<p>Mantori.suzuki, Thanks so much; I know nothing at all about Ole Miss, but certainly am open to helpful direction like this! Thanks so much. </p>
<p>Are you connected with Missisippi in some way?</p>
<p>My son’s a freshman at Ole Miss. We knew nothing about it a year ago, and now we couldn’t be happier.</p>
<p>*will be touring both AU and UA next week–and going to the Auburn-South Carolina game on top of it! *</p>
<p>I’ve forgotten if you’ve mentioned whether Bama’s Honors College has set your son up with additional appts…If not, contact Jami Gates in the Honors College. She’ll arrange meetings with dept heads, tours of the Honors dorms, etc around your campus tour time.</p>
<p>This fall, 125 freshmen NMFs enrolled at Bama. When you add the NMFs from the other school years, the National Achievement scholars and the National Hispanic scholars, there are over 500 national scholars on campus. That’s a lot!</p>
<p>Too bad you won’t be at a Bama game…amazing…101,000 screaming fans and the Million Dollar Band.</p>
<p>My dd is completely committed now to going to Auburn. My husband and I have tried to get her to look at Alabama as well just a little closer (Husband said the campus was wonderful this summer), but she seems sold on the cross-state rival. She’s applied, and I guess that is that. Her school is a bit dismayed that she’s not terribly interested in the HSC’s, but I think our search is finished. We visited some top “15-ers”, but I guess their charms were not enough to overcome the reality of facing 50k+ worth of undergraduate debt. </p>
<p>Another notable college we visited (that also offered a great NMF package) that was really surprising: Oklahoma. Perhaps our expectations were rather low, we really didn’t know what to expect, but wow – great campus; open, friendly and helpful faculty; very nice scholarship (which includes a laptop as well); and impressive honors college. If you don’t mind the midwest (we’re midwesterners, not an issue for us), and you’re looking for a great NMF scholarship, consider visiting this college and the University of Tulsa (another very nice school).</p>
<p>Audellmom, our freshman son is absolutely loving is Auburn experience. We are taking our 2nd son, a NMSF this year, to tour both AU and Auburn later this week. I appreciate your comments about Oklahoma. One of our local students took the NMF full rides this year after touring Oklahoma. He’s an Arab, probably Muslim, and he felt it was a welcoming place. I guess you don’t know until you try new things…</p>
<p>Best wishes, and War Eagle!</p>
<p>pardon the typos!</p>
<p>*We are taking our 2nd son, a NMSF this year, to tour both AU and Auburn later this week. *</p>
<p>*pardon the typos! *</p>
<p>LOL…</p>
<p>Bama is UA… Auburn is AU.</p>
<p>BTW…you can edit your posts for 20 minutes after posting. Hit the blue edit button during that time period.</p>
<p>Yeah, I make big mistakes when I hurry… :)</p>
<p>Audellmom: Our daughter also chose Auburn. After falling in love with Auburn, she refused to look at UA, even though I wanted her to see both campuses to make a more informed decision. In any case, she is at Auburn and couldn’t be happier. She constantly has a smile on her face. She is in the honors program, enjoys her classes and her professors (all of whom are Americans without accents), and has become very involved on campus. She loves it so much that she has applied to be a Camp War Eagle Counselor next summer. I love the fact that since I paid the original acceptance and housing deposits I haven’t had to write a check for anything.</p>
<p>Like your daughter, a number of people seemed surprised that my daughter decided to not attend Duke (she wouldn’t apply to any school north of Duke so the HPY schools were out of the question). We also didn’t want to pay $50,000 a year and with this economy still being shaky I am glad she made the choice she did. I figured if someone really thought my daughter ought to attend Duke then they should pay for it. :)</p>
<p>The big NMF scholarships are awesome! </p>
<p>We visited about 10 campuses including 4 that offered big NMF scholarships. What sold my son on Bama was the Honors College, the Computer-Based Honors program, the Honors Dean, the new science and engineering facilities, and the many, many honors super suites housing that he could be in all 4 years - which wasn’t really offered at the other colleges. </p>
<p>It’s been wonderful that his college education has been nearly free. During the last 2 semesters, he’s even gotten refund checks from the school. Amazing.</p>
<p>Which 4 did the big NMF scholarships??</p>
<p>Alabama, obviously, and then Auburn? Which other two?? I’m sorry, but I wasn’t on these boards much before this past December.</p>
<p>I’ll echo & expand on what Audellmom said above . We too considered many great opportunities. However, NMF scholarships & undergrad debt free won out. On the way to visit OU our son was THRILLED to find a smaller school: University of Tulsa,
( 4,000 students but still Div I.) ranked in the top 100, with excellent opportunities. TU has approximately 300 NMS with one out of 10 undergraduate students at TU being a NMS. They offer about 40 full ride scholarships plus many more nearly full tuition scholarships. So, our son accepted the full ride and he is using his Byrd scholarship for books. He loves the honors program and as a freshman is already participating in computer science research work which he loves. His scholarship can be used for study abroad options too. So, if you are considering a smaller school, you might check into the University of Tulsa.</p>
