FAQ for the PSAT/SAT NMSF/NMF process.... :)

mathmomvt
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:38:38 +0000

Please remind me how the timing all works out on the selection of first choice school, and how that interacts with corporate and one-time scholarship opportunities.

The two schools my s19 has applied to that offer NM scholarships are Northeastern and RPI. Northeastern says “List as first choice by April 5 to receive updated scholarship by May 1; first group will be awarded in early March to EA applicants.” RPI doesn’t specify a date. My company also offers a small number of awards of 2K/year for 4 years. I believe that my son already listed Northeastern as his first choice, and he applied EA. I don’t want him to be awarded a Northeastern NMS before the one-time NM awards and the corporate awards are awarded, since those are more flexible, and my S is applying to many schools that don’t offer NM awards themselves, and the schools that give out larger awards will almost always still give the non-official part of their award, subtracting out what the student has been awarded from NMS another source (so they don’t lose out by getting awarded a different NM Scholarship first). Does he need to un-select Northeastern until those (corporate and one-time $2500) awards are given out, or are they awarded before that “early March” timeline so that it won’t matter?