National Merit Scholarship

<p>Yeah, yeah, no one ever said life was fair. But does that mean we all need to ignore what is unfair and accept it with a smile? I'm not that noble. As for the National Achievement Program, that is race-based which some might say makes it inherently unfair--an issue that is already being discussed in the AA thread, so I'm not going to touch it here. But within the non-minority scholarship programs, why should lower-scoring students receive scholarships when there remain higher-scoring students who have not been rewarded?</p>

<p>I have to add to HImoms list--University of Cincinnati, which offers in-state tuition, room & board, & $1500 for computer or study abroad expenses to NM finalists. They just started this year so are not on most lists.</p>

<p>There are some schools which will award EVERYONE with specified credentitals merit scholarships, listed in sites I posted above on this thread or others. Part of whether a student gets a merit award depends on which school the student wants to attend. Some schools don't give ANY merit awards, while some only give need-based merit awards. Each scholarship program has the right to set its own rules, whether folks like it or not. Schools have different rules for their awards as well; some of the rules are set by the folks who have donated funds for the scholarships.</p>

<p>so, just as an update:</p>

<p>all the $2500 nmsf scholarships (from nms themselves) were handed out in each state?</p>

<p>what about corporate scholarships?</p>

<p>check this site...
it may answer your questions:
<a href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=9krt9ppoe5efj?tname=national-merit-scholarship-corporation&curtab=2222_1&hl=national&hl=merit&hl=scholarship&hl=program&sbid=lc05a%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=9krt9ppoe5efj?tname=national-merit-scholarship-corporation&curtab=2222_1&hl=national&hl=merit&hl=scholarship&hl=program&sbid=lc05a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>yay just got a college-sponsored one today :)</p>

<p>me too!</p>

<p>total value additional 4k :)</p>

<p>i'm really glad i made a decision to go to my first-choice NM school</p>

<p>The school my son chose has given him a 1/2 tuition scholarship for 4 years. They also said they may give him an extra $1000/year--I still need written confirmation about this & suspect it will come once NM lets them know they've received his official notification of son's 1st choice school. Today, he got an additional $2500/year for 4 years from the school of engineering! As parents, we're very happy that the cost of his school is going down instead of up!</p>