<p>i got notified a few days ago that i received a $48,000 scholarship ($12,000/year) as one of the top out of state students or something. it's not financial aid, so it's probably more along the lines of a merit-type award. did anyone else get this? how many people get this? i'm kind of confused.</p>
<p>Wow congrats! I heard that it was really tough to get merit aid from Illinois.</p>
<p>I got that scholarship; it is a merit-award for top out of state admittances, I’m not sure how many people recieve the scholarship, there are others who have posted here saying they have gotten the scholarship as well. It’s weird though, cuz the majority of those (percieved majority) were sent out much earlier, unless this is another “wave” being released now.</p>
<p>I’m From California, and I got one too!</p>
<p>My daughter received this scholarship around Christmas time.</p>
<p>Scroll down to the bottom of this link.
[U</a> of I Admissions: Scholarships for select freshmen in any academic discipline, based on academic excellence](<a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/cost/scholarships_ALLdisciplines.html]U”>Page Not Found, Illinois Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>i did not get this scholarship…i REALLY hope they aren’t done giving them</p>
<p>The engineering school also lists a number of scholarships, some of which seem to be purely merit based. Has anyone out there received any of these (incoming freshman or current/previous students), and if so, can you provide any information on these (when they are awarded, what caliber of students get them, etc)? The scholarship site says something about awards being decided in the first week of March, but I don’t know how accurate that is.</p>
<p>^I received the Mcgranger (sp?) award ($1200 for 1st semester) in the mail about a week ago, but thats it. I got an e-mail a couple of days prior to that about applying to a bunch of scholarships via this e-mail attachment and I mailed that in, too, but the deadline for that was in early march and I haven’t heard back yet (probably because its too soon).</p>
<p>Kiruyama, which school/major have you been accepted into? Is it in Engineering, and are you a Freshman? And was the scholarship you received from the Engineering department or some other source? I looked up the “McGranger” award and couldn’t find one listed for UIUC, but maybe you had spelled it wrong or I was looking in the wrong place. </p>
<p>Your statement that you received an email asking you to apply to a bunch of scholarships just a few weeks ago worries me, because my son never received such an email…</p>
<p>It could be related to this donation.
“Thanks to a $1.5 million donation from The Grainger Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, scholarships will be given to freshmen enrolling in electrical or computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign starting with the Fall 2008 semester. The scholarship program was created to help ECE Illinois continue its long tradition of attracting outstanding students.”</p>
<p>I googled Grainger and UIUC…don’t know anything about other scholarships though.</p>