Merit Scholarships?

<p>Does Michigan give out money based solely on merit? If so, when do they usually notify recipients? </p>

<p>If they do, do you think my stats would qualify me for any amount of money?</p>

<p>I wouldn't be eligible for any financial aid ($250,000+), but money obviously would still be helpful considering i might go onto graduate school and have 3 younger siblings my parents need to help as well. </p>

<p>Applied EA:
4.0 Unweighted GPA
Rank: 1/119
Rigor: every single honors class available; will have taken 4 APs (1 Junior year, 3 Senior Year) out of 6 AP's offered. But in actuality, i only could have taken 5 maximum (one is spanish et j'etudie francais) and literally nobody in my class will have taken 5 (our counselor discourages it). Me and a few others will have taken 4 and then the majority of the "smart" kids only take 2/3.
34 ACT
790 SAT II Bio M, 5 Biology AP Exam
ECs: okay, but not spectacular. However, I moved from CT to MI between my sophomore and junior years so obviously it was near impossible to adopt leadership positions junior year as a newbie. 3 Varsity Sports, Senior Class Pres, some volunteer hours (about 110 by graduation), math tutor, however, none of the sports were played all 4 years.
Essays: I really thought my supplements and my main essay were well-written. Also, the main essay could get me diversity points I suppose (wrote about being a gay catholic). </p>

<p>My residency is confusing: I live instate and will be graduating from a Michigan high school, but because I've lived here for less than three years, I have to submit extra paperwork to prove my residency. I called in October and asked if I could wait until I was accepted to do this as it isnt due until next summer and supposedly only affects tuition, they said yes. However, a week ago I got an email from admissions saying they have to classify me as out of state and require immediate action on my part. Will this affect scholarships at all?</p>

<p>Michigan’s top merit scholarship - </p>

<p>[The</a> University of Michigan Shipman Society](<a href=“U-M Web Hosting”>U-M Web Hosting)</p>

<p>Wait…Michigan’s TOP merit scholarship is just 12k per year? Wow.</p>

<p>Literally every other school I’m applying to has a merit scholarship that can max out at a full ride. One even has MULTIPLE such scholarships.</p>

<p>Is that absurdly stingy or have I just applied to schools that are good about merit aid? Lol.</p>

<p>I’m in a very similar situation to you, stewta4. 4.0 UW, good test scores etc, not a ton of APs due to my school not offering them, except I’m OOS which makes the cost pretty brutal (good luck with your residency stuff!).</p>

<p>You could look for separate scholarships…especially LGBT ones, which are becoming more and more prevalent (my sister is also homosexual and had a great many scholarship opportunities related to that). Since you’ve already written an essay on the subject, which sounds very interesting by the way, I would definitely look into that.</p>

<p>Good luck! :)</p>

<p>i know a friend who had roughly a 3.8 UW GPA and a 28 act and landed a 40k scholarship called the michigan experience scholarship.</p>

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<p>You’re misinterpreting the website (although it is admittedly confusing.) Shipman is a full-ride, including tuition, room, board, and typically a small amount left over given as a stipend. </p>

<p>There are also several other full-ride scholarships (and many lesser ones.) All in all, Michigan has a very large number of scholarships. On the other hand, there’s a ton of students, so the individual odds are not so great.</p>

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<p>Residency isn’t a big deal for scholarships - the majority of the big scholarships go to out of state people anyway. I was in your exact situation, ie, in-state but initially classified oos, and I won one of the big scholarships.</p>

<p>It’s very difficult to evaluate your odds, but you are probably not competitive for the full-ride scholarships. You never know, though.</p>

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<p>This is probably one of the scholarships that targets URMs, ie, a diversity scholarship.</p>

<p>There is no misinterpretation of the website. It is exactly what the website says. Shipman is NOT a full ride scholarship. It is a fixed amount (previously 15k, this year reduced to 12k) plus full room & board. For instate students 15k plus room & board usually amounts a full ride, though once you are into upper-classman status (junior and senior years), with the recent tuition hike, you will have to pay some amount from your pocket.</p>

<p>However, most of the OOS Shipman scholars also usually qualify for other individual college and departmental scholarships that will reduce the gap.</p>

<p>Source: Daughter is a current full Shipman scholar.</p>

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<p>Source please.</p>

<p>I know im not competitive for full-rides haha, trust me Im not expecting any, but I think/hope I will be competitive for a partial scholarship maybe.</p>

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<p>I am a former Shipman scholar. I graduated two years ago. While I was there, Shipman always amounted to 25 / year for in-state and an amount that matched tuition room and board for OOS. True, sometimes this is done through additional scholarships through the colleges (ie, I had “engineering scholarship of honor” or some such) but these were always automatic.</p>

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<p>Sorry, there is no source, outside of the other folks I knew at Michigan on full-rides. Everybody I knew who was a Bentley scholar had a full-ride, same for Stamps, and probably several others.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the information presented on the Michigan website is not very clear or useful when it comes to scholarships. For some reason, they seem pretty secretive about how things are actually done.</p>

<p>all of these scholarships are automatically given solely based on one’s application to michigan correct? no need for extra applications/paperwork as a senior in HS?</p>

<p>None of these named scholarships ([Shipman[/url</a>], [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umich/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=1e09d0c6ea7aa110VgnVCM100000a3b1d38dRCRD&vgnextchannel=79d06886aca38110VgnVCM10000096b1d38dRCRD&vgnextfmt=default]Bentley[/url”&gt;http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umich/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=1e09d0c6ea7aa110VgnVCM100000a3b1d38dRCRD&vgnextchannel=79d06886aca38110VgnVCM10000096b1d38dRCRD&vgnextfmt=default]Bentley[/url</a>], [url=&lt;a href=“http://stampsfoundation.org/umich.html]Stamps[/url]”&gt;http://stampsfoundation.org/umich.html]Stamps](<a href=“U-M Web Hosting”>U-M Web Hosting)</a>) seem to be full-rides anymore.</p>

<p>May be due to the declining values of the respective endowments in the economic (and stock market) downturn… :-(</p>

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I don’t know about other scholarships, but Shipman is by invitation only. 50 admitted students are invited. Once invited, I believe you’ll have to do some paperwork and then appear for the Shipman competition weekend (all expenses paid - incl. airfare).</p>

<p>With tuition rising and the scholarship amount falling, it does seem like there will be a shortfall in the funding of a Shipman Scholar. When my daughter got it, the $15,000 per year covered tuition +, and a small departmental scholarship made room for extras. We were very lucky, I see. I am hopeful that the generosity of the Shipman Society will be returned when the recipients, like my daughter and Tetrahedron find success in the “real world”. It has been a great benefit not to have to worry about college costs in these trying times.</p>

<p>I can only speak about the Bentley scholarship, since I’m a current Bentley Scholar. I got a letter at the beginning of the year - January or February - and invited to interview for the scholarship in March. There were three candidates my year, and I was the only one who got it. This year there were more, and two got it. I don’t know what it is this year, but last year it was $12,500 per year, which covered tuition. Now that I’m upper division status, however, I don’t know that it will fully cover tuition anymore.</p>

I have my interview for the Bentley scholarship coming up. How was your interview experience? Do you have any tips or advice?

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