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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Pretty sure all these schools offer some form of very competitive academic scholarships for extraordinary students. And none of them are based on a PSAT score. You are spreading nonsense for whatever reason.

The national merit finalist distinction is not the cause of a scholarship at schools such as Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, UVA or Notre Dame. It might be one part of the entire application, but scholarships are awarded for a lot more than that. Whereas some schools like Alabama, UT-Dallas, Tulsa are gunning specifically for students with that award and awarding scholarships accordingly. And I say, great. Good for them.

If national merit finalists are reflective of the academic quality of a college's students, then the only measure that matters is the percentage of students with that distinction. So looking at the list, that would be MIT, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Stanford, USC, Yale, Princeton, Rice, Duke, Emory, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Florida, and UT-Dallas, which are the only schools that have more than 4 percent of students with that distinction.

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Have you found a list that shows how many finalists?

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Something like 90% of finalists become scholars.

Scholars by school starts on p38 of their annual report.

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf?gid=2&pgid=61&sessionid=b24b35da-0cb1-4748-9664-c5d933f196fa&cc=1[/quote]

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