Scholarships 4 National merit Commended and Nat Merit & Achieve. Semi Finalists

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<p>Lots of people don’t realize, this, but some schools do have scholarships for National Merit Commended students and/or for National Merit and National Achievement semi-finalists.</p>

<p>U Minn.-Morris:
"Semi-Finalists and Commended Scholars named by the National Merit Corporation are eligible for a $4,000 scholarship distributed over four years ($1,000 per year). " <a href=“http://www.mrs.umn.edu/prospective/financial/automatic.html[/url]”>http://www.mrs.umn.edu/prospective/financial/automatic.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Fordham
"Fordham University Presidential, Jesuit and Semifinalist Scholarships
Who is eligible?
Nominees are freshmen graduating from highschool in the top 10% of their class, with SAT scores of minimally 650 Verbal and 650 Math; or semifinalists in the National Merit, National Achievement or Hispanic Recognition competitions. Jesuit Scholarship recipients must also be Jesuit high school graduates…
Full tuition less N.Y.S. Scholarship, Tap, Pell and one-half of aid received from all other sources. Presidential and Jesuit awards also include room (excluding board and fees)
<a href=“http://www.fordham.edu/Admissions/Tuition__Financial_A/Types_of_Financial_A/Fordham_Financial_Ai_2158.html[/url]”>http://www.fordham.edu/Admissions/Tuition__Financial_A/Types_of_Financial_A/Fordham_Financial_Ai_2158.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Eckard College
"The Special Honors Scholarship Program provides fifteen full tuition awards to entering Freshmen who are finalists and semifinalists in the National Merit, National Achievement, and National Hispanic Scholarship Programs. The value of this award is in excess of $17,500 per year, and in excess of $70,000 for four years if the student maintains a 3.0 grade " <a href=“http://www.eckerd.edu/catlas/scholarship_programs/special_honors.html[/url]”>http://www.eckerd.edu/catlas/scholarship_programs/special_honors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Western Kentucky
“National Merit or Achievement Semi- Finalist & 3.0 GPA ACT composite of 28 (or SAT total of 1240) & 3.9 GPA
In-state tuition, double room on campus & book allowances” <a href=“http://physics.wku.edu/newstudents/scholar_univ.html[/url]”>http://physics.wku.edu/newstudents/scholar_univ.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Southwestern University
$500 for National Merit Commended students <a href=“http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ZnGLHa27Oo8J:www.southwestern.edu/admission-finaid/pdfs/2004-05_ScholarshipProgram.pdf+southwestern+college+commended+scholarship+merit&hl=en&ie=UTF-8[/url]”>http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ZnGLHa27Oo8J:www.southwestern.edu/admission-finaid/pdfs/2004-05_ScholarshipProgram.pdf+southwestern+college+commended+scholarship+merit&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Albright College, Pennsylvania and Faulkner U, Ala. give $500 to Commended students</p>

<p>Union College, Nebraska gives 20% tuition scholarships to Commended</p>

<p>St. Olafs gives $1,500 to commended students</p>

<p>I also suggest checking out the colleges listed in this web site because some of the schools also give scholarships to NM Commended and National Achievement semi-finalists. <a href=“http://homepage.mac.com/l_j/secondhome/National_Merit.html[/url]”>http://homepage.mac.com/l_j/secondhome/National_Merit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;