<p>OP, if you aren’t completely satisfied with your choices and have energy left to pursue it, you should know that some of the schools with large NMF scholarships are still accepting applications from NMF. Mom2collegekids posted a couple of days ago that Alabama is still open to NMFs.</p>
<p>I have a school in mind, but don’t know if they accept late apps like that. It’s worth a shot if you are interested to contact them. UMN- Twin Cities is the best school for math/physics that gives large automatic merit $$ to NMFs. They do limit it to about 125 per year. They give $11,000 per year plus a separate scholarship that waives the OOS tuition. Plus about $2,000 for experiential, and sometimes you get some extra small scholarship. It covers most of tuition/fees, not quite all. But their rm/bd is MUCH cheaper than Barrett. They have a nice honors program, headed by a physics prof, but it’s not as deluxe as Barrett. </p>
<p>Also, last year UMN added a performance BA music major that is the low credit hour type, only 40-45 hours, so much easier to manage as a double major than the BM or high credit BA many schools have (like ASU- BM is 90 and BA still 78 or something.) We looked at UMN last year for D, and spent time visiting and talking to people in music dept. They have a lot of students who want to double major (actually ‘dual degree’ is the technical term) like this but not as many who want the BM, so it’s a way to keep the music program full of energy. The honors dorm, Middlebrook, is across the street from the music building and it also houses the music/arts kids.</p>
<p>Good luck, whatever you decide.You have some good choices.</p>