<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>