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

mom2collegekids
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:47:13 +0000

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However, to be safe just put them down now and you are good for that scholarship. If later you decide you would rather go for the Minnesota scholarship, you have until May 31st to designate them because that is the final NMSC deadline. HOWEVER, in the case of changing to Minnesota, you MUST NOT still have SD School of Mines designated as first choice anytime in May because then NMSC would award you that scholarship (they start mailing the college-sponsored scholarship awards on May 1st) and you would then be ineligible for the Minnesota scholarship. To avoid this situation, you should either designate Minnesota or change to undecided by the end of April and then you would have until May 31 to change to Minnesota.

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this sounds right to me, too.

I don’t know how Mines would know about the Feb 1st selection, though. But, I think another school (USC??) also has an early req’t…again, don’t know how they know.

Definitely remove Mines as your choice BEFORE May 1st if you want to change to another school.