<p>I’ll echo & expand on what Audellmom said above . We too considered many great opportunities. However, NMF scholarships & undergrad debt free won out. On the way to visit OU our son was THRILLED to find a smaller school: University of Tulsa,
( 4,000 students but still Div I.) ranked in the top 100, with excellent opportunities. TU has approximately 300 NMS with one out of 10 undergraduate students at TU being a NMS. They offer about 40 full ride scholarships plus many more nearly full tuition scholarships. So, our son accepted the full ride and he is using his Byrd scholarship for books. He loves the honors program and as a freshman is already participating in computer science research work which he loves. His scholarship can be used for study abroad options too. So, if you are considering a smaller school, you might check into the University of Tulsa.</p>
<p>*Which 4 did the big NMF scholarships??</p>
<p>Alabama, obviously, and then Auburn? Which other two?? I’m sorry, but I wasn’t on these boards much before this past December. *</p>
<p>Yes… For big NMF scholarships…we visited Bama, Auburn, UCF and Oklahoma …chose Bama</p>
<p>Bama’s and Auburn’s NMF scholarships are similar…tuition, housing, laptop, stipend, study abroad money. </p>
<p>U Okla (they have cut back on their NMF scholarships)</p>
<p>UCF…don’t know if they still have the big NMF</p>
<p>Also considered AzSt, but didn’t visit. They have cut back on their NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>I remember my daughter receiving mailings from some schools in Texas with big scholarships. University of Houston, University of Texas-Dallas. I don’t know how big those schools are, but they were offering close to full rides, if not full-rides.</p>
<p>How has U. of Oklahoma cut back on scholarships for NMFs? (junior S may be interested.)</p>
<p>My son has been at NEU for almost a month now and he absolutely loves it. Loves his professors, roommate, suitemates, dormmates and other NEU friends! Loves his classes, Honors college, his dorm, the dining halls and Boston itself. </p>
<p>He narrowed his list down to American, who offered him a near full-tuition scholarship, and Northeastern, which offered him a full NMF tuition scholarship. We were very lucky to be able to afford both, so he was free to pick.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that American would have been a great experience for him as well but NEU’s co-op program was what nudged them into the top spot for him. He has to do volunteer work (approx 4 hours a week) as part of the scholarship and has found a wonderful match in an organization called Peace through Play. </p>
<p>So far, yes, we are very happy! If anyone has questions about NEU or would like their child to talk to a current student, our family is here. </p>
<p>Go, Huskies!</p>
<p>Re: Post #196: “How has U. of Oklahoma cut back on scholarships for NMFs? (junior S may be interested.)”</p>
<p>OU has not cut back on scholarships for NMFs. This year OU enrolled 222 NMFs.</p>
<p>UCF: I thought that UCF had cut back on its scholarships for NMF and so sent an email asking because it is not spelled out online. Here’s the response I received today from Ryan Woods, NM coordinator at UCF:</p>
<p>The out of state award for a National Merit semifinalist is $36,000 over 4 years. However should you advance to finalist and designate UCF as your 1st choice institution, the award increases to $112,000 over 4 years. This award should cover most of your
room board and tuition for 4 years at UCF.</p>
<p>I think OU has cut back it’s NMF scholarship amounts - at least for OOS students - even though they are still successful at enrolling a lot of NMFs.</p>
<p>OOS NMF at Oklahoma</p>
<p>Oklahoma Academic Scholars Programs $22,000 over 4 years</p>
<p>• $2,750 per semester/$5,500 per year for four years to help offset the costs of fees, books, room & board
• Must maintain a 3.25 cumulative GPA and be enrolled full-time</p>
<p>Non-Resident Tuition Waiver (estimated) $52,500 </p>
<p>• Waives 100% of non-resident tuition </p>
<p>Resident Tuition Waiver $1,000 per semester ($1,000 each fall and spring semester)</p>
<p>• $1,000 each fall and spring semester/$2,000 per year for five years
(amount exceeding $1,000 will be charged to billing account)</p>
<p>National Merit Cash Stipend $5,000 over 4 years</p>
<p>Non-Resident Total…$89,500</p>
<p>It looks like only the “non-resident” portion of tuition is covered…not the “instate portion”. </p>
<p>It looks like only $1k per semester of instate tuition is covered. I think (could be wrong) that that is a decrease from when my son was a NMF. When my son was a NMF, it seemed like the difference between Bama and OU’s NMF scholarship was small…now it seems like there is a bigger difference.</p>
<p>The instate tuition portion is about $8k per year, so an OOS NMF student still has to pay $6k for that part. Others can correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if any of these OU amounts increase if tuition or housing increases??? It looks like the OOS tuition portion might increase, but not the housing portion. And, as instate tuition increases, so would that cost increase.</p>