Has anybody in California gotten a notification at home?
Hopefully FL gets it tomorrow.
@timbercreek16 my daughter got called down for her certificate today too! So FL is getting them… ask your guidance counselor!
Nothing from the school yet in PA, but snow shortened school days this week may have something to do with that, as well as potentially slowing down the mail.
In IL and the received my certificate from my counselor today
@Icgusa I had a 3.79 but no “c” s. 2240 Sat
No word for my DD in NJ yet but circumstances have conspired against notification. No school Friday because of snow, crazy, unplanned delayed opening on Monday due to flooding of the road out to school, no school yesterday because of flooding (she goes to school basically at the beach at the end of a narrow peninsula, sand spit really, with only one road on/off and new moon, storm surge high tide right at the start of the school day), and today her guidance counselor was absent. Maybe tomorrow! I don’t think she even knows that notifications are due out.
Does anyone know where I could find a list of colleges that give awards to finalists? My daughter has already accepted an offer of admission from her EA school and when I Google “national merit” and the name of the college I am unable to come up with anything relevant (which may be the answer right there).
The NMSC website does a great job of obfuscating all helpful information…
^^^ and could anyone give me a quick tutorial on the “small money” scene - not the large awards (like what Alabama gives), but the $500 - $2500 awards that a winner could take to any college?
sponsor college list: http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_Sponsor_Leaflet.pdf
instructions: http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf
Thank you @pickpocket - this is one of things I was looking for but could not find. DD’s college is not on that list. Does that mean that she still could be given an award by NM directly if neither my nor my H’s employer are on the corporate partner list?
GnocchiB, I think the list you seek is this http://nmfscholarships.yolasite.com/ Be aware that these may be dated but they’ll be directionally right
@GnocchiB the school name might help. Drexel pulled theirs FWIW. I hope for her sake it’s not theirs. If it is Drexel, I can try to find my old post about it.
Hi! GnocchiB. Thanks again for clarifying the town where Denison is located, on that other thread. Nice bumping into you 2x in one day. Congratulations!
My DS just texted me that he rec’d an email notification of Finalist status, here in MN! His college does not give a lot in NMF scholarship, but every little bit helps. I would just Google the name of your child’s school and “National Merit Scholarship” and you should find out pretty quickly, if they have a special scholarship or not. Many super selective schools do not, from what I’ve read. My nephew is at Yale and gets zip!
Thanks @MidwestMomTo2 and @morningside95 - it’s Princeton and Google does not reveal any Princeton-sponsored awards. Would there still be any chance that National Merit itself would give an award - not sponsored by Princeton or an employer?
I guess what I’m asking is about the award types – there are (1) school-sponsored ones as on the PDF; (2) corporate sponsored ones (also on the PDF provided by @pickpocket ); but are there any that NMSC itself funds? Is that what the one-time $2500 awards are, that will be announced on March 24th?
Does attending a college not on the list of sponsoring colleges mean that a finalist cannot receive and use a $2,500 award?
Sorry to be so ignorant. I was a NMF back in the day and I recall it being very opaque then … I don’t think that 30 years has changed anything about the way the NMSC conducts its business or communicates with its Finalists!
@GnocchiB - You have broken the code. The super selective schools rarely give NMFs scholarships because they don’t need to compete for those students, they commonly draw from that pool. My DD is headed to Rice and they ended minuscule NMF awards several years ago for that reason. If your child does not qualify for a corporate sponsored award, the only remaining option is the base NMSC award which is a one time award of $2,500. By my calculations, if there are 15,000 Finalists, 5,000 of whom get corporate sponsored or official college sponsored awards under the ambit of NMSC, that means there will be 10,000 remaining Finalists competing for 2,500 NMSC awards of $2500. Tough competition for not many dollars, but the awardees get to claim on future resumes that they are National Merit Scholars, not just Finalists.
@morningside95 Your son in MN got an email today from college board? Saying he was a NM Finalist?
@GnocchiB I assume Princeton does not give out NMF scholarships, but it is my understanding that your student would definitely be eligible for the official National Merit Scholarship: $2500, but it is just for 1 year, and you cannot combine it with any other NF Scholarship. Here is a link to some info: http://www.nationalmerit.org/faq_scholarship.php
Good luck!
OU has posted NM scholarship info on kids’ financial aid portals-- wonder if they are doing this on presumed NMF status or if they have the final list?
@GnocchiB Correct: Princeton gives neither small-money NM-administered, nor big money scholarships to NMFs. You are, however, still in the running for one of the 2500 one-time awards of $2500.
Congratulations on your D’s acceptance to one of the great universities in the world. That’s way more valuable than NM $$ in my opinion. If my son (hopefully NMF) is admitted to one of his target schools he likely will get $20K per year or so. But I’d give that up in a second if he is admitted to one of his reach schools (1 Ivy, 3 “top 30”) which offer no NM money. That quality of school is worth way more in the long run. Again that is just my opinion.