I recently learned that I have advanced to finalist standing in the National Merit competition. Should I notify schools I applied to and haven’t heard from yet? There are no scholarships available at these particular schools, so it would not affect any eventual financial aid. I should also add that I made clear that I was a semi-finalist at the time of my application.
It wouldn’t hurt. My son went ahead and did that even to some Ivies…one actually responded back the next day and thanked him for sending it. We didn’t send it to one school where he was accepted EA and gives almost no aid to OOS, plus they mention on their website they no longer support the NMF program or something to that effect that all monies will come directly from NM if you are a NMF…but that’s the only college that went into such detail on that.