<p>Has anyone heard any financial aid info yet? Or have any engineering scholarships come out recently?</p>
<p>D made Shipman semifinalist as well. Recd the letter 2 weeks ago. They called the day before mailing the invite to make sure she was still interested in Michigan. (Since it is extremely selective, many of the invitees have enough stats/ECs to get into Ivy/SM).</p>
<p>Her stats - ACT-36, SAT-2350, SATII (2-800, 1-790), GPA 4.0 UW, 7 AP (all 5), class rank on unweighted GPA 10/450 (school does not weight grades), a bunch of ECs with a few leadership positions. Currently dual enrolled at UMich (done Calc III with 4.0 & currently doing Calc IV). </p>
<p>Obviously (from the previous sentence), in-state for Michigan (in-town actually:-)</p>
<p>Haven’t heard of any other scholarships. The CoE lady who called about Shipman also indicated to D that she was “being considered” for other engineering scholarships as well.</p>
<p>In addition, D is a National Merit Finalist (this actually came after the Shipman invite) and a <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/852975-2010-presidential-scholar-nominees.html?highlight=presidential+scholar[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/852975-2010-presidential-scholar-nominees.html?highlight=presidential+scholar</a> (ACT score should give it away:-).</p>
<p>I don’t get it. What were EC’s? What did she have besides a 4.0 and a 36 ACT…The process honestly can’t be that statistically-based…</p>
<p>(to motion)</p>
<p>The LSA guy would be less likely to know when coe kids (or som or art&design or nursing or kinesiology etc.) receive their letters (includes karkri’s d and possibly ieieie’s s). Even if he did know, he would probably just have been answering your question based on LSA’s Shipman timeline.</p>
<p>^Ah, that’s right. I was under the assumption that they were all given out by the same scholarship committee, but I guess that assumption is no longer a valid one.</p>
<p>@motion: While I talked to someone on the phone and confirmed I received the Stamps scholarship, I still haven’t received the letter itself (I’m a nursing applicant). It seems to me that there is a significant lag time between when Michigan says they are sending something out and when it actually arrives.</p>
<p>I imagine that, if you are a shipman finalist, the letter might not have reached you yet, and that you could also be a stamps recipient and still have not received the letter. </p>
<p>I hope everything works out for you!</p>
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<p>motion - I couldn’t help but notice the contempt/disrespect in your post. Just like you decided to pick 2 stats out of all the stuff I posted, the Shipman selection committee picked whatever they were looking for and have found her deserving to be a Shipman semi-finalist and that’s what matters. I don’t see the need to seek your approval and so am not going to post her ECs here. Since the question was if anyone heard of any scholarship info, I thought posting this would be helpful; not to face a challenge.</p>
<p>Also, looks like each college has inputs into the selection process (<a href=“U-M Web Hosting”>U-M Web Hosting) but I doubt if the process is handled separately by each college. There are only 50 invitees for the entire incoming class and I doubt if one college does it without the other knowing.</p>
<p>Also, the lady called on a Sunday afternoon, and we received the letter on the following Tuesday (posted on Monday). No delays there.</p>
<p>Each separate school nominates a certain number of its admittees who are notified that they are semi-finalists. The number depends on the size of the school, so LSA has the most nominees, then engineering, etc. I know that Art & Design gets to nominate 3 of its admittees as it is a small school. The semi-finalists are invited to the Shipman weekend at the end of March. There are 50 invited. Of those, 15 will be offered full ride, the remaining will be awarded a smaller amount, in state it is $7500, out of state it is supplemented depending on the school. The selection at the weekend is done based on interviews done by the selection committee. Karkri, it is a very special honor, and you should be proud of your daughter’s accomplishments. The frustration of others waiting on merit aid is not, I am sure, meant to belittle her quite impressive statistics.</p>
<p>I apologize if I truly did come across that way, and I can tell you that I did not mean to do so. You simply provided the statistics that your daughter has obtained throughout her high school career (I picked the two that were required by the University of Michigan in their admissions process because I assumed that those are given the most weight in the process, though her SAT II scores and University Calc grades certainly are impressive), and, though they are impressive, I cannot see how they alone could have warranted her nomination. I asked what her EC’s were not so that I could approve of her selection, but rather so that I could, even if only slightly, gauge the competitiveness of the applicant pool for the scholarship this year based on her overall profile (minus the essays/recs, of course) and have a better view on whether or not I, ultimately, will be nominated. Again, congratulations to your daughter (I’m sure she deserves the nomination), and I sincerely apologize for any negative sentiments that may have arisen from my previous post. As well, thanks for notifying us that the first batch of nominations have been sent out.</p>
