I didn’t see anything about this on the UMich threads so am trying here - UMich will require the CSS and FAFSA, I believe, and they’re not ready for me to send quite yet. But is it possible that DS is still being considered for OOS merit in parallel? He’s been admitted EA to the Engineering School.
@fretfulmother Some of my friends have received the Regents scholarship ($1,500 a year) with out submitting any financial aid material yet.
Thanks! Is that a scholarship for a particular group of kids, like in state or a certain major? @zeedoq
I also received a scholarship without completing the CSS?FAFSA. I received the Jean Fairfax scholarship ($13,100 a year), so you do not have to submit either document to be considered for merit.
I’m sure he can still be considered…but merit awards for OOS students at Michigan are extremely few and very competitive. There used to be more awards, but this has gone down significantly in the last ten years.
The school guarantees to meet full need for all instate students, and is working towards doing so for OOS. So…get those financial aid applications completed.
We had a discussion about a month or so ago on Michigan OOS merit money, quote from there:
"From what I can gather, LSA has about 100 scholarships (merit only) primarily for students admitted by December 24 in EA.
Then there are 50 Stamps scholarships. And departments can have scholarships too. They call them “recruitment” scholarships for high merit, I suppose to entice a kid who may go Ivy/MIT/Stanford instead.
They don’t seem to prefer IS over OOS for these. There are a number of IS only scholarships.
From prior years, looks like kids got 5k to 20k. The IS were less bc tuition was less. I guess we’ll see."
Not sure what CoE gives out:)
Usually merit aid is awarded by the admissions office or some other department. Need based aid is from the FA office. Sometimes you’ll get the merit award letter from the admissions office and then they send the info over to the FA office. At my daughter’s school, the FA office waits until they have all the types of FA (school based, state based, federal grants and loans) before sending out the comprehensive award letter, and they do wait for the FAFSA filing and processing to post it to the account just once.
The daughter got her acceptance and merit aid letter in Feb. The merit award was wrong, and it took a while to sort that out. None of this was from FA but from admissions (but of course I called FA and was transferred to Admissions to fix it). The FA office stuff didn’t show up until June on her account. Some stuff was still missing, so after many phone calls we located it.
It takes a village…and I think I spoke to each and every member of the village at her school trying to get things straightened out, several people at the state agency, the athletic department, the registrar (name wrong on file), housing (wrong meal plan).
If you think your son should have a merit award, call. Talk to the Village Elders, the Village Matchmaker, the Village Barber. Someone might have your money.
@twoinanddone - LOL! I do want to call the Village Matchmaker for him. That will make prom planning much easier. 
But I don’t think he necessarily should have a merit award though I’d like him to!
@HRSMom For CoE, they call it Engineering Scholarships of Honors and it is $8000 for in-state (vs $5000-$10000 in LSA) and $20000 for OOS (same as LSA). These merit aids are independent of needs. My D got the award notice only a week or two after we submitted FAFSA even before DRT verification. So I don’t think it matters for that. However, departmental scholarships (for sophomore and up) do have a need component.
@zeedoq Regent Scholarships are for the top ~1100 or so in-state students admitted. That would be around 20% of all admitted in-state students.
If you are looking for money from UofM, make sure your student fills out the scholarship profile on Wolverine Access to be considered for everything available.
Ok slight update - he filled out the scholarship profile but I don’t think there was anything promising there. Also, I ran the numbers for UMI’s NPC/EFC online, and it said we would be full pay. Given that, should I do the FAFSA/CSS for UMI at all? FAFSA is not a problem once I do it for the other schools, but CSS charges per school, and while it’s not a huge amount, it will annoy me to do it for an expected grant of zero. Basically, UMI only works for DS with merit aid, and that is possibly still on the table. What would you all do?
i’m only having S do fafsa in case we need to borrow. No aid here either.
@HRSMom - is he set on Michigan?
Not yet. He’s still waiting on a few more.