Could someone please help me clear up this "First Choice School" issue?

STEMFamily
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:08:08 +0000

Yes I believe you are correct, although it isn’t really the case that you get “offered” the NMSC part of scholarship before NMSC mails the award letter after May 1st. This school tells you that it will be included in their package but the offer of that part is not official until NMSC sends you a letter.

It is only the “official” parts that are subject to the NMSC rules of not being offered more than one scholarship. So I do think that if you had SD still listed as first choice on May 1st and NMSC sent you a letter and then you changed to UMN you would still get the unofficial part of UMN’s scholarship but definitely not the official part that is funneled through NMSC. However, the best thing would be not to put yourself in this position as you mentioned.