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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only about one thousand students become National Merit Scholars to qualify for National Merit Foundation's scholarship on their personal merit. They can pick any college but still be scholar and get their scholarship.

Most become scholars because they pick colleges or have parent's employer sponsoring scholarships. If they pick non participating elite college, they don't become scholar and stay finalist unless parent's employer is a sponsor.[/quote]

All 3 of my kids were NMF/NMS and it's really no nevermind as far as admission at top tier schools is concern. They all went to state flagship and received significant merit scholarships (probably partially due to NM status) but, other than that plus life long NMF status, it didn't matter much. [/quote]

+1. A kid who got good PSAT scores is almost certainly going to get good SAT or ACT scores. So the test score advantages are already going to be baked into the selection process, regardless of national merit designation. The marginal advantage (on top of good test scores) of being designated a National Merit semifinalist or finalist is going to be small anyway and will more or less disappear when you're talking about very highly ranked schools.

I was happy to be able to brag to my parents that my son was a national merit scholar, because it made them feel good. It also got him a couple thousand bucks a year at a state flagship which is nice but not life changing. [/quote]

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