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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best deal at Alabama is the National Merit Finalists package, which requires selecting Alabama as a first choice with the College Board. This is a true "full ride" plus annual stipend and is the reason why Alabama has one of the largest concentrations of National Merit Scholars in the country.  The $28,000 scholarship doesn't even cover the full cost of OOS tuition, so it is far from a "full ride."  "Full ride" means that tuition, room, and board are covered.  "Full tuition" means you don't pay tuition. https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/nationalscholars/[/quote]

[b]Oklahoma does this better.[/b][/quote]

I believe that Oklahoma used to have more National Merit Finalists than Alabama, but this is no longer the case.  I'm attaching the 2018-2019 National Merit Report, the most recent version that I could find.

270 NM Scholars - U of Florida
265 NM Scholars - USC
258 NM Scholars - Alabama (Tuscaloosa)
244 NM Scholars - Northwestern
207 NM Scholars - Harvard

Way down the list is Univ of Oklahoma with 87 NM Scholars

Look at p. 40 of the document (or page 38, depending upon how it's numbered)

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf?gid=2&pgid=61&sessionid=68d499bc-c1d6-4661-917f-f927c8047bb0&cc=1[/quote]

Hmm, something strange must have happened in 2017 - look at the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 lists here and the drop off is substantial.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program

But I was talking about the substance of the scholarship itself, and upon investigation I was wrong.  When I went there it was significantly more generous than Alabama's is as described at the top link, but looking it up for incoming students now it has changed.  Now it's not even a full ride; I got a full ride plus a check back at the bursar ever semester that covered off-campus housing.  I wonder if that change was in 2016/17 and that's what cost them the pole position?[/quote]

It looks like Alabama now covers full tuition, full room, and another $4000/year, which is enough to cover almost all of the board/food rate.  That means that $800 for "fees", $800 for food, and books are left uncovered.  A pretty good deal, but not as nice as Banneker Key at UMD!

https://scholarships.ua.eandu/freshman/nationalscholars/[/quote]
In VA and MD a score of 221 is required for NMF.  In some states it is 209.  In much of the south 212 will do.  Tons of kids around here scored above that.[/quote]

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