<p>I recently received an offer of loans from UMD, but I would much prefer a scholarship, haha. Are they done handing out merit scholarships?</p>
<p>Probably…it’s very late in the season to be looking for scholarships from the university. You may want to look at other sources of scholarships (like employers, parents employers, etc.) but it’s late for many of those also.</p>
<p>UMD gives out very little money when it comes to merit compared to other universities, so I would guess that in your scenario you did not make the cut.</p>
<p>I think UMD actually gives out more money than other universities…a lot of my friends got some money from them. I even got $9k per year. At least compared to other universities I applied to, UMD has been very generous…</p>
<p>Historically UMD is very low. For our DS it was the lowest, and actually the only one where we had to pay almost 75%. The rest were free or 75% SCHOLARSHIP. That includes NYU, UMiami Florida, AFA and Notre Dame.</p>
<p>If you look around these threads, you will see that many of the OOS posters who were Scholars, Gemstone or Honors will not be attending UMD because the merit sclarship was so little.</p>
<p>My question to you is that Merit or FA? There is a big difference. And even in that realm they stink.</p>