D, who was National Merit Scholar in 2017, is a Chancellor’s scholar at Vandy. She only got $2000 per year on NM., as she also got the big scholarship.
I also agree with @“aunt bea” , kids at NMSF mostly have 4.0 and made National AP scholar by their junior year, at least in our school (we are PA Publlic school with total around 20 AP classes available). How are they going to decide which 15,000 move forward? GPA seems to be an easy and cut and dry criteria. Does OP daughter have any Bs since freshman? That can all part of consideration. I think they care about PSAT score, instead of SAT score in determining NMF and NMS. And they prefer test in single sitting instead of superscore.
Best of luck with your appeal!