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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former NMSF myself, I can’t figure out for the life of me why anyone cares about this.[/quote]

Same.  Except I just LOVE boasting about my NMSF days of yore. My colleagues do too.  I can tell. [/quote]

I know - I think we traded congratulations for our past accomplishment at a party recently!

As for the money available, it's a $2500 award for some, money from corps. for their employees' kids (so determined as much by parents) or community, and colleges that, IIRC, tend not to be the top colleges that a person with a NMSF-level score may well get into.[/quote]
You all are probably just being sarcastic, because I’m sure you recognize that lots of parents trying to choose among all these great schools for their children regularly view national merit percentages as one proxy for gauging the academic rigor of different schools and student bodies. [/quote]

I am being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but not entirely.  You might say the NMSF is a proxy for measuring the rigor or a high school. You might be right.  If there is data to show that the PSAT scores are across the board higher among lower and higher income students at a particular high school, I’d be very willing to believe it.  I doubt we have that data, and from what I’ve read, the PSAT and SAT correlate more closely to a student’s wealth than anything else.  After all, there is an entire cottage industry devoted to coaching these tests.[/quote]

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