Sam Lee

looking at hawkette's first list again in post #27, it seems that the % correlates very well with the upper 75-percentile SAT rank. But there's one exception: WashU.
i wonder how WashU did last year. their NMS number this year doesn't seem to match their posted SAT score range for last year. it's possible that they just have a down year but i am also curious if they have been posting stats for admits instead of enrollees. It would be interesting to see if their range this year is consistent with the # of NMS they got.

hawkette

For the 2005-06 year, Wash U had 241 total NMS students (13.1% of their enrolled class). Of these, 175 were school-sponsored and 66 were not.

Wash U’s numbers this year were 204 total (11% of enrolled class). Of these, 154 were school sponsored and 50 were not.

Damaris

Remember that the numbers are skewed by the differences in regional PSAT cut-offs and the fact that the Northeast draws a huge number of boarding school students, who have the highest National Merit cut-offs in the country. I bet that Harvard, Yale and Princeton would all rank at the top if the ranking was based solely on PSAT scores higher than 220.

rssll5

On several of the lists i've seen,

Texas A&M have been in the top on number of NM finalists enrolled.

yet i can find nothing on what they do for finalists. their website is confusing.

Christian2

Texas A&M recruits NMF's heavily. They put together very good scholarship packages, they invite NMF to visit them by paying a good portion of the travel cost. They allow them into their honors program with good benefits. From purely a financial standpoint they are very good to NMF's

thisoldman

interesting. I would make a good guess that S, NMS, made, Zero affect on CMU's SAT range or to the success of its students.

cooledge

Okay, this is in reference to a post I think on the first page, but that poster mentioned that the reason there aren't so many NMFs at Harvard is because there are many ACT students, which disqualifies them.
What's an "ACT student"? I'm from the midwest, a bastion of the ACT, and I'm an NMF. I confused.

JohnC613

why is emory so low?

Patrice

My son is an NMF and chose to go to Texas A&M not only because the university offered him a great deal of scholarship money (easily covering 80% or more of his costs), but also because it gave him leadership training opportunities and automatic admission into the business honors program. Other state schools probably offer similar advantages to NMFs. If my son had gone to an Ivy League school, he would have just been one of the pack. At a competitive state school, he is a stand-out who has a chance of getting leadership experience on campus while still getting an excellent education through the honors curriculum. Web sites usually don't provide complete information for an NMF student. Students should contact an honors recruiter at every campus of interest and ask for more complete information about what NMFs are offered.

Texas Soccer Mom

The University of Texas at Austin ranks second among universities and colleges enrolling the most National Merit Scholars. In the university’s 2007 entering class, there were 283 freshman Merit Scholars, second only to Harvard University where there were 285.

Texas waives nonresident tuition for out-of-state and foreign students who receive a scholarship of $1,000 a year. This waiver is designed to provide Texas universities with a recruitment incentive to attract top-ranked students. The number of students who may receive the waiver is capped at 5 percent of each institution’s total enrollment.

The state’s two flagship institutions, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M, both offer out-of-state tuition waivers to National Merit Scholars.
This is a great deal if you are accepted into UT Austin’s engineering or business schools, both ranked in the top ten in the nation. Texas residents receive $13,000 spread over 4 years if they are NMS winners at UT Austin and about this amount plus an additional $24,000 at Texas A&M. Top engineering students (generally those who qualify for the honors program) may apply for an additional competitive scholarship up to that amount at UT Austin as well.

Christian2

UT Austin is a great school. Its scholarship to OOS NMF, howver, cannot compare with some other Texas schools, both public and private.