<p>1) When do we expect to hear the merit scholarship decisions?
2) Does U of M favor in state students?
3) Will there be any additional application and/or interview required?
4) For U of M students who got merit scholarship, what were your SAT/ACT scores and GPA? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<li>From december to march</li>
<li>hell no, opposite</li>
<li>no</li>
<li>–</li>
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<p>D heard soon after admission</p>
<p>We are out of state</p>
<p>There was last year for College of Liberal Arts</p>
<p>ACT 99 perctile; GPA 3.9+u.w.</p>
<p>Someone I know who was in-state three years ago had a 2300 SAT (dropping points only on the writing section, I heard from his mom) and was a National Merit semifinalist. Before he became a finalist for National Merit, the U of MN offered him a full ride–meaning tuition, fees, room, board, and a stipend for study abroad and an offer of a research job on campus. So he makes money by being a student, which his mom likes. I have no idea whether or not this year’s budget will allow such deals.</p>
<p>I just got my merit scholarship offer in the mail today.</p>
<p>I got Gold Scholar Award ($7500/year) , assuming I become a national merit finalist and the Minnesota Gold Scholarship award for $6500/year.
I also got the University of Minnesota Study Abroad Freshman Scholarship. ($1000)</p>
<p>I am instate, 4.00 unweighted GPA, 2200 SAT, 35 ACT, and do PSEO.</p>
<p>I am OOS and got $2000 a few days after I received the admission letter.
My stats are terrible for an IT(CSE:D) student.
I think I am only a little higher than average.</p>
<p>Just got back from vacation today, and got my scholarship letter.</p>
<p>I got the Gold National Scholarship (or whatever it’s called… the out-of-state tuition waiver), Gold Scholar Award, Presidential Award, and Undergraduate Research Scholarship. $12,500 + research stipend + difference between out-of-state and in-state tuition… nice deal! :D</p>
<p>Full ride, OOS Texas, Asian female, GPA UW 3.5, IB diploma candidate, JROTC cadet, National Merit Semifinalist, SAT 2310 and ACT 34. Similar to mngirl but slightly less awesome ;)</p>
<p>and holy crap soadquake981. Beaaasst</p>
<p>Wait, wait, full ride? What did they call it?</p>
<p>The U pretty much throws money at students with great stats and many get paid to attend. Out of state students do seem to get better treatment…</p>
<p>No, I mean, what were the names of the scholarships you received?</p>
<p>Similar stuff as you! 
When it’s all added up it’s a full ride lol so I’m pretty satisfied.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am a Wisconsin resident so technically in-state, only recieved a $7,500 per year scholarship if National Merit Finalist (am nmsf)- even with ACT of 33 and class rank of 1 of 78, did not recieve more. (except for one time study abroad scholarship = $2,000)
It’s all right, just makes my decision a little easier to go elsewhere :)</p>
<p>My s is OOS 4.0 u/w gpa 4.3 w gpa 33 ACT rank 13/630 lots of EC’s with leadership and he only got invited to Honors College…no $$$$$ He also will graduate with 10 AP classes. I guess he needed to be NMF to be considered for $$</p>
<p>@little falls, since you are OOS and his stats are high you definitely qualify for the scholarship which provides the difference between instate and outofstate tuition. Your letter probably just hasn’t arrived yet. I can see you getting even more… as long as he applied by the December 15th deadline.</p>
<p>Scholarship list:</p>
<p><a href=“http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/schol_campus.html[/url]”>http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/schol_campus.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks…we will see.</p>