People can post merit awards they received from UMN , with their stats and type of award amount.
10,000/yr from the National Scholarship
31 ACT, 3.8 UW / 4.3W
I also placed in the top 20 nationally in debate, that probably helped.
D17 received the $10,000 Gold Award but it’s contingent on being named an NMF and naming UMTC as her first choice college. She also received a $5,000 Presidential (renewable for 4 years) and a $1,000 one-time award for study abroad.
ACT: 34
uw GPA 3.9
Has been a member of an academic team since 9th grade; done some community service
National Merit Semifinalist (which explains the Gold)
In-State
When did you apply? I was accepted in late November but still haven’t heard back about merit aid.
@Isaroo my daughter applied late summer.
I received the National Scholarship of 10k/yr. My ACT is 30, GPA unweighted is 4.0. I am OOS all the way from the east coast, which probably helped. I also bring some diversity to the table. I have tons of EC’s and have some research experience from a summer camp at Drexel.
I am hoping for Honors and Merit but haven’t heard either. Was wondering how soon after acceptance did you hear about scholarships. I am on the East Coast as well. Accepted Engineering in December.
So we should keep this thread going for our class I know there is an older one that kept going for a bit
Some major scholarships have gone out already but not sure they are tied to when you applied, except that the Priority Deadline applicants probably get first consideration.
10k/year National Scholarship. 30 ACT, 4.0 unweighted GPA, hella ECs. Yet no honors lol??
@hellabi - When were you accepted and when were you notified of your Scholarship? My son has a 3.9 UW and a 32 ACT. He has a ton of EC’s as well and we have heard nothing except his acceptance back in mid-November. Starting to lose hope in a scholarship which will take Minnesota off the list.
Still no word on scholarship I was accepted in December. not sure how @hellabi heard
I applied in October and was accepted in December. I just received the scholarship envelope in the mail yesterday, and I never received any emails. Weird right? I think they’re slowly mailing out the scholarship info.
Scholarship info. is by regular mail only.
It’s important to realize that the National Scholarship applies to OOS (non reciprocity). This also happens to be one of the most common scholarships mentioned on this thread (and also similar threads in other years) so don’t feel bad if you are an in-stater with superlative stats and you hear about all these National scholars. Unfortunately, they are in a different eligibility pool just due to their tuition residency.
Previous to this year, it covered pretty much all of the tuition differential. To be eligible, you had to be well under top 10% in your graduating class - most I recall were either 4.0 (uw) or under top 5%. So very competitive. ACT score was probably a factor as well so recipients would be 30+ or equivalent SAT, but the specific deciding factor was GPA/class rank. Not sure what the criteria is now, but the amount has been capped at $10,000 in the wake of the significant OOS tuition increases expected to apply to non-reciprocity students. So it no longer even covers the whole differential, although it is a nice amount of money.
Just got my daughters scholarship letter yesterday in the mail. She got the National Scholarship for $10,000. She applied to CBS October 19, was accepted Oct.31. We live in Illinois.
Her stats are 33 ACT, 4.35 w/gpa, 3.87 uw, ranked 18/471, 10 AP Classes, many clubs, over 100 hours of volunteer work, etc.
@jpc763, I was beginning to think she wasn’t going to get anything either. I am so relieved. Yours will hopefully come soon.
@JBStillFlying - Thanks for that great info. S17 was accepted into CSE on 11/15. He has a 3.9uw/4.0w GPA & ACT 32 (English 30, Math 33, Reading 32, Science 34, Writing 26). His class rank is 27/402 or top 6.7%.
Does the National Merit scholarship differ depending on which school you get into?
@uommom - I hope so. With the tuition increase expected for OOS students, Minnesota becomes out of reach in comparison to other schools on the list.
@jpc763 I don’t know the answer to that. The National is a University-wide scholarship (as opposed to a department-or-college-specific one); however, with the strongest candidates tending to apply to the most selective colleges, there might be a CSE/CBS/CSOM-heavy concentration of recipients. I don’t think it’s been like admission to Honors, which IS college-specific, but they may have tweaked the criteria given the change in OOS tuition policy. Have you contacted your S17’s admission counselor because he/she might be able to give you some detailed info, including whether it’s reasonable to expect any merit aid.
He has great stats - the U would be lucky to get him!
This is great news about scholarship mailings finally coming out. Anyone know if these mailings are all decided and sent out at once or if done in waves? Also if recipient doesn’t accept award (for instance, instead accepts at another school) does that scholarship then get re-awarded?
@JBStillFlying - I will need to dig into his acceptance file to see if there is a admission counselor assigned to him. Ye was accepted into CSE so hopefully he gets a letter in the near future.
@jpc763, I was starting to get nervous for my daughter as she received money at all the other schools she applied to but Minnesota is her #1 school. I had her call her admissions counselor on Tuesday during her lunch period. Her admissions counselor told her she was awarded the National Scholarship and that the info was mailed out late last week. It then arrived yesterday. So I would have your son call…they can maybe tell him ahead of you receiving the mailing.