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03-25-2010, 08:16 AM
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#46 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
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My understanding musicquest is that if you receive the scholarship, you don't have to accept it. In my daughter's case, if she was offered the one-time $2500 scholarship, she would not accept it if she chose a NMSC school but would accept it if she chose a non-participating NMSC. But, I'm on this board trying to figure this all out just like you.
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03-25-2010, 06:19 PM
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#47 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 17
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1. Any NMS award will go to your account at the college you finally decided (5/1/2010)
2. If you have a corporate sponsor, you should have been noticed already (like my D)
3. Or you will get a notice for $2,500 from NMSC by now (Or oops, sorry)
4. Can you notice NMSC if you need to change your college choice by 5/1/2010
5. If your school offers you any scholarship, they will tell you if it's related to NMS and how much. (example from other post, if school portion is $1,000 total for NMS, you will get addition $1,500 from NMSC. Another example like SMU, they will give NMS as full tuition&fee less the resident tuition&fee of your state university, then you will not get any addition from NMSC)
6. If your school offers you other type of merit scholarship (not linked to NMSC), you will get the full corporate or NMSC ($2,500) even if you have full ride scholarship (8 semesters). You can use extra money in your account of summer programs.
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03-25-2010, 07:11 PM
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#48 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Missouri
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I believe that the notifications for the $2500 awards have just been mailed this week so the recipients of those might not have received those letters yet.
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03-26-2010, 08:46 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: SLC, UT => Yale 2014!!
Posts: 1,192
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^ Yep, according to their website, it was mailed out yesterday, on the 25th.
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03-26-2010, 10:07 PM
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#50 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Don't worry. As long as she names her top choice school she's fine. The scholarship office at the college will now how to deal with this. Call them if you have questions.
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03-27-2010, 01:17 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Groton School
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Will they mail you a letter if you don't win anything?
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03-27-2010, 04:58 PM
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#52 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 25
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Has anyone received anything? We are not far away but nothing came in the mail today.
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03-27-2010, 05:09 PM
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#53 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 3,810
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S got his letter today!  | |
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03-27-2010, 05:52 PM
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#54 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Got mine today! It was for MIT, though, where I was rejected... I need to change my top school choice.
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03-27-2010, 07:57 PM
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#55 | | Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: California-->Princeton '14
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yeah i got it!!!!
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03-27-2010, 10:43 PM
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#56 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Penn (Wharton) '14
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how long does mail take to get from illinois to pennsylvania? lol I'm hoping mine is on its way....
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03-29-2010, 12:05 AM
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#57 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Me too, stupefy. Except I'm in NJ.
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03-29-2010, 03:24 PM
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#58 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
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So if I haven't gotten a letter by now, does that mean I am not one of the recipients of the $2500 scholarship?
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03-29-2010, 03:26 PM
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#59 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008
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My son just got a scholarship offer from a corporate sponsor through National Merit. I wasn't aware that you could get such a thing if you were not an employee of these corporations.
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03-29-2010, 04:27 PM
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#60 | | Member
Join Date: May 2009 Location: Atlanta --> Chicago '14
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I received mine today (GA).
To be eligible for college-sponsored scholarships, we have to turn the NM $2500 down, correct? It feels so weird to pass up free money.
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