New Merit Scholarship Packages at Miami - 1/28/10

Miami University is expanding merit scholarship packages to recognize student achievement and to continue to make a high quality education more affordable for students.

Both in-state and out-of-state students in next fall’s first-year class will benefit.

Miami’s merit scholarship packages for Ohio residents offer guaranteed aid on this scale: Students with a 30 or higher ACT composite (or 1330 or higher SAT: critical reading + math (CR+M)) + 3.70 GPA or above on 4.0 scale will receive $6,500; those with 28 or 29 ACT composite (or 1250-1320 SAT CR+M) + 3.70 or above GPA will receive $4,500; students with 26 or 27 ACT composite (or 1170-1240 SAT CR+M) + 3.70 GPA or above will receive $2,000.

High-achieving out-of-state students will receive merit scholarship packages as such: students with 30 or higher ACT composite (or 1330 or higher SAT CR+M) + 3.70 or above GPA on 4.0 scale will receive $9,000; those with a 28 or 29 ACT composite (or 1250-1320 SAT CR+M) + 3.70 or above GPA will receive $7,000; students with a 26 or 27 ACT composite (or 1170-1240 SAT CR+M) + 3.70 GPA or above will receive $4,500.

These awards are renewable for up to four years.

“Miami attracts intelligent, involved students who progress profoundly once they’re here and become engaged with each other and the world,” said John Skillings, special assistant to the president for enrollment management. “In offering more direct aid for academic merit, we’re letting students know from the start how much we value them as part of the Miami community.”

Students may hear early about merit aid but should know that they will receive full financial aid award packages in late March.

While applications will be counted for several days after the Feb. 1 deadline, to date, Miami has received another record number of applications for the fall class, nearing 16,000 for a desired class size of 3,450-3,550. The high caliber of the class (rank, GPA, volunteerism, activity) is on par with previous years and the representation of diverse students is higher.