How do they decide?

[mazewanderer]

<p>mom2collegekids you said.</p>

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Typically, corporate scholarships are given to the children of the employees of those corporations (usually, the corporations require this). So, if your parent works for a corporate sponsor, you have a good chance of getting one. So, it’s not really true that NMCorp decides who gets them. NMCorp can’t just give them to anyone they want.

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<p>As I had clarified in the post, every corporate sponsor has criteria and the criteria usually is that the students parent/s should work for that sponsor. So that is a given, to the get the scholarship from Boeing a parent needs to work for Boeing, for the Acushnet scholarship, parent/s need to work from Acushnet etc.</p>

<p>What happens is that NMSC staff first ensure that the student meets the criteria. If the number of students who meet the criteria are less than or equal to the number of awards, then everyone gets an award. If the number of students who meet the criteria are more than the number of awards, the NMSC staff decide who gets it. So NMSC staff make the decision on who gets the scholarship among those who meet criteria, they do not set the criteria, which is set by the sponsor. In case of Boeing, there is no decision, everyone gets its if the student’s parent works for Boeing or its subsidiaries. For some other sponsors there could be a decision. Hope this clarifies my statement. </p>

<p>If you look at the table on page 7 of the student guide, you will see that it clearly states that NMSC make the decision. Link given below to the student guide.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/student_guide.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/student_guide.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;