<p>Question:</p>
<p>If one receives the $2500 National Merit Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (2500 people) amongst the 8000 scholarships given out through National Merit (both college and corporation sponsored), does that automatically make one ineligible for a college-sponsored scholarship?
Because for me personally, the college-sponsored scholarship would be more substantial than this $2500 one-time scholarship. </p>
<p>Does anyone know?</p>
<p>yes. it makes you ineligible</p>
<p>Woah, I didn't realize that. : /</p>
<p>Has anyone been notified of NMS yet? Not corporate or school sponsored ones, but the one that NMSC gives out.</p>
<p>Me...hence i ask. :P</p>
<p>darkamaranth88
congratulations! when & how were you notified and where are you located?</p>
<p>today
snail mail
grand old peninsula. :P</p>
<p>you're talking about Mich, not hong kong, i guess?</p>
<p>hong kong????
that's a new one, hahahahaha.
good deductive reasoning, i thought people's initial responses would have been florida.</p>
<p>well, mich is closer to chi, whence the letters are mailed...</p>
<p>Only for a college sponsored NM scholarship. Any other college scholarship is fair game. I pretty sure NMS takes it into account.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's what I meant. The thing is, colleges that sponsor NM are usually more generous than a one-time, $2500 scholarship. The perk of this scholarship, however, is that I can take it anywhere I decide to go. It all makes sense now.</p>
<p>Congratulations, dark! Did you have a school listed as your first choice with the NMC?</p>
<p>Oh, wow. I think I wrote my reply yesterday (or was it this morning), and I just got my NMS notification this afternoon! It's definitely great that you can take this money with you to any school you go to, but is it really only a one time sum?</p>
<p>I called National Merit last week because my daughter is a finalist and didn't want to forego the full scholarship available at certain colleges designated as first choice for the 2500. The woman I spoke with said ALL finalists are (were) in the pot for consideration for the 2500, whether or not they had designated a first choice college or corporate sponsor. She emphasized that very few lump sums were given out and that it is a big honor. She also implied, but would not commit to the notion that colleges take receiving this lump sum into consideration, and might offer you something else.
Congratulations and good luck.</p>
<p>I got a corporate sponsored NMS even though my parents don't work for any of the sponsors. It was a pleasant surprise. Took the edge off my horrendously high college expenses for next year. (I'm in Los Angeles.)</p>
<p>yeah, i had a first choice listed, but whether i actually go to said "first choice" is contingent upon the dollar sign. aye. thus is life.</p>
<p>does anyone know if winners are allowed to/should notify colleges now? it says not to tell anyone.... this whole thing has been massively confusing. probably too late to make a difference in admissions now anyways.</p>
<p>it doesn't make you inelgible, you just don't get it. I'll be attending UF with NMS, and if I do recieve an award I still get the same 24k from UF, and my award goes to UF. They supplememnt anything I do (or don't) get to 24k, they're not gonna cut it all off just cause I got an extra 2.5k.</p>
<p>Gatordan has it right. The counselor I talked to from OU told me that if you win the one-time scholarship from NM Corp., the school just subtracts that amount from your package for the first year. You still get the rest of the scholarship.</p>