the University, some by the individual colleges, and they are documented in several locations. Search around, or try:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.finaid.umich.edu/media/p...lguidenew03.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.finaid.umich.edu/media/p...lguidenew03.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.finaid.umich.edu/Types_o...otherschols.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.finaid.umich.edu/Types_o...otherschols.asp</a>
<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/students/scholarships/new/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/students/scholarships/new/</a>
<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/parent...ships_freshmen/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/parent...ships_freshmen/</a>
<a href="http://www.engin.umich.edu/students...w_Students.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.engin.umich.edu/students...w_Students.html</a></p>
<p>However, somewhere in there it says for best consideration apply early; they may have made all their offers already. I don't know if they make additional offers if their "yield" is under expected.</p>
<p>I just lost interest in UM......</p>
<p>me too... better offers have come, including a school where all four years will be barely 10,000 combined.... so thats what im thinking now. ill wait till grad school for an expensive school.</p>
<p>Well I'll call just to see about that LSA scholarship, thanks for pointing that out. I guess that's what I'm after. I did apply back in like October/November and was accepted in November, so I don't think I turned it in too late for consideration. I figure there aren't too many people admitted to the honors college, and based on the stats i saw, i was above average for it, and i have pretty good EC's, so maybe I'm in the top 70???? Well i sure hope so. Thanks for the info guys.</p>
<p>hey...when do we get our notification for honors lsa? i just received my umich application, but have not yet received anything about honors lsa.</p>
<p>You can email them asking for them to consider it and it might go faster (that's what I did) and they had told me within a month of when i got accepted. And as for scholarships, I got stuff in the mail about the Award of Excellence Scholarship you guys are talking about but when my award notice came out via email I didn't get it. Does this mean I didn't get the LSA award either?</p>