<p>To all the others waiting, best of luck to you all…I can certainly tell you that I’m going to be rather frustrated (and feel rather mediocre!) if I get nothing from UoM and don’t get invited as one of the finalists for WashU’s scholarships next week :(. Hopefully, everything works out for all of us in the end (as well, congrats smart.cookie! - and, out of curiosity, are you not going to attend Pitt now that you’ve essentially received a full tuition scholarship from UoM?)!</p>
<p>@ motion: </p>
<p>I really don’t know where I’m headed yet. The Stamps scholarship for nursing is (I think) $2,500 less than that for LSA, so it isn’t full tuition. Pitt is definitely still an option, as is Villanova (competing for the Presidential Scholarship there.) I guess I’ll be waiting until late March/early April like everyone else before making any commitments.</p>
<p>And motion, you are by no means mediocre. Your stats and ECs are awesome and certainly impressed Pitt. Mich gives out so little that it’s really just a crapshoot 
I was legitimately shocked that I got anything at all.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for their replies. </p>
<p>So it appears that:</p>
<p>1) At least two CC posters have received letters in the mail notifying them of Shipman semifinalist status;
2) No CC posters have yet received letters in the mail informing them of a Stamps scholarship;
3) No CC posters have yet received letters informing them of a Deans scholarship</p>
<p>Is that accurate?</p>
<p>So are scholarship notifications coming through snail mail and have you all filled out your FAFSA and CSS forms?</p>
<p>I did, but I haven’t seen anything on WA about fin aid yet.</p>
<p>motion - Apology accepted. As fredmar commented, I can see your frustration of not hearing anything about merit aid.</p>
<p>Without giving away her identity, I can say that typing my D’s first name into google, her full name shows up as the 3rd name in google suggest (the first 2 suggestions are a movie star:-). Including the last initial, her name shows up on the top. Again, I am not trying to be snooty, I am only trying to speak to her EC’s. She does no (physical) sports whatsoever though.</p>
<p>Good luck to you and all who are waiting for merit aid! As a family “stuck in the middle” (class), I can most certainly appreciate the frustration of having to pay full-sticker for college.</p>
<p>Fortunately for me, D has qualified so far for scholarship competitions for 4 of the 5 colleges she has been accepted into so far. (the 5th does not have a competition, they did offer a 12k OOS scholarship though). Whether she’ll eventually win any big money, is yet to be seen.</p>
<p>spaceunion - we filled out FAFSA (EFC more than IS costs for Umich); we submitted CSS after receiving the Shipman letter. I believe the Shipman scholarship has nothing to do with FAFSA or CSS.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, D does not want to apply to any of the several colleges that guarantee a full-ride for being an NM Finalist :-(</p>
<p>karkri-Did the people who called tell her that she had qualified for the scholarship over the phone? I am just wondering because I received a phone called a week or so ago from U of M seeing if I was still interested, but no one ever mentioned anything about recieving a scholarship. I haven’t recieved anything in the mail either.</p>
<p>No one at my school has heard anything about scholarships (excpet for the ones sent out months ago for Regents and CoE) and I would be surprised if no one from my school qualified for one.</p>
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<p>Yes, as I mentioned in my previous posts in this thread. However, since it was my D who talked to the person, I can’t tell you verbatim what they talked. Per D later, they did tell her she was being actively considered for Shipman as well as other scholarships (I don’t know if they actually told her she qualified for the scholarship).</p>
<p>From the LSA Scholarship web site:</p>
<p>“Notification: Scholarship offers will be made the first week of February, March, and April, respectively.”</p>
<p>A Theory: Shipman semifinalist notices went out around the first of February. Because they require an interview they were sent out first. All other scholarship notices will be sent out the first of March or the first of April.</p>
<p>Does this sound plausible?</p>
<p>They all weren’t sent out. They’re sent out on a rolling basis until the end of February.</p>