<p>Has anyone received/been offered any Merit Based (not need based) LSA Scholarships (Shipman, Bentley, Stamps, Bell, Dean's, general LSA, Departmental, etc.)? If so, which, when were you notified, and how (email vs. snail mail)?</p>
<p>D was notified by email that her estimated Financial Aid package was ready, which listed a Rogel Scholarship. Snail mail notification came a day later. She was also awarded a Math Department Scholarship (Keeler) which does not show up on the Financial Aid award notice. Notification for the departmental award came by snail mail.</p>
<p>I got Regents towards the end of January- $1500, notification through mail</p>
<p>Congrats! Any other LSA admits receive merit scholarships other than Regents or OOS only awards?</p>
<p>Only regents for me… Curious whether any cc’ers have gotten bell, shipman, etc.?</p>
<p>I got the Michigan Tradition Scholarship for $10,000 and the Rogel Award of Excellence for $15,231. I’m so happy 
I was notified for the tradition one by email and mail last month, but I haven’t been notified for rogel yet, I just saw it today on my wolverine access</p>
<p>I’m rather shocked we’ve yet to be notified about Ross…</p>
<p>Nearly 600 views and NO LARGE LSA in state MERIT only based scholarship recipients?
WHERE is the $$$?</p>
<p>Are they just slow on everything merit based? Like did anyone here get into the Honors college who applied in February or later either? I applied at the end of January and haven’t heard anything back on that side of Michigan either.</p>
<p>If Michigan hasn’t even made the decisions for a lot of their applicants yet, has filtered out little to no merit money (OOS $ is like an alternate Regents in my book), and hasn’t responded back to most of the Honors college applicants,
are we ever going to get much attention or anything from the University? It’s a bit frustrating. I know we have only a month more to wait, but I was told I’d get my merit and honors decision a month ago. They didn’t respond to my email either…
Venting, I know :(</p>
<p>Potential Bentley Scholars have already interviewed, and I’m pretty sure the decision has already been made. I know this because I’m a current Bentley Scholar and we had lunch with the interviewees on March 14th. </p>
<p>I don’t know about any of the other scholarships, sorry. =/</p>
<p>I applied to Honors College in late February and was accepted to it exactly three weeks after I applied. I am hoping to get a merit scholarship, though.</p>
<p>Thanks for that info xxCiara. How many people get invited to the Bentley weekend? Does everyone receive a scholarship? Varied amounts?</p>
<p>My experience is kind of limited because I’m a current freshman (meaning I’m new to the process, so I’m still learning). Last year, I got notified via both email and snail mail, and invited to attend the Bentley Weekend, which was basically an interview, lunch, and Campus Day. There were three of us getting interviewed, but there were four or five this year. I think that’s a typical number. Also, I’m not sure about this year, but last year the “winner” of the scholarship got $12,500 per year (yay me! =P). The others got $10,000 (I’m pretty sure) per year. Everyone also got invited into the Bentley Society, automatic admission to the Honors Program (and RC as well, I’m pretty sure - I wasn’t overly concerned with that part), as well as first-choice in housing for the first year. The number of “winners” varies based on their budget. I haven’t heard anything about how many there will be this year. </p>
<p>Does that answer your questions?</p>
<p>D1 is accepted LSA (IS), preferred admission to College of Pharmacy, 3.99UW, 36 ACT, 2400 SAT and the only merit scholarship offered was the $1500 Regents. She’s not overly disappointed since U of M probably wouldn’t have been able to match some of her other offers, but as parents we’re a little surprised they didn’t make more of an effort to keep an IS student with great stats. Hopefully others have better luck.</p>
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<p>I agree that this is pretty surprising. Most in-state students with stats that strong usually get offered one of the better scholarships. A lot of the folks who’ve received Shipman scholarships over the last 5 years had very similar stats to this. Michigan’s loss I suppose …</p>
<p>I got the Tucker Memorial Scholarship (only $5250/year)… I’m OOS, and it’s purely merit based (I don’t qualify for financial need D: ). This definitely doesn’t qualify as a large scholarship though :(</p>
<p>I’m surprised your daughter didn’t get invited to Shipman Weekend, Wolverine86. There can’t be very many with that kind of record. By the way, Shipman interviews are this weekend, my daughter is taking some candidates to class with her on Monday.</p>
<p>We thought she stood a good chance of being invited, but I’m sure all the invitees are outstanding and deserving students as well. Shipman was about the only way U of M would’ve been affordable for us, so not being invited actually made it possible for her to choose a university earlier in the process. Blessings in disguise…</p>
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Even though they say that it is largely based on ACT/SAT/GPA, I’m pretty sure Shipman scholarship considers ECs more than grades and scores. My friend was invited to Shipman and she doesn’t have a 4.0 (got a couple Bs). But what she has is qualification to the International Science and Engineering Fair. She was also accepted to multiple top colleges. So I think Shipman is doesn’t care a great deal about numbers, everyone who qualifies for Shipman pretty much has similar SAT/ACT/GPA. It’s their achievement in life.</p>
<p>My S sent an e-mail off to the Financial Aid department yesterday stating that he got reasonably nice merit aid from UC Berkeley and UCLA (approximately $9,000 per year from each school and we pay CA in-state tuition), but that Michigan was still at the top of his list. Is there any chance that Michigan might match this? I was pleased and proud that he took the initiative to send an e-mail to their FA office. He was accepted to the CoE at all these schools but he really liked the Engineering school on North Campus. I’d like to see him get an out-of-state college experience, but not at the current cost differential.</p>
<p>Edit: WA only had some loan and work study money listed, no merit aid, and I’m sorry if I posted this on an LSA thread.</p>