<p>Does anyone know what scholarships UCF offers to National Merit Finalist?</p>
<p>anybody anybody</p>
<p>Off the top of my head i cant think of any but im sure there might be. what I do recall tho is that being a National Merit Finalist should automatically get you into the Burnett Honors College which has a lot of benefits, and if you apply before a certain deadline to the Honors College you receive a nice one time scholarship.</p>
<p>This as of a couple years ago:
NMF Semifinalists get:
Guaranteed admission to Burnett Honors with application.
Guaranteed admission to LEAD scholars with application.
Priority registration.
Special Orientation Program.
Guaranteed on-campus housing with application.
SEMIFINALIST : In-state $18,000 scholarship, OOS $36,000 scholarship
FINALISTS who designated UCF as 1st choice by April deadline get
In-state $44,000, OOS $94,000
Each college also gives extra benefits like laptops, paid internships, faculty mentoring and research projects</p>
<p>I could also post more information by friday of next week because my my English class, which is made up of only Burnett Honors College students, has 3 National Merit Finalists so I could ask one of them.</p>
<p>Bumping up this post. UCF was a college of interest to us, and we’re hoping that son’s NMSF status may make it an affordable option. </p>
<p>Can anyone tell us what kind of scholarships/benefits, such as honors college, housing, that UCF offers to NMFs?</p>
<h1>3 and another top 10 student from my d’s class, who are national merit finalists, accepted UCF because of the full rides they received. They also had automatic admittance into the honors college. UCF is very generous with NMF’s. And, my d, who was commended received a Pegasus Gold scholarship and an additional scholarship through the Burnett Honors College. She chose not to go to UCF, however. My s has been in the Burnett Honors College for two years, and he is absolutely thriving there. I cannot say enough positives about that experience. There are several threads on this board relating to the Honors college and honors housing. Just give it a search … :)</h1>
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<p>National Merit finalists get $40,000 in-state and like $106,000 for out-of-state. They divide it up over four years. This should cover at least tuition for out-of-staters; I haven’t calculated the rest of their stats because I’m in-state.</p>
<p>For in-staters, if you have 100% bright futures, you’ll have to pay a small amount of tuition and then you’ve got money leftover to pay for a meal plan and room and board every semester. And then, depending on what housing you choose, what meal plan you choose and how many classes you take per semester you might have a little money left over to put into your savings account or spend.</p>
<p>I know this because I’m a semifinalist and I emailed the UCF national merit scholarship director. He sent me a bunch of info and answered all my questions. Very polite and informative. Name: Ryan Woods. Email: <a href=“mailto:rwoods@mail.ucf.edu”>rwoods@mail.ucf.edu</a></p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. Besides the money, which is clearly the biggest benefit, NMS finalists still get priority registration, a laptop, internships and all that. I encourage you to email the guy. He’ll tell you everything.</p>
<p>Did Ryan Woods say anything about travel abroad? When I completed the online RSVP I thought I read a brief statement about “full funded overseas travel.”</p>
<p>It is also a flat out $10,000 a year whether you live on or off-campus or do they deduct from the scholarship if you live off-campus?</p>
<p>It is $10,000 a year regardless of the situation. It is basically free money. They apply it after all your other scholarships.</p>
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<p>I want to bring this one up again.</p>
<p>The only reference I’ve seen to this “fully funded overseas travel” was in one email.</p>
<p>I ran across this earlier today.</p>
<p>Is this what it was talking about, or was it something different?</p>
<p>[About</a> The President’s Scholars Program](<a href=“http://www.honors.ucf.edu/PresScholar.asp]About”>http://www.honors.ucf.edu/PresScholar.asp)</p>