How does National Merit Scholarship work?

[mazewanderer]

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Of course, should my son become a finalist and then he gets accepted at, and decided to attend, a school that offers a full ride, I can assume the corporate scholarship doesn’t get applied.

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Schools, in general, will treat the corporate scholarship as part of their scholarship package. For example, a couple years ago ASU’s NM scholarship was $23,000 per year for four years regardless whether you get a corporate scholarship or not. My son got a $2000 a year from the company that I work for and ASU just add $21,000 to make it $23,000. If he did not get the corporate scholarship, he will get the full $23,000 from ASU.

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A student can actually get both, but in an indirect way.

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<p>Unfortunately there is no one answer to this question. It depends on the college i.e. varies from college to college. Each colleges treat receipt of NMSC’s own and corporate scholarships differently.</p>

<p>There is an excellent thread based on Schokoldae’s reserach that I would advise all those interested to read. It gives examples of how different colleges treat this subject and gives actual examples from various colleges.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1103731-how-choose-your-first-choice-college-national-merit-purposes.html?highlight=schokolade[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1103731-how-choose-your-first-choice-college-national-merit-purposes.html?highlight=schokolade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Some allow you to add them on, some treat it is as either or etc. Rather than repeat his findings, I would suggest that reading the whole thread would be beneficial and will answer many questions that people have on the NMSC process and NM scholarships.</p>