@binky66 Checks for the one-time $2500 scholarship will be mailed to the colleges in early September according to a letter we received last month from NMSC.
@chercheur , thank you! I guess we will wait till early September.
Ours was a credit on the invoice I paid at the end of June. I was very happy to see it there!
@binky66 To anyone waiting on the NMSC one-time $2500 scholarship, ours was finally credited today! Hooray! Even though we were expecting it, it’s a relief to finally see it credited!
My son’s first payment (of $10k over four years) came to his university finally on Sept. 12th. They said “early September” so I’m glad it showed up.
DS college sponsored award was received by school on September 12th. Because his merit aid exceeds all direct charges, the overaward is paid out to DS. Good times.
Indeed, 2,500 who make National Merit Scholars without any ties from colleges or parental employers are real winners and it is a very exclusive distinction and they should get more fanfare than 16,000 meeting basic cut off.
@brazos21 They didn’t post scholar list last year, probably there were some privacy issues.
I’m still waiting for my university to receive my corporate-sponsored check. Any insight?
@ski_racer Since NMSC does all the administrative work and mails the checks, I think you should give them a call at (847) 866-5100 and find out when it was mailed. Then you can talk to your school about why it hasn’t been credited yet.
No harm in checking but people are still getting refunds. We had ours reimbursed 6 weeks ago while my son’s roommate got it yesterday.
Does anyone have any information regarding NMF scholarships for University of Arizona and how much they provide for OOS?
@saucegod Click on National Scholars Tuition Award from this link: https://financialaid.arizona.edu/types-of-aid/scholarships/2019-2020-terms-and-conditions
“Non-Arizona National Scholars: the value of the original Arizona Tuition Award + $5,000 National Scholar Award +one-time $1,500 Study Abroad Award for UA Study Abroad program. See “Arizona Tuition Award” for UA merit review and offer details.”
The $5000 National Scholar Award is each year for 4 years. Its a generous package.
My son is a NMF on the full cost of attendance scholarship at USF in Tampa. He loves it. He went there knowing no one and settled right in. It is jumping up the national rankings faster than any school. New dorms. Cafeteria open almost 24 hours a day. Love. Love. Love. My wife and I both went to Big 10 schools so were skeptical initially. I can’t tell you how satisfied we are. They fly the semifinalist and a parent to look for free.
Congratulations and good luck to your son. We are seriously looking at USF as well.
Can you please tell me how your son’s experience was with study abroad, research and class sizes? Did he start in summer or fall semester?
Thank you so much
@USF Bulls We are planning to visit USF next week. What is you son taking at USF and would be interested to know how he decided to go there. Thanks.
@saucegod - ASU parent here - Don’t be afraid to look at the “better” Arizona University. 
My DS is a freshman in Barrett Honors College. He has full tuition (we are OOS) plus travel and research money. The promise the tuition award will increase if tuition does (it always does). So, we pay room and board.
Hi all- are any of you (or your children) studying physics? Just wanting to hear how your freshman year has gone. I’m helping my daughter look for colleges and would like to find a place that’s great at teaching physics to undergrads. Thx
@hm1101 : My son is finishing his freshman year at the University of Buffalo. He’s a Honors college student dual majoring in Physics and Geological Sciences. He also had applied and was accepted to the University of Rochester, RPI, Geneseo, and was waitlisted at Cornell (eventually offered Spring Admit, which he turned down) and Carnegie Mellon. He was rejected from Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Princeton. All of the schools he applied to are considered strong in undergrad physics. At Univ. of Buffalo (very large affordable State school plus plenty of scholarships for my son) the freshman year courses are considering to be weed-out courses, with large classes and hard grading but he got a 4.0 his first semester. He can’t apply to the physics department until the end of this semester but has been given a physics advisor already. If your daughter is thinking about majoring in physics, her grad school will be even more important than her undergrad. If you get a chance on campus tours, ask to speak to a current physics student.