National Merit Scholarship

Cosmological
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:48:14 +0000

If I were to be a National Merit Scholar (I am not, I am a sophomore), and I won the $2500, would it only be applicable as a scholarship if I applied to a school in the US, or could it also be applied to any international school?

Or, is it not even a scholarship, is it just a $2,500 prize?