<p>I'm looking ahead a little, regarding my highschool junior. We expect he'll make national merit finalist (which his older brother also did, so we're very familiar with that whole thing). For financial reasons, he'll probably end up at a college that gives great schol's to NMF's, which often is full tuition for 4 years.
Our son (the junior) is strongly considering pharmacy, which, at all the schools he has looked at, is 2 years of pre-pharm followed by 4 years of pharmacy school, resulting in a PharmD.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how a 4 year tuition scholarship would work if the 3rd and 4th year tuition is not undergraduate rate? I know I could ask the schools directly, but I don't want to sound arrogant by saying I expect him to become NMF. So I am hoping someone here has been through something like this.</p>
<p>You do have to ask the schools specifically. You don't need to identify yourself, and you don't sound a bit arrogant to me, but very humble. I do know that at CMU, for instance, students in a 5 year program like architechture get that 5th year paid as well when they get one of their merit scholarships, but some awards do have fixed dollar amounts, and they cover only those amounts. That is why you need to check each porgram. </p>
<p>Have you looked at the list of schools that give full tuiton to NMFs? There aren't as many as I would have thought. A great shame. I was a NMF back in my day, and the list was much, much longer. You will need to get an overlap between the list and pharmacy programs, to come up with some schools that fit your ciriteria. Some competitive programs at states school (actually at the privates too), are very stingy with scholarships because they just don't need to give them out to attract the kids. They use the money for programs and dept that need the boost. That is why you have to check it out specifically.</p>
<p>Dolce, if you find out anything I'd like to know, also. My son will finish high school with his AA degree. He can then transfer to a state college for two years and get his four-year-degree. He also has a chance (I hope) of making National Merit. I had not considered your question before. I'd like to know more.</p>