<p>I know UMDCP offers BK full scholarships to some honors students, but is there any other partial merit-based scholarships offered to honors students? </p>
<p>Does being in-state increase your chances of receiving a scholarship?</p>
<p>There are a few scholarships actually you can find them on the website.</p>
<p>I actually heard the opposite. As an in-state student they give us less money and give more to the out of state geniuses so they’ll choose Mayland over another school. Which sucks for us in state kinds…
BUTTT of course they still give scholarships to in state students as well it just might not be as much.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! That’s too bad, I was hoping it’d be an advantage!</p>
<p>Not necessarily true about OOS and scholarships. Last year, we were told that it is extremely rare for OOS students to get the BK scholarship - it is reserved primarily for IS students.</p>
<p>I think it makes sense to give full scholarships to in state students though because then they can pay less but still put on their website that they have this large amount of B/Ks! Colleges are very tricky!</p>
<p>Does anyone know the typical gpa/sats of bk scholars? And are all honors students eligible?</p>
<p>We were very disappointed in how the BK situation was handled last year. My son, who was an honors admit, was offered a President’s scholarship, which was generous, but not enough for us since we are OOS. He was considered for BK, but the interviews are held on specific dates, and they only will notify you by mail, not by e-mail. Therefore, you have to wait to see if you get a letter in the mail before making last-minute plans to travel, make hotel arrangements, etc. The school refused to acknowledge that he was not invited to BK and had not been sent a letter, even a week after letters had gone out. We had called to make sure that he had not gotten a letter, to make sure it had not gotten lost in the mail, and to know whether we had to make plans to travel to the school. After several days of literally pleading to get the info, they admitted that he was not invited. It would have been much easier if it had been handled by e-mail or if they had just been up front on the phone.</p>
<p>We were also informed that BK is rarely offered to OOS students. It was such a shame, because we were led to believe at the info session that it was open to all students. He might never have put his hopes into UMD if he had known it was only a remote possibility. He was offered several ivy admissions, and is currently at an ivy paying half of what we would have had to pay at UMD due to generous need-based fin. aid. Even with the ivy admissions, he was still debating about UMD, given their wonderful music and science programs, great campus, proximity to DC, etc. You IS folks have a great school. Those of us from OOS, who don’t necessarily have a comparable flagship school are envious!</p>
<p>Maryland20134 - GPA - High. My son’s was about 3.8 or 3.9. SAT - Last year, the Banneker/Key folks told us that the average SAT for Banneker/Key Scholars was 1500/1600.</p>
<p>maggiedog - “He was offered several ivy admissions, and is currently at an ivy paying half of what we would have had to pay at UMD due to generous need-based fin. aid.” Very true. My son was offered the full Banneker/Key, but his eventual Ivy choice offered enough financial aid to make it affordable to go, in spite of having a full scholarship to Maryland.</p>
<p>Notjoe - Just curious - are you IS? My son’s CR/M SAT was 1570; 3 SAT subject tests - 2 with an 800, 1 with a 780; 8 AP classes; GPA was 3.97, class rank was #2, and had tons of EC’s. But no BK invitation.</p>
<p>maggiedog - Yes, we’re in-state. My son’s numbers very similar to yours.</p>
<p>In 2011, at least, the dollar amount for a partial B/K was higher for OOS than in-state, but the in-state award covered a higher percentage of in-state tuition that the percentage of OOS tuition covered by the OOS award. So OOS B/K scholars had a higher dollar amount, but they also had a bigger gap still to cover.</p>
<p>And full was, of course, full.</p>
<p>Thanks, Notjoe. I know I can’t generalize from only one example, but this is what we found last year from others as well. In the end, it worked out for my son, but he was disappointed at first.</p>
<p>maggiedog,</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if in-state residents were given some preference. When I graduated high school in the late 1970s, almost literally in Maryland’s backyard, as a National Merit Scholar, I didn’t view Maryland as a serious consideration. I applied in the unlikely event that no one else would take me, but since every other school to which I applied accepted me, Maryland wasn’t even an also-ran.</p>
<p>A few years after I graduated, Maryland made the commitment to a long-term quest to rise from a mediocre state school primarily known for its party culture to a premier public university, nationally and even internationally renowned.</p>
<p>A critical component to this rise from mediocrity was the early recognition that the state must keep a fair share of its own talent. It’s tough to become world-class without great students, and it’s tough to get a critical mass of great students if you don’t do something to attract the great students in your own backyard.</p>
<p>Sikorsky,</p>
<p>Same for 2012. Partial Banneker/Key in-state was $8,000, out-of-state, $12,000. But tuition for in-state was about $9,000, and for out of state, roughly double.*</p>
<p>*All numbers retrieved from a middle-aged memory; no warranties for accuracy.</p>
<p>Yup. Those numbers roughly match my middle-aged recollection of 2011.</p>