<p>If you become a National Merit Scholar Finalist, one of the final 15,000, will the colleges you applied to be automatically notified, or do you need to notify them yourself?</p>
<p>please responses because i have no idea about this</p>
<p>National Merit may send a list to colleges, but it would be better for you to notify the specific colleges in which you are interested.</p>
<p>You need to notify them yourself. My parents called the NMS people and they said that they only notify the colleges about semi-finalists.</p>
<p>I'm sending e-mails with a scanned copy of my "Certificate of Merit" to all of my colleges today, as per my GC's recommendation.</p>
<p>when and how did the finalist notifications come in? i haven't heard anything yet....</p>
<p>insanity90 - did you email all colleges you applied to or only the ones that participate in NMS?</p>
<p>Some colleges want to fax(same as scan and email), some colleges want you to snail mail.</p>
<p>ANM, I just heard yesterday. I got in Ed to a school that doesn't give out NM scholarships. Is it worth letting them know, or does it not matter, given that I'm already in.....</p>
<p>susandryan- I e-mailed them all. I mean, it doesn't hurt. :)</p>
<p>hpg90~does either parent work for a company that sponsors NM scholarships. S1 did not get one from the college he's attending--he got it from H's company. Also the NM foundation itself does give out some scholarship money.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about emailing the colleges I've applied to, but I'm not sure exactly of what to say.</p>