<p>Has your "first choice" college to be on the sponsors colleges/universities list in order to receive $2500 if you are one of the scholars?</p>
<p>Got mine today. Georgia.</p>
<p>Also got the letter today in LA</p>
<p>got my letter today. NY.</p>
<p>geek_son finally got his letter. I guess his school is sitting on the certificate until the next awards ceremony.</p>
<p>Hey, congrats to all the Finalists on this thread!</p>
<p>Got it here in NorCal.</p>
<p>Mountain West got it today, though I have to admit I was living under the assumption that I already was one. :o</p>
<p>lolz I checked my mail today and found out I was.</p>
<p>ThisCouldBeHeavn, i also live in cal
whats the cutoff this year??</p>
<p>"My son scored a 206 as a sophomore, I don't think your score is particularly high."</p>
<p>I'm not sure who you were talking to, but that seems a little harsh.</p>
<p>Got mine on Saturday. I sort of expected it with a 228 PSAT and 2340 SAT :P</p>
<p>NM appeal worked! I sent a letter as did school and dd's counselor got letter today and called me at home to tell me! dd got letter also (but I can't open it!) in Ohio.</p>
<p>"My son scored a 206 as a sophomore, I don't think your score is particularly high."</p>
<p>Seriously, though? What a *****y thing to say. Even if you didn't mean it the way it came out, you have shown an incredible lack of tact for an adult.</p>
<p>lingle1226, the $2500 scholarship is completely unrelated to whether your "first choice" school sponsors NM scholarship.</p>
<p>Nobody asked you mombear. This is for information, not unsolicited opinion.</p>
<p>Got my letter last Friday. Gotta say I was very relieved. :)</p>
<p>The cutoff score for CA Semifinalists is 217 (what I got, hence my relief).</p>
<p>Yep. I got my National Merit Finalist letter today (I had a 224 on the PSAT). But out of more than 15,000 people is still a lot of people. They still have to do the scholarship-weeding out. Hopefully I will get scholarships as well. Do any of you know if University of Pennsylvania accepts the National Merit Scholarship?</p>
<p>If you mean the $2500 one, then yes. It should be transferable to most universities in the U.S.</p>
<p>All colleges accept the NM-sponsored and corporate-sponsored scholarships. Not all colleges offer college-sponsored National Merit scholarships.</p>
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<p>At colleges with Ivy-League-like policies (and Penn is in the Ivy League), having an outside scholarship generally reduces the institution's offer of need-based financial aid, although the outside scholarship will usually first be applied to the student contribution expected by that institution's financial aid policy.</p>