<p>Just curious how often this happens.</p>
<p>I was a NMF and didn't get anything (none of the corporate-sponsored ones applied to me, I didn't receive the $2,500 award, and Yale doesn't give NM money, obviously). It was sad, but oh well!</p>
<p>about half</p>
<p>In NMSC’s 2005-06 Annual Report, you will find the following statistics:
There were 16,098 semi-finalists.</p>
<p>Approximately 90% of semifinalists became finalists. (No exact number is given, but this translates into roughly 14,500 finalists.)</p>
<p>There were 8,318 National Merit Scholarships given out:</p>
<p>2,500 sponsored by NMSC itself. (These are the one-time $2500 scholarships.)</p>
<p>1,025 sponsored by corporations. (These are usually reserved for children of employees or otherwise restricted to certain majors or geographic locations.)</p>
<p>4,795 sponsored by individual colleges.</p>
<p>So 57% of the finalists received some money, which means 43% did not.</p>
<p>worried_mom's post is correct. Close to half of NMF will not receive scholarship directly from the NMSC program. However, the NMF status itself will qualify for full ride or substantial amount of merit scholarship from several colleges. In fact some will guarantee the scholarship to all NMF's who attend their school.</p>
<p>what is nmf????</p>
<p>National Merit Finalist.</p>
<p>Erinsdad....thanks.....</p>