<p>hi all.. i am a finalist, and had originally put villanova down as my first choice school because it was one of the two schools i applied to that offers NM scholarship money. i received my scholarship offer from nova today, but i have already accepted my offer of admission at harvard. by having nova down as my top choice this whole time, did i miss out on having any chance at corporate scholarships??</p>
<p>If you received any financial aid from Harvard then you probably didn’t lose out on anything. Schools often reduce their aid by whatever NM money you would have gotten.</p>
<p>As for “corporate scholarships”…Unless you have a parent who works at one of the corporations, you wouldn’t have gotten one anyway. Only a tiny number give them to outsiders - and you typically have to major in some specific thing.</p>
<p>Corporate scholarships are not based on who you pick for #1 school.</p>
<p>Since Harvard doesn’t give NM scholarships, you didn’t miss anything.</p>
<p>haha yes i know, harvard is thankfully quite rich and quite generous 
thank you though… i was just hoping maybe i’d be able to make a few more bucks off of NM, every dollar counts!</p>
<p>Nope…you wouldn’t get any extra bucks…it would just reduce Harvard’s aid to you.</p>
<p>I have a similar question – by putting down a first choice college that you end up NOT attending, did that hurt your chances of receiving a NM $2500 scholarship instead? My S received a college scholarship to a college that was his ‘safety’ and is actually going to a school that doesn’t participate. But if he hadn’t indicated a first choice college at all, would he have been more likely to receive the NM money??</p>
<p>Probably not. </p>
<p>And, if your child received at least $2500 in grants from the school he is going to attend, it wouldn’t make any difference anyway. His school just would have reduced his aid by $2500.</p>