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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Commended is meaningless.[/quote]

As for the admin not telling students and the news reports up in arms about it, I had to explain to DH how commended means they are NOT a national merit finalist.  It is like saying, congrats!  You came really close!  I still don't understand why this is a thing at all anywhere.  [/quote]

Are you and your DH both that stupid?  It’s like saying someone got a silver medal rather than a gold one. It’s not a participation trophy because it’s reserved to kids still in the top 2-3%.  [/quote]

It's kind of like 4th place. The levels go from Commended to Semi-finalist to Finalist, and lastly, the actual National Merit Scholarship winners.[/quote]

Technically speaking, there's not really much difference between the scholarship winners and the finalists. Corps give them out to students in an area or are tenuously related, colleges will give them to any finalist who attends. Using 2021 data because I'm lazy, the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) has 281 National Merit Scholars, easily dwarfing Harvard's 179 that year. But that's because Alabama gives a scholarship to every National Merit Finalist who attends, automatically converting them to National Merit Scholars; Harvard's number of NMFs is unpublished but it's probably around 540+. [/quote]

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