<p>Look under Financial Aid at the National Merit subforum. There are a couple of long-running, often updated threads about the large scholarships.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html</a>
This is the main thread, but there are others that discuss specific scholarships. If info is known about NMSF money, it is included, but often the situation for NMSF is not clear and you need to contact the school directly to ask. Start with schools on this list. And post what you find out on the thread so others can see.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be a bad idea to move this thread there.</p>
<p>If you want to know who gives out smaller amounts to NMFs, I don’t know if anyone has a list going, but you can start by looking at NMSC’s annual report on their website and scroll to the pages where they list colleges with numbers of sponsored freshman students. Use the first list on page 31 that also includes corporations. The second list, of colleges that enroll NMF scholars, is a bit misleading. If you want to use that list, only look at the 2nd number, the one in parentheses, which is the number of students sponsored by the college. For example Northwestern has 236 scholars, but 169 sponsored by university. The rest have corporate or NMSC awards. Harvard has 268, none sponsored by the college. Then you can check university websites to find out how large the scholarships are and if they are guaranteed or competitive and call/e-mail for more info. Some of them may have large scholarships that haven’t made it onto the scholarship thread yet.</p>
<p>The list in the annual report is just for the small official scholarships of $1,000-2,000 one time or per year. But the big scholarship schools are included there. They typically break out a small amount of the money in a separate category and call it the official scholarship so they get listed. ASU has 97 freshman NMFs. They all get the big scholarship, but 75 of them get it all from ASU, while the other 22 get the small sponsorship from corporation or NMSC and all the rest of it from ASU.</p>
<p>This approach still misses some money. For example, UW-Madison is listed as sponsoring 5 students. They do have a small amount of money to give at most 5 students $1,000-2,000. But they also give up to 60 or so WI resident freshman NMFs a $7,000 one time award. This doesn’t show up in NMSC annual report, I believe because those scholarships are funded with private money.But the annual report is a good place to start your search.</p>