National Merit "First Choice" Dilemma

mozika
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:15:35 +0000

@TheBigChef from my understanding: putting the match school as his first choice might result in him getting NM scholarship from that school and if he decides to go to another school, he will forfeit that scholarship and also will not be in the running for NM scholarship from the corp. itself (i.e. $2500 - which he could win if he doesn’t have a school that gives its own NM scholarship listed as his first choice); i think once the scholarship gets awarded - it can’t be changed; on the other hand $2500 is not guaranteed and if he goes to the match school he will be better off with that school scholarship. So it’s a gamble.