<p>And, assuming the same geographic representation applied to them, Cornell’s corporate-sponsored scholarship recipients would also probably be found to have higher scores than Oklahoma’s NMS recipients on average. Because in order to get the corporate-sponsored NMS scholarship, they had to first make semi-finalist in a state that had a significantly higher Semi-finalist cutoff score than Oklahoma has. Assuming the corporate awards are given to semi-finalists, as the college-sponsored awards are.</p>