<p>Pretty sure A&M’s isn’t a full ride either. I’ve heard $10,000 per year, plus in-state tuition if you’re OOS. Makes it something like $15,000 per year including room and board and fees.</p>
<p>UCincinnati gives full tuition to instate NMF students, and instate tuition to OOS students, PLUS residence hall room cost and a one-time $1500 grant for a computer or travel abroad. Up to 60 of these Cincinnatus Excellence scholarships are awarded. :)</p>
<p>There is a sticky thread at the top of this forum that lists details of scholarship info at schools that give large National Merit scholarships. Check it out. If you find credible info that a listed scholarship has changed, or discover a new one to add, please post there and include links. All the scholarships mentioned in the past few posts are there, accurately.</p>
<p>My daughter received something in the mail from National Merit Corporation yesterday, and won’t show me. :)
We felt that her making finalist was a long shot, but I thought they didn’t notify until Feb.
Does anyone know when they would receive notice as to yes or no?</p>
<p>^ they send out the rejection letters in early jan, we think it was last thursday, people started to get them in the other thread, so that is probably a rejection letter.</p>
<p>That was my thoughts. Thank you.
What other thread?</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1599528-rejection-letters.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1599528-rejection-letters.html</a></p>
<p>My daughter is interested in small, private liberal arts colleges. She is class of 2015, so we are a year off to hear if she is a finalist etc. (she scored very well in Nevada). Most of the schools mentioned in this thread are larger colleges/universities. Is there a list of small liberal arts colleges that give full or almost full scholarships to NMSFs? (I’m new to the website and new to the college search, so sorry if this has been answered somewhere.) Thanks.</p>
<p>We heard good things about Knox College. I think their award is only 20k per year though. Also Wesleyan College (not the Wesleyan University in CT)…it is a very small women’s college in GA. It think it is full tuition. Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus has fewer than 2000 students, I think. They offer full tuition, but it is competitive.
You might have her also consider the larger universities that offer full rides or full tuition but have small honors or scholars departments she could be in so that she would (with some, not all) have a small college feel within a larger university. There are other smaller colleges listed in the big thread of schools, but we were not familiar with them and/or the location did not suit our search. Good Luck.</p>
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<p>All colleges known to give large scholarships for NMF/NMSF status are compiled in the sticky thread at the top of the forum:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16465904-post833.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16465904-post833.html</a></p>
<p>There are only a small number of LACs in the list that give such scholarships, and they are generally lesser known/regarded.</p>
<p>Mtrosemom, check out Juniata College, a small private LAC in PA. They offer full-tuition scholarships to NMFs. It’s not a guaranteed scholarship, though. I believe they offer 4 a year. Juniata is featured in Colleges that Change Lives by Loren Pope. I have no personal knowledge of the school, but researched it quite a bit online and was impressed. Juniata has a reputation for being especially strong in the sciences and having very high med school acceptance rates. Good luck to you and your daughter!</p>
<p>Thanks all. We will add the suggestions to the “look at” list. She wants co-ed and around 2000 students. She has a very good shot at NMF, so that may help some. She’s looked at New England (most tier 1 - too expensive) and the Pacific NW, and we are going to the Southeast (TN, NC, VA) in May. She wants to visit Davidson & Washington & Lee and just getting a feel for if she likes the area or not.</p>
<p>Texas A&M doesn’t offer a guaranteed full ride, but top prospects get a lot more money than what is advertised. My D has loved her experience in the University Honors program. Also, A&M will match other offers from other schools.</p>
<p>University of Evansville is a smaller private school that gives full tuition. (It is in southern Indiana).</p>
<p>For LACs, check out the Paschal-Carter scholarship at Denison - full tuition, competitve and for nmfs only (but not very competitive, we were told). Denison is near Columbus, OH and top 50 in USNWR.</p>
<p>S1 was very similar, except he wanted small research versus LAC. Once he found out more about the Honors programs and many of the big schools, he came to understand that in many ways they are like being in a university within a university and they ‘feel’ smaller than they are. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Does University of Kentucky give all NMF full rides? It says on their site “eligible” but doesn’t give any other criteria. Thanks!</p>
<p>@isaelijohjac, University of Kentucky offers the Patterson Scholarship to all National Merit Finalists that list the university as their top choice. From what I understand, the [Patterson</a> Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen]Patterson”>http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen) provides tuition ([both</a> in-state and out-of-state](<a href=“University of Kentucky Scholarship Package Questions - #8 by RobD - National Merit Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>University of Kentucky Scholarship Package Questions - #8 by RobD - National Merit Scholarships - College Confidential Forums)), room and board, $1000 yearly stipend, $2,000 towards study abroad, and an iPad. My understanding is the Patterson Scholarship is awarded to all NMF (unless of course, the student receives the [Singletary</a> Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen]Singletary”>http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen)).</p>
<p>Honors College admission is not guaranteed for NMF, and the room/board provisions of the Patterson Scholarship are the basic room rate (not the newly built dorms) and basic meal plan. I think for out-of-state students, this scholarship is worth around $122,000 (the website estimates ~$78,000, which I think is in-state tuition). Here’s my analysis: (based on <a href=“Home | Office of the University Registrar”>Home | Office of the University Registrar; and <a href=“Home | Wildcat Living”>Home | Wildcat Living) </p>
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<h2>4-year costs in-state out-of-state</h2>
<p>Tuition $40,440 $84,812<br>
UK NMF scholarship $ 2,000 $ 2,000
$1,000/yr stipend $ 4,000 $ 4,000<br>
Housing/Board $29,184 $29,184 </p>
<h2>Study Abroad $ 2,000 $ 2,000</h2>
<p>TOTAL $77,624 * $121,996
PER YEAR VALUE $19,406 $30,499
- Note this figure corresponds to the estimated value of $78,000 for the Patterson Scholarship on the [url=<a href=“http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen]website[/url”>http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen]website[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Now this does not include the iPad value, mandatory fees, books, class fees, engineering classes fees, registered student organizations, travel expenses, newer dorm costs, additional food/personal items, etc. Still, one of the better deals around, I think. Please correct any errors. </p>
<p>The Patterson also includes a $2,000 college-sponsored official NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>The way I read the webpage, the mandatory fees are $549 per semester, not per year. </p>
<p>I guess these two items basically cancel each other.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply, @celesteroberts. I will update the post since I still can. </p>