<p>Anyone get this scholarship also? Is it a hard scholarship to get and is prestigious?
Well my main question is that by march 27th i am supposed to sign saying I accept the money. However I heard back from colleges at like April 1st around ish. So any advice on how to go about this? Because I really would not like to commit to any school with out knowing where all I got in and the financial status at those other schools. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Scholraships aren't "prestigious" really. Nobody will care one way or the other that you got one. And why would you care whether it is hard to get? You got it, and that is all that should matter to you. </p>
<p>At any rate, to answer your question, the JMG is an Engineering scholarships. If I recall, it is a $20,000/year scholarship, which is no small amount. In short, you will be paying $25,000/year to attend Michigan. What state are you from? Unless you come from California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Texas or another state with a top 10 Engineering program at a publically funded university, you aren't likely to get a much better deal than that.</p>
<p>^well my main question is I have to sign their paper to commit before I hear back from all colleges (most are privates. so I have no idea how expenses will be for that dues to fluctuating fin aid packages).If I sign that paper does that mean I have to go to Mich no matter what?</p>
<p>My state has no good colleges, so Mich is looking extremely appealing to me, but I wanna know all the places I get in and all their financial aid packages, and their merit scholarships too.</p>
<p>Well, it would help if you gave us more information. </p>
<p>1) What other universities did you apply to? </p>
<p>2) What are your stats like?</p>
<p>3) Do you come from a low income, middle income or high income family?</p>
<p>1) Places like Cornell, Cmu, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley etc</p>
<p>2) 2200+ sat. 3.98 tons of AP classes, two sat 2 over 750, good ec's</p>
<p>3) Upper middle class
money is a very important consideration for me.</p>
<p>I also won this scholarship and was curious if, If you accept this scholarship, are you basically stating you will be attending UoM? Because even with this scholarship I doubt that I will be able to pay the oos cost due to my family being in the low income level.</p>
<p>toasteroven, upper middle income will probably not get you much money from the likes of Cal, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell. But those three schools aren't better than Michigan, so why wait? Harvard and Stanford may give you money but getting into those two is not easy. However, Stanford is amazing and Harvard is Harvard, although it is obviously inferior to Michigan in Engineering. I can see your predicament.</p>
<p>fleaman, if you come from a lower income family, you will probably get financial aid on top of that scholarship. Of course, there are no guarantees. You should contact the financial aid office and see what else they can do to help.</p>
<p>I was having the same problem, but with the Michigan Tradition Scholarship. After asking a few questions at Campus Day, I ended up sending an e-mail to the financial aid office asking them to extend the deadline for me to accept the scholarship. I received a reply stating that as long as I payed my enrollment deposit by the regular deadline, the scholarship was mine. I am pretty sure that, legally, a school cannot force potential students to commit before May 1 by attaching strings to scholarships.</p>
<p>fleaman/toasteroven were you just notified of this scholarship recently?</p>
<p>^yeah, just like 4 days ago</p>
<p>I heard on 2/22/09</p>