Congratulations @chercheur!
Nothing here either. BAH.
The only thing I see is “application submitted” so I guess ds didn’t get it either. Oh well…
@DiotimaDM , same. In fact, we were told the application was “just a formality” so I’m not even going to look at what she put down on there bc I’ll be covering my eyes. :-SS lol …Without a competitive SAT score, it wasn’t going to happen anyway. Not in our state. 
All the best to the recipients! Well done. =D>
S18 got it also! Since that will be the extent of our financial assistance in tuition, I am extremely grateful to NMSF (and my kiddo).
@DiotimaDM. the larger university scholarships are not NMSC awards. They do not impact becoming a National Merit Scholar. Its one of the 7500 NMSC awards that impacts that.
Nothing on my S’s portal so probably did not get $2500, what about college specific scholarship ? Do we have a chance for that.
He got denied by NW yesterday which was his choice, he is accepted by University of Rochester with 7K in financial aid…if we put Rochester do we lose the 7K ???
Just to confirm: Is the portal log in: osa.nationalmerit.org?
@irishgal1909 Yes
@phemrajani University of Rochester is listed as a College Sponsor of NMSC awards. Not sure what you mean by lose the $7k. I don’t believe their NMF scholarship stacks but it is apparently quite a bit more than $7k.
From the enrollment.rochester.edu site:
“National Merit Scholarship
This scholarship recognizes students who achieve Finalist status with the National Merit Scholarship Program and designate the University of Rochester as their first-choice college.”
Elsewhere on CC it was posted the award is $20k+/yr but you would need to check with admissions/fa office to verify
@ccsouth thanks for the input, will check with admissions /fa office.
NMSC itself does not give 7500 awards. There are about 7500 NM Scholars TOTAL, which includes 2500 NMSC $2500 awards PLUS ~4000 college-sponsored awards PLUS ~1000 corporation-sponsored awards. The awards students are finding out about today, the NMSC corporate $2500 award, accounts for only one third of the total number of NM Scholars.
Edit to add: NMSC will give ~7500 students offers through the NMSC portal, but NMSC itself is only directly paying for 2500 of those scholarships. Some corporation-sponsored students already had their offers in their NMSC portals, and 2500 will get their NMSC-sponsored awards today, and the college-sponsored and remaining corporation-sponsored awards will show up in the NMSC portal later. All 7500 are NM Scholars though.
DD won’t qualify for any of the corporate sponsored awards since we don’t work for a sponsoring company and she is not applying to any schools who grant NMFs scholarships if they are listed as her first choice. When I log in to her portal today, there is nothing. TBH, I’m surprised. Her single SAT as a junior was 1560. She has straight As including many APs. Outstanding ECs (school pres, club pres, etc) and outstanding recs. The one snag is she attends school out of state. That counts against her w many opportunities. NMSC is done state by state so she is like a ship w/o a port. Disappointed. She works very hard in all of her endeavors.
Son received notice of the scholarship on portal today!
Congrats to all getting the good news today!
Nothing on portal for DS. Moving on.
Okay, my son logged on and it was updated for the $2500 ward. Congrats to all!
@traveler98, so what you are saying is, if my daughter got the $2500 (which she did not), then, since she has accepted the NM scholarship from UTD, she would have been richer by $2500 and the title of a National Merit scholar?
Since she did not receive the $2500, she is now just a NM Finalist and not a scholar?
I guess the confusion is whether she is the top 7500 or the bottom 7500. NM is a confusion of National Proportions (NP).
thanks
@iAmACynic, if your D has already been offered and has accepted the UTD NM scholarship package, she will be an NM Scholar. In the UTD scholarship package in her Galaxy portal, did you notice the $375 per semester award? That’s the official NM portion. In a few weeks NMSC will begin posting college-sponsored offers in the student portals and your D (and my S, and anyone else who is getting a college-sponsored award) will go into their NMSC portals to accept that. As I said above, the ~4000 students who receive college-sponsored awards (including your D and my S) are part of the overall total of ~7500 NM Scholars.
If your D were going to a college that does not participate in NM, she would remain NMF and would not be considered NM Scholar (unless she were to receive a corporation-sponsored scholarship, as about ~1000 students do).
Just kind of for curiosity sake, wanted to see if anyone can help me grasp how this will end up working. DS did not get a corporate or one of the $2,500 scholarships. Since he has made Louisville his first choice school, and Louisville has an automatic scholarship for in-state NMF (tuition plus $8k annual stipend), I am assuming he would typically be receiving a college sponsored award from Louisville. I think it is $500 per year.
If this is relevant, from the NM annual report it looks like last year Louisville had 22 NM scholars that chose Louisville. 18 had a college sponsored award, so I assume this means the other 4 received either a $2,500 scholarship or a corporate award through NM.
It would be that simple except he won a competitive mentored scholarship that is considered a higher award and should ensure all costs are covered up to the full Cost of Attendance. Nothing can stack above this under financial aid rules and their over-award policies. The competitive scholarship is funded by an independent charitable foundation. If I read the fine print correctly, it essentially sits on top of whatever scholarship the school offers him. Fills in the gap between the school’s award and the COA basically.
Based on the above, my assumption is he will technically be a NM scholar with a college sponsored award from Louisville. The competitive award will add the little bit extra up the COA, along with a lot of other perks that come with it. Anyone seen this kind of situation before? It’ll be what it will be, just my never ending “need to know how things work” at stake here.
I believe if you receive either a Corporate, an NMSC $2500 or a College Sponsored $500 a year award , you are a “scholar”. At least that has always been my understanding. The difference is Corporate paid, NMSC paid or College paid. If you attend a non sponsoring school and do not have one of the first two then…