<p>don’t worry, runi27, you haven’t burned any bridges. The letter you got last spring (and your response) is simply a favor to colleges to help them make contact with that pool of students who earned commended or NMSF status. Dating, but not match-making, if you will. There are schools who want you to indicate that they are your first-choice in order to get the scholarship, but that happens much later in this whole process.</p>