{"id":110,"date":"2012-08-02T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:23:26","slug":"national-merit-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/national-merit-scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"National Merit Scholarship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2>Eligibility<\/h2>\n<p>St. Olaf is proud to sponsor scholarships for National Merit Finalists, and National Hispanic Scholars.\u00a0 More than 1.5 million students enter the annual competition for these scholarships by taking the PSAT\/NMSQT in their junior year.\u00a0 Less than 1% advance to finalist status and St. Olaf is pleased<a id=\"_GoBack\" name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> to recognize the academic talents of these students with a merit scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Olaf National Merit Scholarship award is valued up to $2,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>St. Olaf\u2019s academic rigor and motivated student body make it a good match for National Merit Scholars.\u00a0 St. Olaf routinely enrolls 20-40 Scholars in each class.\u00a0 A listing of how many Scholars enrolled at various colleges and universities this year is available on the National Merit Scholarship Corporation\u2019s website \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmerit.org\/\">nationalmerit.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Look for the most recent Annual Report.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions<\/h3>\n<p>Questions regarding the procedures and deadlines of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) can be directed\u00a0 to NMSC at 1-847-866-5100 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmerit.org\">nationalmerit.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions regarding the St. Olaf scholarships can be directed to Steve Lindley at 507-786-3521 or <a href=\"mailto:lindley@stolaf.edu\">lindley@stolaf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eligibility St. Olaf is proud to sponsor scholarships for National Merit Finalists, and National Hispanic Scholars.\u00a0 More than 1.5 million students enter the annual competition for these scholarships by taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}