National Merit Scholars 2007 - Which schools have the most?

College Search & Selection
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<p>UT Austin is a great school. Its scholarship to OOS NMF, howver, cannot compare with some other Texas schools, both public and private.</p>

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<p>Where is the best source of info on college scholarship recruitment of NMS? As a parent, that is oh so appealing, as opposed to a measly $2500 to spend at a $50,000/year+ ivy league-type school. Not everybody can get “need-based” scholarships, even if you are not rich, you know. Those ivies are looking for the rare, exotic fruit, very rich or very poor, nobody from the middle classes!</p>

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<p>bump bump :slight_smile: i’m with Reedsmyth - any good webpages with NM info besides the official site and the Carleton College one? (i think Carleton took it down)</p>

<p>can someone explain to me why the number $2500 NM winners should be the indicator of a good college? to me that means that these smart students weren’t smart enough to look into full tuition/partial tuition school options, or …forgot to list a first-choice school.</p>

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<p>this is an old thread.</p>

<p>The list of scholarships is in the NM forum</p>

<p>[National</a> Merit Scholarships - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/]National”>National Merit Scholarships - College Confidential Forums)</p>

<p>can someone explain to me why the number $2500 NM winners should be the indicator of a good college?</p>

<p>the number of NM winners does NOT just include the 2500 winners…that number includes kids who got corporate and college NMF scholarships as well.</p>

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<p>This is an old thread with old statistics. I was wondering, does anyone have newer numbers? I am especially interested in knowing if UT has been able to maintain the same number of NMS/ Finalists after pulling out of the program? Thanks.</p>

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<p>UT continues to do extremely well at producing National Merit Scholars, even beating out UMich, UCLA, and UVA this year!!</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<ol>
<li>Harvard College: 248</li>
<li>Yale: 194</li>
<li>Princeton: 154</li>
<li>Stanford: 139</li>
<li>Penn: 138</li>
<li>MIT: 128</li>
<li>Duke: 93</li>
<li>Columbia: 88</li>
<li>Brown: 82</li>
<li>Berkeley: 74</li>
<li>Cornell: 69</li>
<li>Vanderbilt: 65</li>
<li>Northwestern: 57</li>
<li>WUSTL: 53
15. UT Austin: 47</li>
</ol>

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<p>Northeastern has 100 of them pushing them above quite a few of the schools you listed. Did you use some ranking to limit the schools?</p>