NM Semi-Finalists Colleges of Interest?

celesteroberts
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:34:15 +0000

@isaelijohjac, I just noticed your posts.Thanks. No, my D is at ASU. I have an S15 looking at colleges now. I can’t get him interested in UK, though he did apply. He is all gung-ho about UMN-TC. Went for another visit Friday. They had an all day event for NMSFs and he did other things on his own also. Attended a chemistry class. Ate in a regular dining hall. None of that deterred him, loves it more than ever. Came home with a big bag of Gopher clothes.

He applied at MSU too, may visit there soon. The scholarship at MSU is complicated. Part of it is for OOS NMFs. That is the rm/bd + $4,000/yr stipend + $750-$2,000/yr official NMF money. And the room part is on campus only, so need to live in on campus apts after 1st year for that.

The rest of scholarship is stats based academic merit. It is 2 steps. First get admitted to honors. Requirements: top 5%+ (30 or 1360.) But they may let kids in with somewhat lower stats. Once in honors, the automatic OOS scholarship is $15,000/yr plus the study abroad funds. But if in addition you have 33 or 1500 or NMSF, that is replaced by the 2-year $2500/yr professorial assistantship and OOS tuition waiver.(which is more than $15,000/yr, maybe $18,000-$20,000.)

It’s worded in a way that makes it seem as though NMSF is good enough for this 2nd part of scholarship. Need not make NMF, I think. Overall though, to get the whole MSU package, need decent grades as well as National Merit status. If you don’t get into honors you won’t get a big chunk of the money.

Then there is a competition in February to get even more money- Alumni Distinguished Scholarships. Full-ride, full-tuition and some on the order of $2,000, can’t recall exactly.