<p>Has anyone been awarded the University Scholars award or any other merit scholarships?</p>
<p>I received a relatively small scholarship with my regular acceptance, but I am still waiting for the University Scholars award or a larger scholarship since I have to pay out of state tuition. I’ve seen mixed info on when the invitations are sent out ranging from early to mid February, but those aren’t really well defined time periods. It makes me a little anxious since I’d assume that you don’t get a letter if you didn’t get the scholarship similar to the honors program, but at least the honors program had a relatively defined period where you could expect the letter to come. With this I have no idea when I should assume that I didn’t get the scholarship or when it would make sense to contact admissions to clarify my application status. </p>
<p>My daughter got accepted to the honors college but she didn’t get any scholarship letter.
I have heard that being accepted into the honors college doesn’t guarantee a scholarship but at two other schools she was awarded scholarships and the honors program. </p>
<p>Same here. I got a scholarship when I was initially accepted to the university, but I didn’t get one with the honors college acceptance. I’ll be sure to post here if I hear back!</p>
<p>My daughter received an email that she is a finalist in the University Scholars program on Jan. 17th.</p>
<p>Many congratulations to you @mamag2855.</p>
<p>Has anyone received merit based scholarship letter yet? </p>
<p>Really freaking out about now. My son has a 3.48 un-weighted and a 4.28 weighted in IB with a 32 ACT and a 2120 SAT…I would think that those stats was scholarship worthy, but we hadn’t heard a thing yet.</p>
<p>i wonder if they will announce them on the day of the honors college reception.</p>
<p>I doubt it, that wouldn’t make a load of sense. We’re probably not going to bother going to the honors reception if we don’t hear about a scholarship by then. I really wanted to go to the school but its not worth paying nearly full out of state tuition. :(</p>
<p>Hopefully we will hear something by end of the month because I had heard that they review applications for merit scholarships in February. I would think anyone who was being consdered for the Scholars program would have been contacted already. Aside from that I don’t get the feeling that they give out big scholarships. </p>
<p>Last year, DS received a $4,000/year scholarship award. He had a 4.32 GPA, 35 ACT, very rigorous courseload and from a top ranked HS. He received 4 full tuition scholarship offers from other schools (Pitt, Miami, Minnesota, Alabama) plus half to 2/3 scholarship awards from most of the other schools he applied to. Perhaps GMU thought he would probably not attend but they were in the running until he did the numbers. We are in-state. It was cheaper to go OOS where all his scholarship $$ covered all his expenses.</p>
<p>A great school that loses out of state students by not being competitive with merit aid.
Too bad…</p>
<p>no comment further </p>
<p>We did attend the honors reception. I think this school does have a lot to offer especially for instate students. It depends specifically what opportunities a student is looking for. Planning on attending department orientation to learn more about specifics of the schools program. </p>
<p>no comment</p>
<p>I got $4K per year but I want to know if it is possible to get that more competitive with offers from other schools. (Drexel $14K p/y, Rutgers $8K p/y$</p>
<p>We are in the same boat but I don’t believe they match offers. You can try and ask but I doubt they would do that. </p>