<p>Lassie3 - I should mention that D really didn’t apply for anything at WashU. The NMF was just a given. D was so busy with a sport, playing an instrument, trying to keep her val spot, visiting schools, doing applications, etc., that I told her to not worry about applying. I looked at the odds, considered the number of scholarships available, and the stats of most the kids who are accepted. Even though WE thought she was amazing, at WashU, she was just one of many who have equal or even much more stellar stats and ECs. In the Arts and Sciences, there are maybe 50 scholarships that are significantly larger than the NMF and the RC Byrd she receives. With @ 1,350 freshmen accepting the offer of admission, I figure that was @ 3-4% who actually received one of the scholarships. We read that TONS apply for the scholarships, a few get invited to campus for final consideration, then just a handful get them. I guess that is one thing I regret - D probably should have applied for them all just to see what happened. The worse that could have happened is that she wouldn’t have received one. But as I said, I am not sure when she would have found the time to do the applications!!</p>