<p>Is it possible to receive the NMF full tuition scholarship and also receive other merit awards such as the Dean's Scholarship? I am unclear from the NU website as to the exact meaning of this language:</p>
<p>"*Northeastern will combine any scholarship(s) which Finalists receive from NMSC with the Northeastern award to total up to full tuition."</p>
<p>Also, is is possible to the get the Net Price Calculator to include the NMF status?</p>
<p>If you get the full tuition scholarship then you can’t receive any other merit aid because it maxes out at full tuition. I’m not sure if you can make the NPC include merit scholarships.</p>
<p>There are a couple of aspects to this…
First, Northeastern will not do something like award you the Dean’s Scholarship and NM.
Second, it does not affect other merit scholarships you get, like from your HS or other competitions; those are untouched.
Third, this particular statement means that if NM actually awards you a scholarship, Northeastern will subtract that amount from the full tuition amount, so the total you receive related to NM will be full tuition. Except they don’t actually do that, in my experience. I receive $2,000 a year from NM in addition to Northeastern’s scholarship, and out of honesty we tried to point out to Northeastern that they were supposed to subtract this amount, but they never did. So for the past 3 years I have been getting an extra $2,000. Hard to complain. But it makes Northeastern’s statement kind of confusing and pointless.</p>
<p>Thank you nanotechnology! Do you think this was just a random error on their part or if they give the $2000 to all NMF?</p>
<p>It varies.</p>
<p>National Merit awarded me a one time $1000 scholarship for being an NMF. It depends entirely on what the NMSC offers you, and is independent from anything Northeastern offers you for being an NMF.</p>
<p>From posts in past years here on CC, some EA students received Dean’s Scholarships which were replaced with full tuition NMF scholarships once the student indicated NU as their first choice. As stated before, max merit aid is full tuition.</p>
<p>my son gets $1,000 a year from NMSC and it is deducted from NU NM scholarship, so that the total is full tuition.</p>
<p>So for your son they actually do deduct it? They still haven’t done that from mine. I wonder what the deal is with that…</p>