<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Both Johns Hopkins and Boston University offer scholarship to NMSQT semifinalists. However, BU offers half-tuition scholarships to students with certain academic records. My question is, how hard is it to get this scholarship?</p>
<p>More specifically, since I can only indicate one first-choice college for NMSQT, which should I choose? I already picked Johns Hopkinds but I can change it up until Fed 2006. How generous is Johns Hopkins torwards semifinalists in scholarship, and how hard is it to get it?</p>
<p>Overall, which should I pick as first-college recipients? Johns Hopkins or BU? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>what do you mean how hard is it to get it? the college doesn't decide whether or not you get it, college board does. That said, onlye 1000 of the 16000 finalists don't get it, so odds are in your favor. </p>
<p>If you figure you have a 50/50 shot of going to each college, pick the one that gives more money, if think you're going to one college over another, pick that one. Check with the colleges to find out how much they give, it's usually listed on their website, but I doubt JHU gives more than 2k or so, most of the elite colleges don't give much. BU might give more substantial.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter at this stage what you put down. For schools that guarantee a grant to MNS Finalist, you can designate after you accept in most cases. Check with the individual schools. You can almost certainly change after your acceptances are in hand. NMSC will allow you to more their scholarships anytime up to matriculation.</p>