<p>My son is a NMSF who has already received a very generous scholarship offer from Pitt. What I am wondering about is if Pitt designates part of the scholarship($1,000) so that instead of being a National Merit Finalist; he would be designated a National Merit Scholar. Even better would be if anyone knows if Pitt gives $1000 or so scholarships to National Merit Finalist on top of their previous offer.</p>
<p>My daughter was a NMF, and to my knowledge she didn’t get anything extra on top of the full-tuition scholarship she was given.</p>
<p>Pitt only sponsored three of its own Merit Scholar winners in 2010. The other 25 National Merit and Achievement scholars that attended Pitt were awarded from outside organizations.</p>
<p>My daughter is a national merit semifinalist and hopefully will get to finalist standing. I enquired admissions office according to them they only offer $1000 for NMF and that to only 3 students.</p>
<p>That’s not a lot of money, but if the student also does well on the SAT or ACT, which is what one would expect, that would put him or her in the running for a full-tuition scholarship at Pitt. And that is a lot of money.</p>
<p>My daughter is a NMS and her scholarship is through a corporate sponsor. She did not designate Pitt as her first choice until late in the game, but it wouldn’t have mattered because she would not have received both NM scholarships anyway.</p>
<p>This does not exactly answer the original question, but my daughter receives the full tuition scholarship from Pitt and the NM money arrives each semester in a separate check to Pitt (after the semester has started and other bills have been paid) that Pitt then deposits in DD’s bank account.</p>