Except you do need to be in Honors to get Banneker Key.
So on what basis president or dean scholarship given if it is not academic?
Is Bannakers key scholarship announced yet?
DD OOS 4.0 UW 34 ACT Solid ECs and Essay. Admitted EAā¦ No Honors or Premier Scholar invite. Just received Presidential Merit Total $20,000 or $5,000 per year. Already accepted to Privates with much higher merit resulting in lower out of pocket . Somewhat disappointedā¦
I donāt know and there is nothing in the CDS to answer that question
I think you need to look at it differently.
If you are a merit chaser, you know up front UMD has little opportunity.
The Presidential, which my son received $5k, is up to $12.5k. The Dean is $1500 in year one and $3k in year two. Obviously the BK can be significant but one should not expect that although one can hope.
Itās known upfront that UMD is a hard merit get. So anyone who achieved any $& should be proud.
If youāre a merit chaser, however, itās ok to swing for the fencesā¦sort of like applying to a reach college.
But the expectation of achieving significant $ should be low and therefore you should have other schools that you know can meet the price you are targeting.
So it seems to me that you handled the application process correctly because you found options to give you a much lower price.
One should never fall in love with a school. But thatās even more important when you are chasing merit.
In essence, you did get a great price somewhere (it sounds like). So to me your strategy worked. After all, you can only attend one school.
To me, merit hunters should apply wide, only to schools where merit is possible even if unlikely and if they have a really low price they need, they should include schools that can assuredly get them to their priceā¦ie Arizona, UAH, Alabama, Florida State for example. When the student has a 4.0 (Arizona) or a top ACTā¦the Alabama schools, Florida State.
I hope sheāll love the school sheāll attend. As they say, love those that love you back (which UMD did in many ways as itās not an easy in). Good luck.
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Yes, interviews are tentatively scheduled for Mar 1st week, no exact date/time is communicated yet
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Best wishes with the Stamps! Your daughter sounds extremely talented!
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Our son received Presidents scholarship too today. OOS engineering, no Honors
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Thank you!
My S received Presidents scholarship too yesterday, $8k/yr, Honors. But not admitted directly to CS, only admitted to L&S. Most likely we would go somewhere else.
If I may ask, did this offer come with the email detailing your S(onās) financial aid package or was it a separate email? My D who got into the CP Scholars program didnāt get anything other than the standard Federal unsubsidized loan offer
same stats received the same amount. congrats!
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DS admitted OOS to CS with Honors and 48K (over 4 years) Presidential scholarship. Weāll visit (have only done virtual) but not sure itās enough to justify over solid in-state options (UVA-Rodman; VT- no Honors)
GPA 4.0 UW, 4.9W (10-12 APs), ACT 36, a lot of CS ECs and leadership
Good luck all!
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a lot of CS ECs
If I may ask, what kind of CS ECs? My S did not want to put quite a few CS ECs on his application because he thought they were not as important.
Congrats to your son on his scholarship award and Honors admittance. Are you basing your decision to most likely go elsewhere on the fact that your son was not admitted directly to CS? If yes, I would just make sure you understand that as long as your son meets the gateway requirements (and I assume heās an excellent student given his scholarship award and admittance to the Honors program) he is guaranteed admittance to the CS program.
You may have plenty of other reasons for considering other schools above UMD but just wanted to make sure that you werenāt doing it primarily because he wasnāt directly admitted to CS.
That is the primary concern that we wonāt consider UMD at this point. My understanding is it will be another holistic review to admit to CS and we really do not want to spend more time on it. And he also has other options.
12k every year would bring the tuition close to UVA in-state rates. The CS program at UMD is highly rated and having compared the curriculum, UMD is more inline with the technology trends. My DS got into Rodman scholar as well, but I am not sure if its enough to tip the scales attending UVA.
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Sure thingā¦
He did 3 summers of research internships with two different companies
Worked each summer for school system as IT support, school leadership looks to him for cybersecurity issues (scary, I know), IT squad during academic year each day for tech support for faculty/students, several additional courses (quantum computing, etc), Best Buy Geek Squad, and then robotics stuff (president, community outreach). Thatās what I recall from his resume, more trivial stuff (programming languages/courses) Iād probably state incorrectly