<p>what you say has truth, mamabear, but it’s all in the lingo. what you’re talking about is the “college sponsored” NM scholarship which is $2k annually or something like that. Money that NM doles out or that corporations dole out THROUGH the NM program.</p>
<p>What I’m talking about are full-ride (tuition, fees, books, room, board, etc) scholarships that a college offers to NM Finalists…but it’s not part of the NM scholarship program, per se. Colleges have their “drop dead dates” where you have to have them listed as #1 by that date, or their previous offer is null and void.</p>
<p>THe NM corp can not manage or control what a school offers in the way of full ride programs (read their website), but only with the (I think piddly) $2K annual offers of money. Heck, that barely pays for books and a parking permit nowadays.</p>
<p>It’s not well-publicized, but if you read between the lines and ask a lot of questions, NM funding becomes a big game of strategy.</p>