National Merit corporate scholarship?

bethievt
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:31:39 +0000

My son will potentially qualify for a NM corporate scholarship (huge multi-national his Dad works for gives 20 in US–no idea how they decide who to award). NMSC says son has to pick a #1 school in order to qualify for the award, though he can change it later. The person I spoke to said that March 1st they would send out first notification to colleges that they had been selected as student’s #1 choice for corporate award . If you get corporate award, you can’t get school award, but the NM person said it might send a positive message to the school selected. Six of my son’s colleges give NM awards, suggesting they value this. He’s only so far been admitted to one of these schools. I’m sure there must be a strategy here, but this is the most confusing thing that we’ve yet encountered in the college search process. Any thoughts?