<p>i have a couple of questions about the provost scholarships of full tuition at UIUC. it says on the website that about 30 are given out and to qualify you must be a National Achievement, National Hispanic finalist, or a National Merit Finalist.</p>
<p>first of all, does anyone know if these scholarships have been awarded yet?</p>
<p>and second of all, I've won one of NMSC's $2500 scholarships (making me a National Merit Scholar, not a finalist), so would that make me ineligible for this scholarship at UIUC?</p>
<p>any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
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<p>Of course they’ve been awarded; the deadline to confirm acceptance is in two weeks and the point of offering a scholarship is to get top students to accept. Why would UIUC hand you a free ride after you’ve already signed on for pay?</p>
<p>Now, some awards may be reallocated as those students take other offers. My son will almost certainly turn down his $15k/year merit scholarship and enroll in Brown University instead, where he’ll only need to pay $3k/year after financial aid.</p>
<p>Well, my son committed to Brown and just gave up three different UIUC merit scholarships, the biggest one for $15k/year. Hopefully they will quickly reassign that money to one of you CC folks perhaps still sitting on the fence due to financial issues. Good luck!</p>
<p>LoremIpsum - Do you know that the University reassigns those scholarships? DS is OOS and we were hoping for more scholarship money.</p>
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<p>We got an email back from one of the staff members in regard to a $4500 one-year scholarship. He thanked my son for letting him know early so the money could be awarded to someone else.</p>
<p>I believe, however, that that particular scholarship was only given to a single person. It’s possible that, in those cases where 8 or 10 or 20 scholarships are available, extra scholarships are handed out at the beginning, with the assumption that a couple of the students that receive them will still go elsewhere and not use them.</p>