<p>Their willingness to bend so far to scoop in a NMF at this late date suggests they might also be willing to take a NMSF in your son’s situation.</p>
<p>You can try, but I doubt that the leniency in regards to NMF applications would apply to NMSFs. The point of the big NMF scholarships is to be able to state: we have XX NMFs at our school. they can’t do that with someone who isn’t a NMF. At one point, not sure if this still exists, but a school’s ranking was positively affected by enrolling NMFs.</p>
<p>It’s very unfortunate when someone doesn’t make NMF over a silly reason like getting a couple of C’s while taking a very rigorous curriculum, while the resulting GPA is still high. </p>
<p>There’s no reason why NMCorp can’t have a system that allows two C’s as long as the overall GPA exceeds a 3.5. </p>
<p>Heck, theoretically, a student could be Val or Sal of his school and have a C or two on his record if his GPA is still higher than his classmates. </p>
<p>Bama is another school that is still awarding NMF scholarships to NMFs who still want to apply. But, they’re not going to give that award to someone who doesn’t make NMF. </p>
<p>Awarding big NMF scholarships is all about the bragging rights.</p>