<p>Also, reading through your post again, you had accepted a scholarship last year as I understand and then turned it down. If I read the NMSC rules correctly, you cannot change your mind now, so you have lost the National Merit scholarship. In other words, once you accept a scholarship from a school, you cannot then name another school. Sorry but I strongly doubt if NMSC will even forward you name to a school again. Talk to NMSC before you talk to a school.</p>