<p>Thank you for your kind words. :)</p>
<p>* The NM materials state that a student can be “offered” only one official NM scholarship, so it is important to keep this in mind when submitting one’s first choice, and not mere semantics. She is correct, of course, in noting that this does not apply to the huge unofficial scholarships some colleges offer.</p>
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<p>Unless I’m wrong on this issue…I still think the word “offered” means accepted/awarded. My son was offered NUMEROUS NMF scholarships with “official NMF merit”…he only accepted ONE and only ONE was awarded.</p>
<p>Students can’t help it if a bunch of schools offer them a NMF scholarship…even the ones with “official” parts. If you apply to several schools that then offer NMF scholarships, you’re not “tied” to the one who happened to send out the offer first. </p>
<p>NMCorp is VERY GOOD about working with you with this whole thing. NMCorp called our home to figure out which offer would benefit my son the best. My son was also offered an official NMF corporate scholarship…so, in the end, he was offered several official school NMF scholarships and one official corporate one. But, he only accepted the corporate one.</p>
<p>What NMCorp means by that statement is that you can’t accept more than one official NMF scholarship. My son accepted the “unoffical part” of Bama’s NMF scholarship (so Bama took away the $1k part that was official), and accepted the OFFICIAL corporate one…because that gave him the most money. NMCorp told us to do it that way on the phone…they called us. </p>
<p>Frankly, I think the schools who offer official NMF merit (with or without non-official) scholarships know the dance. They send out letters offering these NMF scholarships, but the offer isn’t really formal until the student accepts it. </p>
<p>I think if this were a problem, we’d have kids posting that they weren’t being allowed to change their schools after an offer was made.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Bama got an Oklahoma-bound NMF shortly before the May 1st deadline. The student had been offered the UO NMF merit (which includes an official part) and was intending on going to OU. </p>
<p>In April, she heard about Bama’s NMF merit, visited Bama, and changed her mind and got Bama’s NMF scholarship…including the official part.</p>