{"id":3981,"date":"2026-03-14T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/national-merit-college-sponsored\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:15:09","slug":"national-merit-college-sponsored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/national-merit-college-sponsored\/","title":{"rendered":"National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of colleges offer scholarships to National Merit Finalists, often covering partial or full tuition for four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Merit Finalist and  enrollment at sponsoring college<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$2,000 to full tuition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real college-funded National Merit awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[351,346,347,349,348,330,345,350],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-scholarships","tag-aid","tag-colleges","tag-education","tag-money","tag-programs","tag-scholarship","tag-schools","tag-tuition-help"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}