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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Harvard: 55% of our undergraduates receive need-based Harvard scholarships.

Are people taking out massive loans or is everyone just actually RICH?[/quote]

Some people have to decline because they can't afford HYSP after they get accepted. UMD scoops up some of these folks with free tuition. [/quote]
Yep! There are a lot of qualified kids at UMD and UVA[/quote]
For some reason UVA doesn't have many national merits, though. So not as many at the very tip top by raw numbers compared to many large state schools.[/quote]

you do realize that a 207 qualifies for NMSF in many states yet a 220 (3-4 missed questions) will not qualify in Virgnia(and other top states packed with smart kids, like NJ, MA) many years? That is like a 1350 qualifying and a 1560 not in others. If UVA and all schools tracked kids PSAT scores above 207, ie the same national cutoff, 2/3 of UVA kids would have it and UVA would have more than almost all state schools. [/quote]
Not true. Semi finalists by state (starting at VA): 
Virginia: 407
Massachusetts: 352
Indiana: 343
Missouri: 330
Tennessee: 319
Washington: 317
Wisconsin: 314
Maryland: 304
Arizona: 289
Minnesota: 288
Colorado: 250
Alabama: 223
Louisiana: 219
Kentucky: 208
South Carolina: 207
Oklahoma: 191
Connecticut: 186
Oregon: 177
etc.

Here are public colleges with fewer national merit semi finalists than Virginia (in their respective states) that enroll more scholars than UVA.

Alabama: 258
Arizona State: 136
Purdue: 116
Maryland: 123 
Oklahoma: 73
Minnesota: 68

UVA: 35

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf?gid=2&pgid=61&sessionid=1a717a62-3bdb-46a5-b1c5-a30ebb3991ef&cc=1[/quote]

Is this all based on a PSAT score from 9th or 10th grade?

Or based also on actual SAT scores?

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