<p>I named Emory my top choice school for the $2000 that comes with the National Merit Finalist scholarship that the school provides.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it is only a one time payment of $2000 or $2000/yr?</p>
<p>Also, does it come with the acceptance letter or seperately?</p>
<p>I've already recieved a liberal arts scholarship because I was an Emory Scholars semifinalist, so I recieved my acceptance letter a few months ago, so I'm wondering when I'll recieve notification for the NMF award from Emory.</p>
<p>It is $2000 each year for the 4 years. It is paid directly to Emory, $1,000 per semester. It won’t show up on your financial aid award, and it takes a couple of weeks after the semester starts for it to be credited to your account. I think the letter about the award came separately, but you can check with financial aid if you don’t hear anything in the next couple of weeks. Both of my daughters received the award from Emory, so if you have any other questions about it, I’ll try to answer. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Wait, is the $2000 on top of the possible NM Scholar $2500 too? I don’t think it is. I might’ve misunderstood your post when you said “that comes with”</p>
<p>Okay; I posted that saying it showed up on Wash U and should show up on Emory but then I read the rest of the post about your two daughters and I was like…wait a minute! And edited my post so I don’t look like an idiot haha :)</p>
<p>Well, now I look dumber (talking about my post above this)</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn’t mean the $2500 from the NMSC, only the $2000 from the college. Alright thanks everyone!</p>
<p>I can’t believe my school still hasn’t given me my certificate yet for it though The principal wants to give it to us at one of the last assemblies of the year.</p>
<p>A word of advice on dealing with Emory financial aid and the Merit Scholarship. My daughters also received full tuition scholarships. When the bill comes in, the tuition scholarships are shown as a credit, leaving the housing charges due. The first few times, I paid the balance, minus the $1000 that I (and they) knew was coming. The National Merit money does not automatically credit like the tuition does. They would continue to send me past due notices for that $1000, and in D1’s junior year, they actually disenrolled her from the bschool because of that $1000. When she tried to just pay it, they wouldn’t take her check because they knew it would be paid shortly. She still had to run around and get all her classes back. After that, I switched to monthly billing, since the housing money is still due. After about 6 to 8 weeks, NMS money will show up, the the balance will be reduced. It costs $60 per semester to do it that way, but I have to say the Financial Aid office was very difficult to work with and it has been worth the money to not have to call them. Others may have a different view of the personnel in that particular office, but my dealings with them were very poor. Other than that, Emory has been great and I hope you enjoy the remainder of your senior year!</p>
<p>Wow; you’ve certainly gone through a lot. My parents would’ve just gotten really annoyed by the whole process. I hope I even get the scholarship from NM! </p>
<p>And airegin, the certificate wasn’t that big of a deal…it’s pretty small, clean, and…plain I think you should look forward to being named a scholar.</p>
<p>D recently received the $2500 National Merit Scholar award. She was also admitted to Emory as an ES semi-finalist and received a $15K Liberal Arts Scholarship. We do not qualify for any need-based financial aid.</p>
<p>Based on this thread, it appears that if D were to name Emory as her first choice and attend Emory, she would get $2000 per year. In that case, what happens to the $2500 given by NMSC? Does it go towards the first-year award? Thanks for any insights.</p>
<p>Does Emory subtract the $2000 NM scholarship from its grant, or from its loans?
Ex: W/out the $2000 scholarship, Johnny gets $30,000.00 in grants, and $3,000.00 in loans.
With the scholarship, would Johnny get:</p>
<ol>
<li>$28,000.00 in grants, and $3000.00 in loans or:</li>
<li>$30,000.00 in grants, and $1000.00 in loans?</li>
</ol>
<p>We did not receive grants or loans, but did receive full-tuition scholarship. The NM money was still paid in full and that money was applied to the balance for housing/meal plan/parking. D1 was also an RA, so her room was part of her pay. She still received the NMS full amount. To the best of my knowledge, the $2000 is paid regardless of other financial aid.</p>
<p>We were told by Emory Admissions that our NMF daughter would get $1,000 per year in addition to the one-time $2,500, plus her merit award. Unfortunately, it’s still not competitive with her other top choices.</p>
<p>Did they tell you $1,000 per year or per semester? Their usual award is $2000 per year, but I was wondering if they reduced that to $1000 if you received the one time award. That wouldn’t seem fair. Congrats to your daughter on her award though! (and to 19MB81)</p>
<p>It’s $1,000 per year, gamom2, or so we were told in a recent email (it wasn’t mentioned as part of her aid package). I wish we could make Emory work, it’s D’s first choice and her grandparents and great uncle are alumni, but with another headed to college next year it’s probably beyond our reach. Fortunately, D has other good opportunities.</p>
<p>Thanks, and congrats on your daughter’s wonderful scholarship!</p>
<p>This is too late for D1, but have you considered applying Oxford/Emory for the next one? My daughters were offered the liberal arts scholarship at Emory with grant money making up the rest of the tuition. But Oxford awarded the 4 yr full-tuition. We went with that because we didn’t know if the grant money would continue to make up the difference in tuition for the remaining 3 years. Plus, living expenses at Oxford were a little less than at main campus. Oxford was a wonderful experience for my daughters, and they never regretted the decision. However it works, I’m sure your daughter will enjoy her college years and be successful !</p>
The principal wants to give it to us at one of the last assemblies of the year.</p>
I think you should look forward to being named a scholar.</p>