National Merit Finalist vs National Merit Scholar

STEMFamily
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:48:55 +0000

Corporate-Sponsored scholarship offers are already being received. The $2500 awards will be offered in late March. so Finalists should start receiving those soon. Offers of the official parts of the college-sponsored awards get mailed from NMSC starting May 1st.

@cchelp2019 Kentucky is one of those schools with very generous scholarships for National Merit Finalists from their own funds apart from NMSC. If your D had accepted the offer and committed to attend, she would have received notification of the official NMSC college-sponsored part in a letter from NMSC sometime after May 1st. That would have then made her a National Merit Scholar.