Scholarships for NHRP Honorable Mention Finalists?

Paying for College
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<p>I got a letter this week saying that I'm an Honorable Mention Finalist for the National Hispanic Recognition Program. I also recieved my notification that I'm a commended student for National Merit (barely missed the cut off for semi-finalist, but I wouldn't have made finalist even if I did.)</p>

<p>I have good SAT scores (I think my combined score was a 1930) but less than stellar grades (with weights my GPA is a 3.3)</p>

<p>I know a lot of merit-based scholarships are out because of my grades... (and grades were the reason I got honorable mention rather than scholar in the first place)
so I was wondering if anyone knew if colleges gave scholarships for Honorable Mentions.</p>

<p>the two colleges I'm mainly looking at right now are ball state university (which gives a full scholarship to "finalists" which from reading other threads really means scholars)
and Indiana University (which I'm not too optimistic about because their website only says they give people recognized through NHRP 1000 dollars a year)</p>

<p>My highschool knows absolutely nothing about any of this. My counselor didn't know what NHRP was before I told him about it, and the college counselor had heard of it but that was the extent of her knowledge.</p>

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<p>When I was researching scholarships for my daughter, I'm 95% sure I saw one school (yes, only one) that offered scholarships for Honorable Mention Finalists but unfortunately I deleted it from my spreadsheet because it wasn't a school she was interested in attending. So I want to say that there aren't many. I've looked at hundreds of college websites searching for NHRP scholarships.</p>

<p>You might just want to wait and see if any schools contact you; I think the list goes out to schools in October.</p>