How does the schools internal scholarship board determine its aid decisions and amounts?
It comes down to how you come across in the application, in most senses. It’s the presentation you put forth in your essays and your experiences and your interview that we’re looking at, from a merit standpoint. Anyone who’s getting into the University of Michigan has high merit; I mean, they’ve been able to kind of cross that bar. But to really stand out in that pool comes across in the application, and that’s one of the things we look at. Then, there are some specific named scholarships that are included in our bulletin. You don’t apply specifically for those, though. We allocate them out.
