<p>For out of staters, is the Banner/Key scholarship the only way to get a merit full tuition at UMD?
Asking because while my kid's stats are good, she doesn't have "wow factor" extra-curriculars or awards (she has okay EC's).
I see they have the Presidents Scholarships but that ranges from $2K to $12K and OOS tuition is at least $29K.</p>
<p>I’m out-of-state as well. Yes, it’s the only full tuition scholarship they offer. The B/K scholarship can either be full or half, depending on how interviews go. </p>
<p>The Presidential Scholarship is quite unpredictable… I was accepted into the Honors College, yet I only got $2K. </p>
<p>Am I right that the B/K scholars tend to be the ones with a lot of community service or outside competition awards?</p>
<p>@scholarme, not necessarily. My son was awarded partial B/K, and while he did have great stats, he did not have much in the way of community service and nothing that would be considered a regional/national competition award. But maybe the kids who did were the ones who got the full ride…</p>
<p>Thanks @itllbeok ! And congrats to your son!
I’m wondering if it’s worth it for her to apply; that makes me lean towards yes.
(Trying to get her college list to a manageable size and I am sort of torn between suggesting she add either UMD or UMBC)</p>
<p>What’s your daughter’s major? I would definitely apply to UMD, although I might be being biased… </p>
<p>She’s planning to apply Engineering-undecided, but she may shift to an applied Math major or even a Math/Business type program. It’s taking her a while to figure out what she wants.
That’s one of the things inclining me to suggest UMD to her because it’s big and both its engineering & business are highly ranked.</p>
<p>Not only good in engineering and business, but it offers programs that allow engineering and business students to work together…</p>
<p>Does UMD have double or cross majors or major Eng minor Business types programs?</p>
<p>Umm not exactly cross majors… but look at QUEST Honors Fellows <a href=“http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs/academics/fellows-special-programs/quest/what-quest”>http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs/academics/fellows-special-programs/quest/what-quest</a> which is a 3 year very competitive program that you apply to during your freshman year. It has business, engineering and CMNS students collaborating on team projects to solve problems with each lending their own perspective/area of expertise to attack a problem - they get training that leads up to a pairing with an actual company to attempt to solve a problem that company is experiencing - a guaranteed internship of sorts that builds great connections/networks and oftentimes leads directly to jobs…</p>
<p>and Hinman CEO’s <a href=“http://www.hinmanceos.umd.edu/”>http://www.hinmanceos.umd.edu/</a> which is a 2 year living-learning program that teaches entrepreneurship to students from all majors (also very competitive) with a passion for startups.</p>
<p>The quest program looks very interesting! Thanks!</p>
<p>The Hinman program is equally interesting and rewarding …I just didn’t give as much detail because seems more self-explanatory…</p>
<p>I will tell the kid about both when I have to explain why added UMD to her apply list. :)</p>
<p>Also forgot to mention EIP honors program <a href=“http://www.mtech.umd.edu/educate/eip/”>http://www.mtech.umd.edu/educate/eip/</a></p>
<p>The founder of Under Armour (who attended UMD) was part of the Hinmans CEO program. </p>
<p>If you’re interested in EIP, just make sure you apply by November 1. If you’re qualified for the B/K, I’d assume you’re qualified for the Honors College. Once you’re accepted into the Honors College (which requires no separate application… like I said, just apply by November 1 for best consideration), you can essentially choose which Honors Program you want to be in. EIP is one of, I believe, 7. </p>
<p>There’s also a Scholars program related to Business and Technology (if you don’t get into Honors, you may be considered for the Scholars program). </p>
<p>Thanks for bringing up Scholars - I’m confused about the Honors versus the Scholars.
I was just looking over their websites. I assume Honors is like Honors Colleges in other universities, but how does the Scholars College fit in with that?
Is it basically for people not in Honors, as an alternative academic learning community?</p>
<p>That’s basically it, yeah. Both offer a way to make a huge university smaller and more intimate. </p>
<p>Shades of grey of who gets which invite in some cases…both for “academically talented” students, but the primary difference is that you don’t need to (but can) have a lot of EC’s for honors college (seems to go more on number and breadth of AP’s taken) whereas scholars you have to demonstrate leadership outside the class with EC’s and is not as dependent on AP’s. There is crossover on standardized score range, but typically highest scores with most number AP’s are in honors…in order to be eligible for B/K invite you have to be invited to honors college. It is not a sleight to be invited to scholars instead of honors - they are just different types of programs for different types of interests - scholars does more outside of the class experiences where honors is more in-class learning if that makes sense.</p>
<p>@scholarme I found this old thread when I was trying to figure out the difference myself <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/1283252-college-park-scholars-vs-honors-college-p2.html-”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/1283252-college-park-scholars-vs-honors-college-p2.html-</a> I miss astrophysicsmom - she helped me a lot! </p>
<p>Thanks @maryversity ! </p>