<p>^I believe you can only accept one “official” NMSC scholarship. That would be either a university sponsored award (i.e. OSU’s Distinguished which includes the value of their $1K-$2K per year), the one-time $2500 scholarship, or a corporate sponsored scholarship. Since the $2500 offers go out around March 24 it is possible that NMSC could offer you that award even if they were in possession of an offer to you from OSU that wouldn’t be sent out until April 27, but I’m not sure how they’d handle that. I’ve heard of students being offered both and having to choose between the two, but whether or not NMSC was aware of a university sponsored offer prior to sending out the $2500 offer…who knows? In any case, even if you change designations late in the game after receiving a $2500 offer and then get a university sponsored offer from your new designee you’d still have to decide between those two offers since they’re both considered “official” NMSC scholarships. Generally, your best bet is usually to designate the school you stand to potentially get the best offer from (assuming you plan to attend there if the offer comes through) and change designees if things fall through with school #1. If you changed to Cincy after NMSC sent out an offer from OSU you might still be able to get an offer from them if time allowed. You’re only allowed to “accept” one, but they might send out more than one university sponsored if they receive more than one notification from sponsor schools. Not sure about the semantics of OSU’s scholarship either. It says you’re “given priority consideration” for their award if you designate them by March 1, not that you’re guaranteed that money. Could just be my pessimistic side reading too much into it. It is all definitely confusing though. We’re going through a lot of the same gyrations with D1 as she’s looking to finalize her decision.</p>