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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A ranking of schools that don't specifically give scholarships to NMF students, particularly per capita, might be meaningful.  When listed with schools that are giving scholarships, it isn't very meaningful.[/quote]

+ 1 Took the words right out of my mouth! For instance, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Northeastern do; UVA, Michigan, ND do not. [/quote]

Here is the data from the 2023-2024 year. Looking at the roughly top 50 ranked institutions based on total Merit Scholars, I backed out the scholarships that were given directly from NMSC and then calculated the % of the entering freshman class in 2023-2024 this represented and resorted the order based on this. Note that there is a ~18,000x gradient in this metric in the top 50 (as defined by total scholars). As previous posters have mentioned, the results looking at the data this way are not surprising (although Tulsa is very robust, had not appreciated that).

NMSC %
MIT	9.4%
Harvard	8.8%
Stanford	7.6%
Princeton	7.1%
Duke	6.8%
Yale	6.1%
Penn	5.9%
Rice	5.8%
Brown 	4.6%
Columbia	4.0%
University of Tulsa	3.7%
Northwestern	3.2%
Johns Hopkins	3.0%
Georgia Tech	2.9%
Georgetown	2.7%
Dartmouth	2.3%
Bowdoin	2.2%
Cornell	2.1%
Wash U St Louis	1.9%
Vanderbilt	1.8%
Alabama (Tuscaloosa)	1.3%
USC	1.3%
Michigan	1.2%
UCLA	1.2%
Berkeley	1.2%
UT Austin	1.2%
Florida	1.1%
Case Western Reserve	1.0%
Emory	1.0%
University of Virginia	1.0%
Tufts	0.8%
Purdue	0.4%
UMD	0.4%
Boston University	0.4%
Oklahoma	0.3%
Northeastern	0.3%
Texas A&M	0.3%
University of Georgia	0.3%
UT Dallas	0.2%
Fordham	0.2%
Minnesota	0.2%
University of South Carolina	0.2%
Auburn	0.2%
Arizona	0.2%
UCF	0.1%
UCF	0.1%
USF	0.1%
Michigan State	0.1%
Clemson	0.1%
Indiana	0.1%
Florida State	0.1%
Arizona State	0.1%
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