<p>I'm wondering about merit scholarships being offered to OOS engineering students with high stats & NMF. I found a Q&A document stating that about 90 scholarships are given each year, but it didn't say how big they might be. Are these generally something that would really help offset the high cost of OOS tuition, or just small scholarships of a few thousand dollars or less? Thanks.</p>
<p>They can range from less than $1,000 per year up to an amount close to full tuition for an OOS, although for an amount close to full tuition you usually need to get both an award from the engineering college and the $12,000 per year University Achievement Scholarship which is applicable to OOS and offered by the university as a whole. Of those offered by the engineering college many range in in amount from 1/4 the OOS portion of tuition to full OOS portion of tuition (meaning you would pay close to in-state amount; scholarships are awarded as a set dollar amount, e.g., that $12,000 mentioned above, other than as a stated percentage of tuition, and thus they usually don’t equal exactly the tuition amount).</p>
<p>Any idea what determines the size of the award, is it stat based or does it consider need, or…?</p>
<p>I wonder if oos students are eligible to the 30 full ride scholarship for NMF.</p>
<p>Do you have a link for those NMF scholarships?</p>
<p>^ @mathyone
It is awarded under the Provost Scholarship but it is not solely for NMF.
[U</a> of I Admissions: Scholarships for All Academic Disciplines](<a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/cost/scholarships_alldisciplines.html]U”>Page Not Found, Illinois Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>Here is some info I found on collegeboard:
Provost Scholarship: full tuition, renewable with 3.0 GPA; National Achievement, National Hispanic Scholar finalists, or National Merit finalists who have indicated the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as their top choice.</p>
<p>See also previous discussion on that:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1128225-provost-scholarship-national-merit-finalists-uiuc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1128225-provost-scholarship-national-merit-finalists-uiuc.html</a></p>
<p>It seems it is only for in state students though.</p>
<p>The provost scholarship is not for NMF anymore. They changed the criteria. I e-mailed the university not long ago because they had conflicting descriptions of scholarship on 2 different pages of their website and they said that one of the pages has not been updated, but it is no longer an NMF scholarship. It is an IS only scholarship in any case.</p>
<p>The $12k/yr university achievement scholarship, which is OOS only award that covers most of the difference between IS and OOS, seems to be primarily stats based and is given to many high stat OOS. They may well give you dept scholarship on top of that. My D was offered an additional $8K/yr from her dept, not engineering though, on top of university achievement. Engineering is quite competitive at UIUC.</p>
<p>Did you see this?
<a href=“Majors & Minors | The Grainger College of Engineering | UIUC”>http://engineering.illinois.edu/prospective-students/list-freshmen-engineering-scholarships</a></p>
<p>The Provost scholarship is never official for NMF. They just use NMF as one of the criteria and it has a quota of only 30.</p>