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[quote=Anonymous]A shockingly low hanging fruit for juniors who have good SAT scores is the National Merit Scholarship commendation. Anything over 1500 SAT can easily get you to become a commended scholar for NMS.

Register for the "Alternate route to PSAT" as soon as your kid is in 11th grade and registration is open (in Sept).   This will allow your kid to use their best SAT score as a proxy for PSAT. If your kid manages to take the actual PSAT then of course PSAT scores will be counted for NMS, but if for any reason they miss taking the PSAT, they can simply use their best SAT scores for PSAT.  Best is that this is whole process after registration is pretty much on auto-pilot.  Only thing you gotta do is send the free score for your best SAT to the NMS folks (code 0085).

What is interesting is that this strategy has many clear advantages over simply taking the PSAT at school
- more flexibility of timing, availability and exam centers. 
- you have to only take only one SAT exam.  It substitutes for both the PSAT and for the 'proof' SAT
- it has no disadvantage of limited number of spots for NMS per state. 
- many more SAT dates are available than the one PSAT date
- you certainly have more time to study for SAT if going for the alternate route 
- filling one simple application form to register for alternate route to PSAT can convert your good SAT scores into a NMS commendation and NMS semi-finalist without any other effort but sending your score to the NMS organization.

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