<p>Be aware that when we say that you can only receive ONE…we mean only ONE official NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>However, you can receive more than one IF the other one isn’t “official.”</p>
<p>For example, when Bama offers its big NMF/NA scholarship, the only part that is “official” is around $1000 (it may have changed this year, so not sure of exact amount). So, a student can get an Official Corporate award of $2500 from parent’s employer AND still get the Bama NMF/NA award - minus the official part. Bama increased the stipend part of their NMF scholarship by 2500 this year, partly to avoid the issue of a student losing a NMCorp award.</p>
<p>My older son took that Bama NMF award, and also got a 2500 official NMF year award from H’s company, so he only lost $1000 from Bama (the official amount at the time), but gained 2500.</p>
<p>As for the “one time $2500 awards” from NMF. I don’t know how those work for NA, but for NMFs the NMCorp will award a one time 2500 award to 2500 NMFs (out of 15,000). Supposedly, the students are split between genders and spread out amongst the states.</p>
<p>No, all of the 3 different types of official awards do not all come out on the same date. If you go to NMCorp’s website, there usually is a schedule.</p>
<p>To get a college award, you do need to name a first choice school. Usually, you don’t have to name one til May 1st. However, some schools require them to be named earlier.</p>