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[quote=Anonymous][quote]After that, 7500 (that is, half of them) become NMS -- not 2500 that you claimed.[/quote]

NP. But you misunderstood the correct statement in the prior post. Only 2500 students receive scholarships from the National Merit Corporation itself. Some of the others receive them from corporate sponsors--and almost all those corporate sponsors require that the recipients' parents or stepparents work for the corporation. So, if you have the right qualifications, and your parent works for IBM, you may get named a Scholar. Exactly the same qualifications with parents who work as a school teacher and nurse at a local hospital and you won't get a corporate sponsored scholarship. The last batch is sponsored by colleges themselves, and you have to enroll in that particular college to get it. I don't know if it still does, but Carlton College used to enroll the most Scholars, because they sponsored them. If you turn down Carlton for Harvard, you  won't be a Scholar because Harvard doesn't sponsor any.

Add in the unfairness that a kid from a public high school in a poor town in Massachusetts needs a higher score than a kid from St Paul's boarding school (in New Hampshire) to qualify.

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