I am new to college application process. I was wondering how are the merit scholarships at Michigan. How many do they give? What are the typical stats to receive them? When do they announce them? We are OOS by the way. I appreciate your responses. Thank you
They do have many scholarships, but only around the top 2% admitted students get it. The major one at LSA is $5k-$10k per year for instate and $10k-$20k for OOS per year. For CoE, it is $8k for instate and $20k for OOS per year. There are also dozens of full tuition to full ride. If look at the admission stat, you will see the top 2% would have near perfect stat and strong EC. Winners should be notified around late February to early March. Most merit scholarships are automatically considered if you applied EA and admitted before February. A few require separated application.
@billcsho , thank you so much for your response. It is very informative and helpful.
It’s very difficult to be in the top 2%. 4.0 GPA and 36 ACT’s are pretty common, especially in engineering.There are many smaller scholarships in the range of around $1500 too, which definitely helps.
Yeah. I know someone with perfect scores and GPA and yet not getting it, but also someone with ACT 35 plus other perfect stat received it (botg in CoE). So it is not strictly by stat. They probably look at the top 5% or so candidates and offer to around half of them based on other criteria.
Is EA a must for scholarship considerations. I applied on Nov 1st. However my application went in a few minutes late. My portal still says EA requested. All my scores and recommendations were sent in way earlier
It is not a must as the cut off is by admission date, however, it would be hard to be admitted by Feb 1 if not applied EA.