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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a National Merit Scholarship finalist, my opinion is this is an utterly meaningless metric, other than singling out some of the schools that are willing to buy the attendance of some kids based on a PSAT score from Fall of junior year, factoring in what state they live in (since the selection index varies widely by state) [/quote] I am also the parent of a NMF. My kid got into one of the top (percentage wise) schools on the list. But instead attends a school that “bought” my kids attendance (what a rude comment). Most of the NMF kids my kid goes to school with also got into an ivy or T15 — however, like our family, determined that $350k+ was far too much to pay for undergrad degree. It would be very interesting to see the family income breakdown among NMF at these schools. I’d bet there’s a clear pattern …[/quote]
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