national merit scholarship finalist program

R.Aster
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:57:21 +0000

I can’t imagine all CAS applicants got the email or there would be more posts here
I speculate from the wording that they sent it to all folks that they are seriously considering for merit aid (stated to be 5% somewhere on nyu.edu)
The NMF validation query is presumably so that they can invite the NMFs into the Baird Program designed for them (see link above)
This NMF step may be needed due to the arcane methods NMSC apparently employs for distributing finalist names (I think NYU is only notified of those who selected it first choice, and then only 3/1, 4/1, 5/1 etc.)
Finally, and most importantly:

My son got the snailmail “Congratulations” letter this morning. He is very happy.


RA