<p>I posted this on the University of Kentucky forum but it's not very active so I thought I might get more responses here...</p>
<p>I know University of Kentucky just increased their NMF scholarship package. I am trying to understand what all expenses remain after the the scholarship kicks in. I am also wondering if the automatic College of Engineering scholarship base on ACT scores is stackable with the NMF packages. </p>
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<li><p>The website lists the semester tuition and fees for an undergraduate as $4838 for instate.
I can't find anywhere where it breaks out tuition vs. mandatory fees. If a person is on the NMF scholarship, tuition is covered but not mandatory fees so knowing the breakdown between the two is important. Does anyone know what that breakdown is?</p></li>
<li><p>Also from the UK website it looks like most engineering classes are charged an additional $53/credit hour (this would be $159/per class) . For an upper division engineering student this would be an additional ~$750 or so each semester. I assume these fees are not part of tuition and would not be covered by the NMF package. Can someone confirm if I am interpreting that correctly?</p></li>
<li><p>Since it is an departmental scholarship, does the college of Engineering automatic scholarship of $1500/semester with an ACT of 29/Math ACT of 33 stack on top of the NMF scholarship?</p></li>
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<p>I'll be giving UK a call sometime this week with these questions but I would love to hear of anyone's experiences.
thanks</p>
<p>National Merit or Achievement Finalist Patterson Scholarship</p>
<p>National Merit® or Achievement® Finalists who designate UK as their college choice with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation by mid-April are eligible for the Patterson Scholarship. The Patterson Scholarship is in addition to the UK National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarship of $2,000, which is awarded though the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.*</p>
<p>Patterson Scholarship
The Patterson Scholarship is a renewable scholarship, valued at $68,000, and includes the following: Four-year renewable award covers the cost of tuition, room and board, $1,000 yearly stipend, an iPad2®, and $2,000 for a Summer Education Abroad program. No scholarship application is required for the UK National Merit®/Achievement® Finalist Patterson Scholarship, but finalists are encouraged to submit a completed Academic Scholarship application to be considered for the Singletary Scholarship Program. If a student is awarded a Singletary Scholarship, that award will replace the Patterson Scholarship.*</p>
<p>Students may receive only one scholarship through the Academic Scholarship Program.</p>
<p>So, does that mean that the OOS portion of tuition is NOT covered? Just the instate amount? </p>
<p>It seems that with tuition room, board, and a $1000 annual stipend plus a $2000 official NMF scholarship it seems there wouldn’t be more than ~$2k out of pocket annually to cover unless the fee structure (or some other unknown direct or indirect cost) is really high - the $53/credit hour class seems like it could be one of those fees. </p>
<p>As an earlier post said, there seems to be a disconnect of about $7k/year between the value of the NMF scholarship package and the COA. I’m just trying to understand what accounts for the discrepancy. </p>
<p>If there is anyone that has had experience as an out of state student with the NMF package or the Patterson scholarship only potion I would love to hear how it played out financially.</p>
<p>Hopefully, we can get clarification on the UK NMF scholarship for OOS students. </p>
<p>Since the UK NMF scholarship has changed in recent years, it’s hard to know for sure. Even if a student got X last year or a previous year, who knows what it is this year…as we know these things can change year to year.</p>
<p>These sound like good opportunities for NMF, but what would UK academics be like for an OOS student in general? Are they trying to increase the number of OOS students?</p>
<p>I just talked to a lovely woman in the University of Kentucky academic scholarships office. The Patterson Scholarship (National Merit) DOES fully cover OOS tuition (they only put the instate tuition specific $$ amount in the description to avoid confusion for instate students.) Fees are additional but they average $533/semester. </p>
<p>So: Four-year renewable award covers the cost of tuition (both instate and out of state,) room and board, $1,000 yearly stipend, an iPad2®, and $2,000 for a Summer Education Abroad program.</p>
<p>The additional $2000 UK National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarship is broken up over 4 years, so that’s an another $500 a year.</p>
<p>They are in the process of building a new Honors Living/Learning community with an expected completion date of Spring 2013 and fully expect to move in new students in Fall of 2013.</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying the scholarship package RobD!
My son like’s the idea of state flagships and getting out of the south (I know Kentucky is still south- but not relative to Georgia!) so we will probably visit the school this Fall. I’ll post our experience when we get back.</p>