<p><a href=“http://nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf[/url]”>http://nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you look at page 38 of the report, they list colleges that enrolled NMFs. NAF are further down the report, but they don’t break that down in the same way.</p>
<p>To the left of a college name is the # of freshman NMF scholars enrolled, which is not necessarily the # of NMFs. At scholarship schools like ASU, it does tell you the number of NMFs since every NMF there gets sponsored either by the school or by getting NMSC or corporate scholarship. ASU had 97 NMFs that year. To the right in () is # of scholars sponsored by the college. That’s 75. So 22 kids got the NMSC $2500 or a corporate award. But all 97 get the full tuition/fees unofficial scholarship for NMFs.</p>
<p>Northwestern has 236. That also should be all their NMFs, since they give their NMFs automatic $2K/yr official award. 169 are sponsored by Northwestern. So 67 got their awards from NMSC or corporations. I wonder if all 67 had to take the bad deal and forgo the rest of the $8K. What I haven’t seen written about is if one can turn down a corporate award to keep a better college award. It seems like it should be easier to accomplish than turning down NMSC but who knows. If anyone has experience with this at a school with a policy like NW’s, please post about it.</p>
<p>Then there are schools like Harvard, with 268, none sponsored by Harvard, and unlisted several hundred probably, of NMF who didn’t get NMSC or corporate award, so aren’t NMF scholars.</p>