<p>I'm a national merit finalist, however, the university that I want to attend had a deadline of designating them as my first choice school for a scholarship, which I missed. (February 1st) This was due to the poor advice of my high school guidance counselor, who said that I should wait until I'm a finalist and I'll have plenty of time to choose between schools. So basically I'm out $8,000. Anyway, I get a call from the university I want to attend asking me to designate them as my first choice school. They're not giving me the scholarship.</p>
<p>I'm still very annoyed with them so would there be any benefit to this?</p>
<p>You did get bad advice, since you can change your first choice up until the NMSC deadline. </p>
<p>Why does that school want you to designate them as their first choice if they won’t give you the scholarship? So they can count you as one of their scholars? I think you should tell them that you won’t make that designation unless they come through with the funding.</p>
<p>absolutely agree with momfromme! If they want you to go there then they should honor the scholarship which officially isn’t due to NM until May. If they won’t budge I would check out other schools on the list from NM who will offer similar scholarship (so many schools offer great $)and choose one of those. </p>