{"id":1014,"date":"2015-11-16T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2015-11-16T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:58:49","slug":"maryland-grad-scholarship-offers-set-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-grad-scholarship-offers-set-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Grad Scholarship Offers Set New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Class Of 2015 Receives More Than $1.3 Billion In Offers<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s class of 2015 received a record dollar amount of scholarship offers to continue their education, according to the results of a new Maryland State Department of Education survey, released today as part of the American Education Week celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Students received more than $1.32 billion in scholarship offers, easily surpassing the class of 2014\u2019s record total of $1.17 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPostsecondary education has become a necessity in most fields, and every dollar counts for students who are continuing their studies,\u201d said Interim State Superintendent of Schools Jack R. Smith. \u201cScholarships can make the difference between attending college or missing out.\u00a0 Our goal, as a state, is to provide every high school student with the foundation to follow their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 17,452 graduates received offers last year \u2013 about one-third of the 2015 graduating class of 51,563.\u00a0 The scholarships included more than 100 National Merit Finalists and nearly 400 scholarship offers from Ivy League institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland high school graduates often have a leg up on the students who complete their education in other states.\u00a0 For example, Maryland\u2019s public school system ranks at or near the top in several achievement categories tracked by <em>Education Week<\/em>, the nation\u2019s leading education publication.\u00a0 In addition, the State has ranked number one in the nation for nine years running in the percentage of graduates receiving high scores (3-5) on the Advanced Placement (AP) exams.\u00a0 Many of those students receive college credit based on those exam results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Of 2015 Receives More Than $1.3 Billion In Offers<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nMaryland\u2019s class of 2015 received a record <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-grad-scholarship-offers-set-new-record\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}