<p>If you are a finalist, do you receive a letter regardless of whether you won or not? Or do only the winners get a letter?</p>
<p>Semi-finalists are notified in the fall of senior year.</p>
<p>Those who don’t make finalist are notified by letter in Jan of their senior year.</p>
<p>Those who do become finalists are notified in Feb of their senior year. (so if you didn’t get the rejection in January of your senior year, you’ll indirectly know that you made finalist.)</p>
<p>What is your situation?</p>
<p>Only the winners (scholar) get the letter.</p>
<p>Today, my son received the NMSC corporate sponsor scholarship letter. It was dated March 9, 2011. The award is $5,000/year for four years. It is good news for us.</p>
<p>My son is heading to USC.</p>
<p>Good luck to others finalists.</p>
<p>Gongho. If your son is offered the Corp scholarship, he can’t take the USC National Merit Presidential Half Tuition Scholarship. Has he interviewed for one of the other big scholarships?</p>
<p>^^^^ If he is going to University of Southern California (not University of South Carolina), you may want to make sure he is considered for the presidential scholarship which pays half tuition</p>
<p>He will not get the $4,000 which is managed by NMSC but he will get the USC National Merit Presidential Half Tuition Scholarship. Those are two different things.</p>
<p>My son, he is heading to University of Southern California, he will get Presidential Scholarship which is half-tuition. We are living in southern California. My children do not want to go out of the state. They love California. </p>
<p>This is our third corporate sponsor scholarship from NMSC within 4 years. </p>
<p>My elder son took NMSC corporate scholarship and went to Stanford University.
My second son, also received NMSC corporate scholarship and went to UC San Diego.</p>
<p>I would check to see if USC will allow you to keep both, as the Presidential scholarship is not an official NMSC scholarship</p>
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<p>No, all finalists will be informed that they are finalist. NMSC recognizes that some finalists may not get a scholarship due to the fact that their parents do not work for a company that sponsors scholarships, or they go to a school that does not offer scholarships, leaving them eligible for only the NMSC’s own scholarships of which there are only 2500 (about 16% of the finalists). So a student will be recognized as finalist, even if they are not a NM Scholarship winner.</p>
<p>gongho,
at USC your son can receive BOTH $1000 a year from NMF as well as the Presidential Scholarship. My son, who is graduating this year, received both.</p>
<p>Yes, menloparkmom is right. We were just at USC last week to interview for the Presidential. My understanding though is if you take the corporate scholarship, you cannot get the USC half tuition for NMF.</p>
<p>I just wanted anyone else out there who is (hopefully) waiting like we are for a corporate scholarship that I talked to NMSC on Friday. They started mailing out the corporate scholarship notifications on the 9th, but are doing so on a rolling basis. It would not be unlikely to get your notification early next week because of their schedule.</p>
<p>I have called NMSC a number of times over the past 17 months since this whole journey started. They have always been just great. They really try to help and are very pleasant. Don’t hesitate to reach out to them for info if it’s not available her.</p>
<p>Congratulations to gongho! and best wishes to all.</p>
<p>Marie</p>
<p>*My understanding though is if you take the corporate scholarship, you cannot get the USC half tuition for NMF. *</p>
<p>I doubt that is true. I doubt that the entire “half tuition” scholarship is the official NMF scholarship from USC. Probably only a $1k or so is.</p>
<p>“My understanding though is if you take the corporate scholarship, you cannot get the USC half tuition for NMF.”</p>
<p>That is correct.</p>
<p>“I doubt that the entire “half tuition” scholarship is the official NMF scholarship from USC.”
The entire 1/2 tuition scholarship is a THE official College sponsored NMS scholarship. ALL of it is paid for by USC. In addition, USC NMS can also receive up to $1000 per year paid directly by NMSF.
What NMSF states is that students cannot have 2 sponsored NMS scholarships. [ a college scholarship AND a corporate scholarship] Students have to choose 1.</p>
<p>Menloparkmom, NC Mom,</p>
<p>Menloparkmom, I am sorry you have confused me and other parents here.</p>
<p>This is the post from you back in 2008. Take a look at post #26 and #27</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/460393-nmf-vs-corporate-sponsored-sholarship-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/460393-nmf-vs-corporate-sponsored-sholarship-2.html</a></p>
<p>This morning I talked to NMSC and they said once my son acceptted NMSC corporate-sponsor scholarship award, then he will not get the $1000 college award/year from USC managed by NMSC after he admitted to USC in the Fall. However, they will still forward my son name to USC.</p>
<p>As far as the USC National Merit Finalist Presidential Scholarship concern, NMSC said it is NOT managed by them. They do not know anything about it. </p>
<p>The USC financial officer that I talked this morning, also confirm that my son will be eligible to receive USC National Merit Finalist Presidential Scholarship together with the NMSC corporate sponsor scholarship.</p>
<p>That is exactly what I understood from my previous years with my other sons.</p>
<p>So glad you were able to confirm that your understanding was correct and we were incorrect.</p>
<p>“The USC financial officer that I talked this morning, also confirm that my son will be eligible to receive USC National Merit Finalist Presidential Scholarship together with the NMSC corporate sponsor scholarship.”
correct. What I am an saying is your son can receive EITHER the NMSC corporate sponsor scholarship OR the $1000/year NMSF scholarship, IN ADDITION to the USC sponsored National Merit Finalist Presidential Scholarship. So if the corporate scholarship is for more than $4000 then the smart thing would be to accept that one instead of one from NMSF.</p>
<p>@mariepuff:</p>
<p>thanks for the info. do you know when’s the last day we can hear back about receiving a corporate-sponsored scholarship? and do people who don’t receive a scholarship also hear back this month?</p>
<p>Of course, $20,000 corporate sponsor scholarship is much better than $4,000 USC college sponsor scholarship in 4 years. Even if my son later decide not to go to USC, he can bring that corporate scholarship money to any other school that he plans to attend.</p>
<p>@laurapaigetm</p>
<p>NMSC indicated that the last letters would be mailed this Friday, the 18th. Just speculating as to mail delivery, but I would guess if you don’t hear by the 25th, you should call. They did tell me that once the offers are mailed, they are able to discuss them over the phone, so, if you don’t hear soon, you might want to give them a call and find out one way or the other.</p>
<p>Please know that I do wish you all the best.</p>
<p>Marie</p>
<p>thank you! i am a commended student, not a national merit finalist/scholar, and i heard from others that i would be hearing back later for the corporate-sponsored scholarship</p>
<p>My son just got a call from the Nat’l Merit people. They needed an answer to a letter sent to my son on Feb 23 asking for #1 favorite school b/c he was being awarded a transferable scholarship. Would not tell me how much.</p>
<p>Big problem - He has been accepted to 2 schools (neither of which he is thrilled about) and waiting on 2 more (it could be 2 weeks til he hears). They want to know by tomorrow at the latest. They say it is transferable. What if he picks a school he doesn’t get in to or a school would have offered him a bigger scholarship if he picked them as #1?</p>