Application complete 11/7ish, received acceptance on portal 1/19, received merit letter 2/1!
$12K a year.
GPA 3.75, SAT 1400
Application complete early November - Acceptance on portal 12/8 to Bio Sciences - same letter offered $15K / year merit (OOS). 4.7 Weighted / 3.99 UW, 35 ACT, 1500 SAT
Would love to get invitation to Distinguished Scholar selection weekend.
2 questions on DS program: (1) when are the invitations sent? (2) if you’re one of the finalists but not the actual winners, do you get some money…are there other merit $ opportunities besides admission and DS? To even consider UD, have to get it equivalent to UMd (our in-state school).
Last year first sent out notices on Friday feb 3.
About 100 get invited and I believe there are about 10 full rides. Everyone invited gets at least 25,000 or so but it replaces your original merit offer does not go on top of it.
I started a separate thread about discholars that you should follow to see when invites start to come out.
You have great stats. Good luck to you.
I submitted my app on 12/22/17, was accepted to the Pre-Veterinary Medicine & Animal Biosciences major on 1/19/18, and just received a UD Trustee Scholarship of $19k/year (OOS) in the mail on 2/1/18.
Just accepted!! Weighted GPA: 3.58 ACT: 28 (OOS).
Congratulations. The disappearing major strikes again
same here!!
Did anyone got info for the financial part?
Daughter was just accepted for biomedical engineering…elation!
@mcwalk18 I thought 15k was max OOS merit award. Is that a typo or did you get 19j?
@abc201822 yes you can of course! They have a lot of study abroad opportunities, but world scholars lets you do it freshman year, and then wherever you want in your junior year, but ws also has opportunities if you plan on doing some sort of international studies
DD accepted tonight! Major disappeared from the portal yesterday.
@burghdad I thought so too, but my letter says $76k over four years/$9.5k per semester. Maybe they made an error?
They do make errors. The initial acceptance letter on my child’s portal said $15K/semester of merit. We were like “woo-hoo!” but we knew it was a mistake based on the published amounts of merit. When the yellow envelope came, it was corrected to $15K a year. OOS, very high stats kid.
@STF4717 can you confirm that you received acceptance on your blue hen account and then LATER you received merit? I was accepted but nothing in acceptance about merit.
@burghdad just want to confirm. 1st you received acceptance via blue hen with no mention of merit, and at a later date you received snail mail that had merit? Just asking as we have acceptance but no mention of money.
We got acceptance in portal 2 weeks ago. Then this week, a letter (just small white envelope- do not know anything about the “big yellow envelope”) with merit.
@STF4717 Ok. Thanks. I am just hoping a letter coming , don’t care if the size ;). As that is what all decisions are being based on.
I also got accepted, but with no merit. When will a letter be coming my way? 1-2 weeks?!
@mags425 yes admission in portal. Big yellow envelope a few days later and then seperate letter with merit award about 2-3 weeks later is how it happened for my daughter