<p>Okay, so my principal told me last week that I made National Merit Finalist. From what I understand, NMSC will notify the college I designated as my first choice in early March. However, I haven't found anything that says they will notify other colleges. </p>
<p>I've already been accepted to a couple of schools, one of which is my current number one choice: the University of Kansas. But the other ones (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Rochester) are a little trickier to get into, so I think it would be a good idea to let them know--get a little more of an edge on my application, if that's even remotely possible.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how best to tell a university about NMF status?</p>
<p>NMSC only provides notification to 1st choice schools and it is done in a series of reports starting in March. </p>
<p>If you have applied to a school for which your scholarship is predicated on finalist status you should notify them now. I did this for the schools my daughter is considering today, one asked for the letter to be scanned/sent to them and they will re-issue the scholarship offer, the other appreciated the information and issues the scholarship offer only after getting notification from NMSC they are first choice. </p>
<p>If the notification is specific to scholarships you should contact the Fin Aid office. If you are looking to update info for admissions I would think you would contact admissions office to ask if it can be included at this time.</p>
<p>YHP do not sponsor[ offer scholarships] to NMF’s AND they receive tens of thousands of applications from the other NMF’s like yourself, so being a NMF alone wont give you an edge at those 3 U’s.
They only colleges worth contacting at this point are those that do offer scholarships to NMF’s.</p>
<p>My D put together an email to the admissions office (or admissions officer, if she knew who it was) today for every college she applied to (and those that already accepted her) and emailed them all to notify them. It can’t hurt, and might help – either with acceptance, or a bump in merit aid.</p>