National Merit & Northwestern

kyw123
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:29:20 +0000

I am fortunately a happy NU EDer. I am also “fortunately” a winner of a National Merit $2500 Scholarship (received the letter two days ago).

I was hoping to receive NU’s $2000/yr (renewable for 4 yrs) for National Merit Finalist. However, I just called NU and was told that I can’t receive NU’s NMF scholarship even if I would decline NMSC offer.

This NU policy is unfair to those who had been “fortunately/unfortunately” selected by NMSC to win that $2500 scholarship. NU office acknowledged that they faced the same question every year, but “policy is policy”.

I am still a happy NU 2014er!