<p>That should not be the issue since the school can always get around it. My son is attending ASU with the $23,000 per year NMF scholarship. The official $2000/yr. is a Corporate NM scholarship from my employer while $21,000 is from ASU. For those students without a Corporate scholarship ASU will give them the whole $23,000. A school can always give you more on top of the one time $2500 from National Merit as long as it is not consider an official NM scholarship.</p>