How much is Northeastern National Merit Scholarship?

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How much did you receive for the National Merit Scholarship or the National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholarship, per semester?

Now that it says “a competitive scholarship”, what is the maximum?

Can they change it to increase the award amount, and if so, then how should one go about doing this?

Thanks!!!

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My daughter received 17,500 per semester for NMF.

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It appears that this year the NMF merit scholarship is a maximim of $35,000/year or $17,500/semester. The size of the scholarship is not negotiable.

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This is interesting to hear

for context, I received 20k per semester → 40k per year

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@collegeguyinusa Was yours NMF scholarship or other merit (Deans?) or just need based aid?

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@collegeguyinusa was the 20k per semester just for NMF or did it include financial aid?

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@kmmord That poster changes the amount every time he posts. The NMF scholarship for next year appears to be $35,000/year max.

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Nope, not changing anything.

EXCLUDING financial aid…
I received 40k per year in just NMF

I hope we can all be understanding that I am new to college confidential and I may have worded what I said confusingly in the past

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Here is what I learned - NMF scholarship itself is worth $5000/year. If you are already awarded another scholarship like Dean scholarship for $X, they will add 5000 to it and award $(X+5000) as NMF scholarship.

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@tnknes The scholarship is more than 5K, it just does not stack with other scholarships so you only get the largest one. So if the NMF scholarship was 30K but you had a 25K honors scholarship, then yes the difference would be 5K, but that is not true for all NMF cases. The amount historically has been up to 30K but unclear on what makes them not all the same value

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@PengsPhils I don’t know about the past, but this year, here is the policy of NorthEastern: If a NMF applicant did not get any other scholarship, NEU will give $5000 as NMF scholarship. If he/she already qualified for another scholarship, NEU will bump it by $5000. Either way, the value of NMF scholarship is $5000 only. This is the reason why we see different values of “NMF scholarships” posted here.

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@tnknes Is that policy somewhere on the website?

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@TomSrOfBoston No. This is what we were told (via Email) when we inquired about the NMF scholarship

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