The art of waiting to name a First Choice School

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Our experience was different than Wolverine’s. Our S sent a copy of his NMF notification letter to all his schools that offered NM scholarships as soon as he got it. However, NONE of them sent him a scholarship offer that included a NM scholarship “assuming” that he would name them as his first choice. (In all cases he got a different (lower) scholarship offer based on his stats or other factors without NMF.) In each case we had to contact the school and confirm exactly what he would be awarded (and what it would replace from the offer he had been sent) IF he named them his top choice and attended.

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<p>Also just clarifying our experience, none of his schools mentioned his NMF status in their initial offers, or volunteered the information about what his scholarship would be if he named them as his first choice. We had to contact each school to clarify that (find out if anything he had already been offered would “stack” with the NMF scholarship, for example.)</p>