Hi all. Any info I found for this was over 4 years old, so I thought I’d see if anyone had newer intel. For OOS students, are they likely to get any merit with high stats (4.0/34) Is there any trend anyone has seen? Or are they generally IS or only given to a few? When would someone accepted EA hear about this?
Thanks.
ACT 34 would be a little bit tight as they have at least 25% admitted student with ACT 34 or higher last year. In general, you need ACT 35+ for major scholarships. They do offer merit scholarships to OOS students and the amount is around double of in state student ($20k vs $10k). Scholarship notice should come out around mid Feb to mid March.
In general, Michigan rarely gives merit based scholarships because every student is strong academically. They may even give less consideration to OOS students because they came voluntarily - they had the option to stay IS if finances were a barrier.
I agree that most monies would fall in the category of financial need aid. There is no compelling reason for tuition discounting.
Anyone know how many OOS scholarships they give?
From what I can gather, LSA has about 100 scholarships (merit only) primarily for students admitted by December 24 in EA.
Then there are 50 Stamps scholarships. And departments can have scholarships too. They call them “recruitment” scholarships for high merit, I suppose to entice a kid who may go Ivy/MIT/Stanford instead.
They don’t seem to prefer IS over OOS for these. There are a number of IS only scholarships.
From prior years, looks like kids got 5k to 20k. The IS were less bc tuition was less. I guess we’ll see…
@HRSMom Your info is correct. However, most departmental scholarships (except Music school for instance) are for sophomore or higher after declaring major. I don’t think there are much preference for in state students in merit aids as I have seen a lot of OOS students report their scholarships in this forum in the past. However, you may be looking at ~1% of admitted OOS students receiving the $20k level scholarship.
@billcsho I only saw one $20k in past!
But, I also noted this year the scholarships will be primarily for those admitted EA by Dec 24, So that narrows it just a tad:)
I think the policy did not change significantly. They have been saying applying EA for merit scholarships but they could not finish the EA review by December 24 sometimes in the past. The cut off date of admission for scholarships was Feb 1 in the past I think. Now they are admitting less students in EA, they probably can finish the work in picking top students earlier. I don’t think that would affect the top students either way.
DD recently got Stamps scholarship offer. The offer letter indicates that 18 incoming students are awarded and the scholarship will cover full COA with 10k for summer.
@DAPIStained Congrats! That is a wonderful offer.
We went to accepted students’ day yesterday and the LSA representative said 92% of LSA scholarships are need based. So there is some merit-based, but not much. 
@blprof If they consider all the grant money as need based scholarship, then it is not a surprise. Around 30% of students receive grant money. While merit scholarships goes to the top few % of students.
Oh, I know. We’re not expecting anything (but holding onto a sliver of hope). 
Just wanted to let others know what they said.
Merit aid will not over your costs, or even a large percentage of it.
Scholarships from a public institution should be reserved for in state students only. Going out of state is a choice, thus those who choose to go out of state should be expected to pay full tuition. The option to stay in state is available for those who are unwilling to pay that level of tuition.
^ Tell that to the dozens of public institutions that do provide OOS merit awards.
Don’t get me wrong. I think UofM should do whatever they want.
Scholarships are not from state fund but mostly from private donation and endowment. I don’t see why it should be restricted to in state students. Nevertheless, UMich guarantees to meet the need of all in state students and they offer grants to more in state students.
In addition, there are near a dozen scholarships that do cover significant portion of CoA or even full ride for OOS students each year.
@umcoe16 That would make for a more convincing argument in the state of Michigan contributed more to UM’s budget. This year the state contributed a bit over 4%. That’s one reason why Michigan likes to say it is “publicly assisted”.
@umcoe16 if the scholarships are from donors, it is not a “state” thing period. In staters already get a huge benefit from in state tuition vs. State funding levels.