The free ride on NMSF was why I went to a Tier 1 state school vs an Ivy or Caltech. And my smaller scholarships did not get deducted from that free ride. What a deal. A lot of schools do this today. There are some public schools that have more total NMSFs than any private school.
Here is a list.
http://excelcollegeprep.com/pdf/scholarships.pdfCool, thanks. If I recall correctly, my NMSF was based on my PSAT scores, not my SAT scores. Is that the way is still goes? I, too, was not told that there was any scholarship possibility based on getting this. It was just a notation next to my name @ graduation. As I recall, my high school had a lot of NMSFs as well.
I only applied to UC schools (University of CA) and was so set on UC Berkeley that I insisted to my mom that I wasn't going to college if I didn't get in there which about gave her a coronary. Fortunately I did get in, but I'm guessing that the reason the scholarship angle wasn't played up @ my high school is b/c none of the UC or Cal State schools are on the list of schools that offer scholarships to NMSFs and most of us were going to in-state public universities.
eta: in looking closer, I do see that some of the Cal State schools are on the list, but I didn't apply to places like Cal State Longbeach. Oh well, something to think about for dd should she do well.
