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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3 kids are older (graduated already) but 2 got b/k and 1 got presidential scholarship. All 3 went to MCPS magnets. They all had almost perfect scores.[/quote]

My son is not at a magnet or a W school (think second-tier MCPS), but has 1560 SAT, 4.0 UW GPA and will have 4.82 ish WGPA at time of application. He'll have taken 10 APS total after junior year, has pretty good extracurriculars and has been a varsity athlete since freshman year. Do you think he has any chance at getting merit from UMD?[/quote]

I think so. See the pp above whose kids got about $5k/yr merit from UMD. [/quote]

But $5k/yr is a drop in the college expense bucket. This generation of parents need to let go of the idea their kids are going to be funded by merit aid. It's a different world. [/quote]

I’m the PP with DC who got $5000/year in merit. It is actually half the tuition so I’d say it’s more than a drop in the bucket. Over 4 years it is $20,000. Actually, DC entered with so many AP credits that she is graduating in 3 years. My younger DC, who did not get merit, has 43 AP credits going in and will also graduate in 3.[/quote]

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