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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are too quick to use National Merit as a shorthand for smart kids. At our school, the NMSFs are not uniformly the smartest kids in the school and as a result don't all go to Ivies. Increasingly it is more about your high school record than the result of one test.[/quote] NMSF has virtually nothing to do with acceptance at highly selective schools. It's simply a measure of how your PSAT score compares to PSAT scores of others kids in your state. Colleges never see your PSAT score, they evaluate applicants based on SAT I and II, and ACT, scores. There are schools that give very lucrative merit scholarships to NMSF, because they are trying to improve their academic reputation and want to be able to boast about all the NMSFs they enroll (as well as benefit from the boost their SAT averages will get). But not the highly selective ones.[/quote]
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