Putting a school as first-choice on National Merit Finalist?

Radbg74
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:44:00 +0000

I’m a NMF, and I had to designate a school as my “first-choice” since some of the scholarships are school-sponsored. I know a lot of top schools take into account demonstrated interest, and they want students that will actually COME to their school (higher yield rate in order to promote the oh-so important US News and World Report Ranking.) So if I were to put a school, say, Duke, as my first choice for my National Merit Finalist Scholarship, would that have any affect on my application? Also, what do schools see from my National Merit Application, if anything?