<p>MDdad2012 – I was told on Friday morning (2/24) from our Admissions Counselor that all Scholarship notifications had been sent out.</p>
<p>congrats to everyone who got a scholarship!</p>
<p>I don’t understand why I received zero scholarship money?
4.6w/3.9uw GPA with 7 AP classes
2070 SAT
31 ACT
Honors College, Engineering
Great ECs, essays, recs
I have 19 community college credits on top of AP credits</p>
<p>Low SATs maybe? I don’t plan on staying for four years, so maybe that is why?
What does UMD look for when distributing merit scholarships?
Parents are not paying for any of my education so I am worried</p>
<p>It looks like merit aid is very SAT-driven at Maryland. My daughter had 4.6 weighted GPA, 6 AP classes, 2120/2400 - 1320/1600 SAT and didn’t get any merit aid. Low 1300’s is probably not enough.</p>
<p>I got 1310 on my SATs and I got 2k a year so I don’t think that is all they are decided on…</p>
<p>haha I like your sn^</p>
<p>hahahaha thanks 
It is something that I said one time in reference to my dancing ability…</p>
<p>My son received a President’s scholarship for $5000 per year. His stats are 4.5 weighted GPA and 35 ACT. In-state. We are very grateful.</p>
<p>This whole thing is very strange - my son has exactly the same stat but got none. 4.5/35 (one try)/in-state/NMF/honors. </p>
<p>@momofapplicant - Congrats to your son.</p>
<p>@skillzofawalnut, you are right. I am sure there are other factors. I think you being OOS might be a factor in your case, even though 2K is not a huge dent for OOS tuition.</p>
<p>@FromMD.</p>
<p>Interesting…had exact opposite experience as you.
Got tons of $$ & help from UMD & OSU and never heard back from Pitt (great school) after the Sept acceptance letter. Just goes to show ya there’s no exact formula. Congrats on having a college search strategy that provided you enviable options.</p>
<p>Well now I’m bummed out.</p>
<p>you might want to check to see if umd received all you fafsa/financial aid documents. that’s what happened to me so now i have to wait…</p>
<p>@meaza5</p>
<p>Who should I contact to see if they received my FAFSA/Financial Aid documents?</p>
<p>The FAFSA/Financial Aid stuff doesn’t influence these kind of scholarships (merit aid). I’m not sure when they do the FA packaging.</p>
<p>mdtomd they sent me an email</p>
<p>and it does affect it, they won’t notify you about any awards whether merit/need-based until they have all the documents. at least thats what the lady i talked to said…</p>
<p>Son received the letter today - 32k over 4 years. We are IS. I understand the last batch of merit scholarship letters went out on Thursday… UMBC letter came today too - 72k over 4 years. Good day for him. For those of you still waiting, good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks FromMd,</p>
<p>Any chance you can share your son’s stats? I’m instate also and this seemed to have breathed some more hope into me possibly receiving a letter. If they were mailed out Thursday…do you think there’s still a chance for me to receive one?</p>
<p>Well, look for today’s delivery. I am no expert on mail delivery but I suppose it depends on where you are. We live about 40 min away in MC. I put his stats before but here is again…
- 35 ACT one sitting (36/36/36/33)
- 3.79 UW/4.5W
- NMF
- 8 APs, all others honors
- some AP award (can’t remember exact title)
- ~500 community service
- Asian
- from public magnet school in MD</p>
<p>Hope the mailman delivers a good news for you…</p>
<p>Thank you so much for responding so soon. Your son certainly deserves the letter he received, if not more and by comparison my stats don’t match up as well.</p>
<p>2000 SAT (1330 M+CR)
3.98 UW, 4.65 W
6 APs, all other honors
Highly-touted science internship
White, male
In-state</p>
<p>And I live roughly 45 mins away in FC, but I would LOVE just 2K a year. Anyways, thanks again and the best of luck to your son!!</p>