National Merit Scholarship

camomof3
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:06:31 +0000

@Athena, yes this was a problem for students last year (it wasn’t the year before during D’s admit cycle). Students reported that they were stuck with the $2500 one-time NMS award instead of the USC NMS 1k for 4 years. Keep trying to get in touch with USC during the next few weeks (you have some time until 5/1). If you are in the area, even better, drop in. If you are coming for an admitted student event, there will be financial aid reps there to help.

@eesachs-- not sure if you have to name USC before it shows up in your package. D already had named USC before April. You definitely need that in your whole package to make a decision. Try and contact financial aid in the next couple of weeks (this will take some patience on your part to get through). Hopefully other posters who didn’t name USC early will have more info for you.