<p>I was confused about one point last year when my son was a NMF. Is there a risk in naming school A, that wants to be named by an early date, that they would “award” the student the money and thus take them out of the running for the awards at all their other schools? Wolverine makes a distinction between being “offered” and “awarded” a scholarship, but I was never clear if this was actually under the student’s control. </p>
<p>We were lucky that all of my son’s schools had a late April date to decide by, so he was able to decide where he was going before naming his first choice school. But my friend’s son had one school that insisted on an earlier deadline, and he decided to let that one go rather than risk being “locked in” by being awarded a scholarship by a school that might not end up being his first choice.</p>