Top 20 NMF Schools

Paying for College National Merit Aid
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<p>Here are the official rankings for the entering class of 2012 (current sophomores) for number of NMFs:</p>

<ol>
<li>Chicago- 303</li>
<li>Harvard- 268</li>
<li>USC (CA)- 263</li>
<li>Alabama- 241</li>
<li>Northwestern- 236</li>
<li>WUSTL- 206</li>
<li>Yale- 206</li>
<li>Stanford- 195</li>
<li>Oklahoma- 194</li>
<li>Vanderbilt- 187</li>
<li>Princeton- 181</li>
<li>MIT- 160</li>
<li>Rice- 147</li>
<li>Minnesota- 143</li>
<li>Texas A&M- 136</li>
<li>Florida- 136</li>
<li>UNC- 136</li>
<li>Georgia Tech- 119</li>
<li>Penn- 117</li>
<li>Duke- 112</li>
</ol>

<p>Discuss.</p>

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<p>Those are the number of National Scholars at the schools. The problem is, that while it is true at schools which sponsor all their NMFs that #NMFs = #National Scholars, this is not the case at other schools. Harvard doesn’t sponsor any, so they have 268 NMFs who received corporate or NMSC scholarships. They likely have many more NMFs who are not ‘Scholars.’</p>

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<p>What Celeste said. I would much rather see a list that gives the actual number of NMFs rather than NMSs since that is “artificially” inflated at any school that gives out NM Scholarships.</p>

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<p>I don’t know how you would find those numbers. My D is a NMF at Yale, but there was no way to notify the National Merit organization of where she enrolled. Each university could self report, but they may not even know if students were admitted early and it was not on the application.</p>

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<p>True, that is data that is not currently collected.</p>

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<p>Here’s different sort of list. Not sure what the point is, except it’s fun to arrange numbers, right? Hope I got the numbers right. Feel free to point out errors.</p>

<p>NMSC awards 2500 scholarships each year. In 2012 corporations awarded 1011 scholarships to NMF. This # does not include the ‘special’ corporation scholarships to non-NMF. </p>

<p>3511 scholarships altogether not originating from universities from 2012.
Presumably the 2500, at least, tilted towards better students however NMSC defines them.</p>

<p>Universities NOT sponsoring NMF which enrolled 25+ NMS freshmen in 2012.
79 Brown
49 Cal Tech
33 CMU
91 Columbia
54 Cornell
76 Dartmouth
112 Duke
36 Georgetown
268 Harvard
26 JHU
160 MIT
181 Princeton
195 Stanford
90 UCB
26 UCLA
46 UMichigan
117 UPenn
57 UT-Austin
31 UVa
39 Williams
206 Yale
1972 Total (@ 21 institutions)</p>

<p>One might add in NMS who attended schools which sponsor NMF, but who received their official scholarship from NMSC/corporation.</p>

<p>Universities that sponsor NMF, and which enrolled 25+ NMS freshmen in 2012 who were officially sponsored by NMSC/corporation.
28 GATech
70 NU
43 Rice
33 UAlabama
86 UChicago
29 UMN-TC
35 UNC
34 UOklahoma
35 USC (CA)
50 Vandy
64 WUSTL
473 Total (11 institutions)</p>

<p>32 colleges enrolled 2479/3511 = 70.6% of the non-university scholarship winners. </p>

<p>This is all drawn from the 2012 NMSC Annual Report, which will be replaced by the 2013 report in the next few days on their website, so numbers will change. </p>

<p>One can extrapolate from the report a bit to guess at # of NMF at top schools by using relatively high-ranked schools that do sponsor NMF.</p>

<p>Proportion of NMF freshmen at university who won corporate or NMSC scholarship in 2012:
UChicago- 86/303= 28.4%
NU- 70/236 = 29.7%
WUSTL- 64/206 = 31%
Vandy 50/187= 26.7%</p>

<p>At HPYSM, the number of NMS likely represents at least 30% of their NMF.</p>

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<p>Of course, all these divisions are all kind of arbitrary. If I broke the lists at 20 instead of 25, could add 4 schools- A&M,UF, UIUC, and ASU, for another 92 students and have 36 schools that enrolled 73.2% of NMS who got one of the 3511 scholarships. (Breaking 1st list at 20 doesn’t add any schools to list)</p>

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<p>I think it is just as artificial to only look at those who don’t sponsor awards. That only shows you the schools that attracted the rich and poor NMFs.</p>

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<p>The new list is out – <a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . Does anyone who has fun arranging numbers have time to do new lists . . . and compare and contrast them to 2012’s lists?</p>