So I’m a semifinalist as of now and pretty sure I’ll be a finalist. I applied to FSU as a safety school that I could get into for free through the benacquisto program thanks to my finalist status if all else fails. However, when I read on their website that naming FSU as the top choice school on your NMSC account is all you had to do for COA & guaranteed admission into their honors college, I stupidly thought the only other thing I had to do was apply through the common app on time. Well, I just got an email saying that their honors college deadline has passed. Will I even be eligible for this scholarship let alone their honors college now? I’m not super stressed since FSU was really low on my list but still.
Benacquisto is a state program. You don’t have to be in the FSU honors college to receive it but you may have received some additional grants or privileges if you had applied to the honors college.
FSU is pretty understanding and may reconsider your application to the honors college if you explain what happened. Worth a try.
Pretty sure all NMF Benacquisto recipients at FSU are auto admitted into the honors college. I would email the honors college admin office about it.