<p>* I think some parents of NHRP scholars feel disappointed when these “outside the NMSC” scholarships are not offered to their children.
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<p>I think if to qualify for NHRP a student has to be at least half Hispanic, more schools might offer those big scholarships. I know many kids who are 1/4 Hispanic and 3/4 White, and none identify much or at all with their Hispanic heritage. </p>
<p>I think that when some of these schools used to offer the NHRP scholarships, the recipients were largely mostly White kids who were only a quarter Hispanic and didn’t really offer any diversity since they often didn’t identify with their Hispanic heritage. </p>
<p>I don’t think schools really want to give big scholarships to kids who are really mostly White (and identify mostly as White) and whose scores are well below the NMSF cutoffs. At that point, it’s not really fair to give those students big scholarships, while an all White kid who just missed NMSF cutoff gets nothing.</p>
<p>I think if you had to be at least half Hispanic, then more schools might resume offering the big scholarships.</p>