<p>So let me see if I have this right.</p>
<p>My D got a call from the NMC today, telling her that she is “being strongly considered for a NM scholarship”, but she has to declare a first choice college. Currently, she is listed as “undecided.” They want to know asap.</p>
<p>Only two of the 7 schools she’s applied to offer NM scholarships Macalester, Carleton). She just got into one of them today (first acceptance – yay! … whew!). It’s a great school, but it is her safety. She won’t hear from the other 6 schools until the end of this week or even next week.</p>
<p>So is the best thing to do to tell NMC that her first choice is one of the 5 schools that doesn’t offer NM money? Is that the way to maintain and protect her options?</p>
<p>Interestingly, Carleton makes it very clear on its website that if you accept the one-time $2500, you forfeit their $2000 your freshman year, but get it each of the three years after that. Macalester is not so clear, in fact says nothing about how they handle scholarships directly from NM. FYI, Macalester gives $5000 per each of four years to its NM scholars, $2000 of which is NM money. ($3000 per year comes from something called the Dewitt Wallace Fund.)</p>
<p>I hope I am explaining this clearly.</p>
<p>Anyway, maybe this is not so straightforward and I should call Macalester? I wouldn’t want her to take a one-time $2500 and lose out on $2000 for each of her later years.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>