<p>Automatic.</p>
<p>As GreatWhiteNorth said, automatic. The adcom lady that spoke to us during our tour stressed how important those essays are. She said the scholarship committee reads the same app and same essays.</p>
<p>Another day, another envelope. It was a very nice congrats letter from the President of The University of Michigan. No mention of merit aid. Sigh.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping the next envelope is stuffed with $100 bills.</p>
<p>I got the same letter. I am fairly certain the wording hasn’t changed since my sister was admitted, so I took the “warmth” of the letter with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I will now pester the admissions office with a phone call to see when they begin sending scholarship letters…</p>
<p>What?! I haven’t gotten anything but the acceptance package T_T</p>
<p>Anyways please let us know what info you get when you call them :)</p>
<p>Thanks for calling them smart.cookie.</p>
<p>Molly sez:</p>
<p>"The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That’s what I want
That’s what I want, yeah
That’s what I want</p>
<p>You’re lovin’ gives me a thrill
But you’re lovin’ don’t pay my bills
Now give me money
That’s what I want
That’s what I want, yeah
That’s what I want"</p>
<p>smart.cookie - could you let us know what they tell you about merit aid?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my family doesn’t qualify for financial aid at UM since we’re in-state but some merit aid would be nice and I’d feel less guilty about my parents paying for me. :3</p>
<p>I’ll call tomorrow. I called at 4:57 today but their answering machine thought it was 5 pm, which is after office hours.</p>
<p>Within a couple of months of my acceptance, I received the $1500 Regents Merit Scholarship. I thought that would be all the scholarships I would be receiving from U of M, but in late August, literally less than two weeks before I moved in, I got another letter informing me that I had also received another scholarship, the Glen and Rita Phelps Scholarship, for $5000/yr, not bad. I believe they send out the letters for some of the 5000-20000/yr scholarships during the summer, after they’re sure you’re going to come here. 
So even if your initial award isn’t very much, if you do decide that U of M is a good fit for you and you would like to come here even if the cost is slightly higher than you would like, if you’re pretty well-qualified you could score a sweet (and in my case, unexpected) scholarship. I think the same thing happened for a girl who lives on my floor, she got a scholarship she didn’t expect and didn’t even think she deserved, which reduced the cost to that of in-state tuition.</p>
<p>You’re from Canada?</p>
<p>Answer from admissions office: notifications for big awards (ie Stamps and Shipman) begin in Dec., and other scholarship notifications begin in Dec. as well.</p>
<p>Thanks smart.cookie</p>
<p>Merry Christmas
Happy Hannukah
or just a really happy December.</p>
<p>Thanks man, uhh just wondering if they said we’d hear my mail, email, or wolv access.</p>
<p>My son heard about his LS&A Dean’s scholarship a couple year’s ago in a single page letter. In fact, the envelope looked like the run of the bulk mail information and sat unopened for a day.</p>
<p>Chinaismine:</p>
<p>The eligibility requirements state that you need to be a resident of Canada, but obviously I’m not and U of M knows it. (I’m paying in-state tuition!) Despite being a permanent resident of America, I still got a scholarship I didn’t think I was even eligible for. Who knows, maybe they didn’t have any decently-achieving Canadian residents this year, so they gave it to the next best thing, a Canadian citizen. The moral is, scholarships are like a chocolate box from Forrest Gump, you never know what you’re gonna get, and sometimes they all get eaten before you can get to them. :P</p>
<p>Still nothing. But happy Thanksgiving all! (I’m trying to keep this thread from getting buried within the forum)</p>
<p>I haven’t heard anything either, but I hope I hear something in early December!</p>
<p>With apologies to the late John Lee Hooker and John Lennon…</p>
<p>The best things in life are free
But you can keep 'em for the birds and bees.
Now gimme merit money (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want), oh-yeh,
That’s what I want.</p>
<p>Your acceptance letter gave me a thrill
But your letter don’t pay my out of state tuition bills.
Now gimme merit money (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want), oh-yeh,
That’s what I want.</p>
<p>Merit money don’t cover everything it’s true.
What it does get I can use!
Now gimme merit money (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want), oh yeh,
That’s what I want.</p>
<p>do you guys think OOS students or instate students get more merit aid? Also we don’t have to do anything more to be considered for merit aid because the application itself is the app for scholarships right?</p>
<p>To your first question, more total merit aid is usually given to instate students as they are the majority of the applicant pool, but larger aid is given to top out of state students to attract them to the school. Michigan is notorious for giving remarkably little merit aid, as are other top public schools, so merit aid cannot be counted on. </p>
<p>To your second question, you do not need to do anything in addition to applying to the university to be considered for all merit awards. The only scholarship you would need to interview for would be the Shipman Scholarship, their top award (full ride).</p>